Paul Krugman

Citing unnamed sources, news outlets reported Thursday evening that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner might leave the Obama administration soon. In response to the rumors, Geithner insisted, "I live for this work.... I'm going to be doing it for the foreseeable future."

The Fed's decision to allow big banks to pay sharply higher dividends makes no sense, and not just because the results of the so-called "stress tests" are secret. Based on facts that are public knowledge, the banks are actually insolvent, and in danger of sinking much further.

Thanks to PolitiFact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, it's possible to see which political pundits are sticking to the truth and which are making it up. George Will gets high marks; Glenn Beck, not so much.

The academic tussle over stimulus spending is a sign that the Establishment has run out of ideas about how to turn around a limping economy. America needs effective policy responses now -- not a raging battle in ivory towers.

It must suck to be Paul Krugman. I'm sure he'd rather not be the guy who figured out our economy is actually in a depression. Regarding the debate about whether Washington should cut spending or invest in job creation, he had this ray of sunshine: "...who will pay the price for this triumph of...

Nobel Prize-winner economist Paul Krugman says cutting off the government's stimulus programs too soon will plunge us back into recession. But some economists fear that the cure he proposes will lead us to the same place.

The recession is officially over but the misery remains. At least, that's the view of 80 percent of the 52 private economists surveyed by Blue Chip Economic Indicators. They expect gross domestic product to rise at a 3 percent annual rate in the third quarter and a 2.4 percent rate in the fourth...

For journalists in a slow news cycle, the impulse to sort, rank, and list people, places, and things comes as naturally as breathing. The fact that lists like these often have no point doesn't make them any less compelling or compulsively readable. Still, one exceptionally odd new list attempts to...

To borrow a phrases from the late, great Jimi Hendrix, wrap your mind around this one: would you root for an "irresponsible" Fed? PIMCO's Managing Director Paul McCulley is doing exactly that. McCulley, in a PIMCO commentary, said that, if the U.S. economic recovery does not begin as expected in...

Does Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman need to find a new rhetorical flourish for his New York Times columns and stop abusing Barack Obama's long-past-trite three-word campaign slogan already? Yes, he does. After all, we still have at least three and a half years of the Obama...