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New York Times (NYT) columnist Paul Krugman (pictured), an economist by training, an Ivy League academic by profession, and no stranger to bold proposals, has offered another big idea, recommending that the U.S. Federal Reserve double its already record-high balance sheet. Krugman wants the Fed...

Well, it's official. It looks like technical analysis to predict stocks is useless. _______________ Uber-shortseller Bill Fleckenstein wonders if the strength in technology is an illusion. _______________ John Hussman, mutual fund manager extraordinaire, thinks the market has never been this...

Princeton professor Paul Krugman won the Nobel prize last year for his work in global trade theory. But thanks to his work as a New York Times columnist, he is getting far more attention for his public pronouncements than his elegant equations. As an expert on the matter, his latest remarks on...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman may not be "Dr. Doom," but like many of his colleagues he has a pessimistic view of the economy. In a speech Wednesday in Slovenia, the New York Times columnist offered a dire assessment of the U.S. economy, predicting that unemployment will peak in 2011...

Paul Krugman thinks the foundering economy may right itself this summer, he said in a speech today in London. Evidently, investors agree. Not long after the Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist made his prediction, stocks surged. "I would not be surprised if the official end of the U.S....

Whether you love him or hate him, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is getting dissed in a popular YouTube video that is making the rounds. It was written and sung by Jonathan Mann. It praises New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics last year. Here's the...