Paul Krugman Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Cutting, Long

  "Actually, Krugman Was A Huge Advocate Of The Housing Boom" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. June 17, 2009.

• Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader.

  Paul Krugman

  Running, Silly, Book

• Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.

  Paul Krugman

  Giving, Advice, Sometimes

  "The Beatings Must Continue" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. April 30, 2013.

• What Republicans have actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, 'Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy'?

  Paul Krugman

  People, Giving, President

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