The Daily Ticker Writes: Krugman Overboard! Says Economic Policy a ‘Horrifying Failure’
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues in his new editorial that U.S. economic policy over the last five years has been “an astonishing, horrifying failure.” Krugman, a long-time critic of the Obama Administration’s stimulus efforts, writes that the U.S. government should have spent three times the amount of money it did to get the economy back on its feet:
“…if the U.S. government had actually been able and willing to do what textbook macroeconomics says it should have done — namely, make a big enough push for job creation to offset the effects of the financial crunch and the housing bust, postponing fiscal austerity and tax increases until the private sector was ready to take up the slack…we would be a richer nation, with a brighter future — not a nation where millions of discouraged Americans have probably dropped permanently out of the labor force, where millions of young Americans have probably seen their lifetime career prospects permanently damaged, where cuts in public investment have inflicted long-term damage on our infrastructure and our educational system.”
There you go. These are the idiots at the top of the US Economic Policy food chain.
“An astonishing, horrifying failure, the US Government should have spent 3 times the amount of money it did to get the economy back on track”
They are talking about an additional $3 Trillion in stimulus. WOW!!!. I am beyond speechless. I am not a big fan of either Bush or Obama administrations and what they did during the 2007-2009 meltdown. In fact, I am a big proponent that they should have left the market alone and let a lot of those companies fail instead. That would have removed economic excesses out of the system a lot faster and we would now be in true economic recovery instead of this artificial credit induced one.
So, these Keynesian clowns believe that throwing more money at the problem would have fixed everything and brought prosperity to the US Economy? I am starting to think that they don’t even understand basic math. Providing more stimulus here is equivalent to giving Lamar Odom a kilo of coke and saying “Go and shoot it all up at once. It will fix you right up.”
With economic leadership like this, America has no chance of improving any time soon. A lot of economic pain is just around the corner.
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At least Prof. Krugman has theories, models, and data to make an argument for what he believes should be done. You have what, name calling? I’m not impressed.
Hi John,
You are absolutely right. Perhaps name calling is not an appropriate thing to do here, but it does anger me when someone of Mr. Krugman’s statue issues economic prescription that basically destroys the US Economy and any chance for its recovery. You do not need theories, models or data in this case. All you need is common sense. You cannot tell me that any model will show that maxing out your credit cards, spending all of your savings and then leveraging/spending all of your assets is good for your financial health. Well, that is exactly what Mr. Krugman is proposing, only on a massive scale that will hurt everyone.
I do appreciate your comment. Thank you. Alex