Paul Krugman On Stuff

The thing that strikes me is that this administration just keeps on making the same mistake. Again and again, policy is predicated on the notion that Republicans will act reasonably; again and again, they don’t. And yet Obama and company never seem to learn.

Is it too early to start drinking?
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/the-fatal-delusion/

Sometimes it looks as if the Europeans and the Americans are in a contest to see who can do the most to mess up an economy that should be very strong. Today, surprisingly, the Europeans seem to have won a round.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/guess-whos-tanking/

No matter how badly Republicans behave, they don’t draw condemnation from the Very Serious People. All you get is tut-tutting about how politics is awful, and if only we had a third party to install Mike Bloomberg as dictator president all would be well.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/clive-crook-is-drowning-america/