Portugal is not looking good: interest rates where Greece was only a few weeks ago.
I really really hope the ECB staff are huddling right now, nerving themselves up to do some serious quantitative easing. Otherwise Anno Domini 2010 is shaping up to be Anno Domino instead.
Paul Krugman is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times.
How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And, most of all, how do we free ourselves? A call-to-arms from Paul Krugman.
Some links to stuff I’ve written bearing on macroeconomic policy. Read all of them, and you’ll have a good sense of where I’m coming from.
Mitt Romney says he has a plan that would create millions of jobs. It’s a five-point plan to nowhere.
Despite what Mitt Romney says, the lack of health insurance does kill people.
Politically good things may be about to happen to very bad ideas.
The data show an improving economy, and that’s what the right wing can’t handle.
Mitt Romney’s claim that pre-existing conditions are covered under his health plan was his biggest of many misleading statements in Wednesday’s debate.
Reeling from the crisis, Spanish protesters turn to a symbol of the Second Republic and the democratic promise of that era. Continue reading →
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