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October 26 2009

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Posted 2010-01-18 by francine verbarg

Mr. Krugman, I read with disbelief your assertion that President Obama hasn't blamed the previous administration enough for the issues he has faced this last year. Are you kidding???? Not only has he blamed the Bush years so many times I've lost count for all his troubles, he has gone abroad and blamed America in general. Honestly, a Nobel winner and you can not bring yourself to be honest about the facts. Perhaps if you read publications other than your Obama fan club drivel rag you might become enlightened. You are but one reason I will not pay a penny for the New York Times or any other newspaper that can not report the facts. Let me be clear, before you yell "right wing, tea party loony" I am a former democrat.

Posted 2010-02-11 by Mark

I ask you. Can a person be taken seriously when they base their opinion purely on party affiliation? That person would be you. Everything you criticized Bush for, you praise Obama for doing more of the same on a larger scale. Therefore your opinion carries very little weight. But don't pay any attention to me. I never went to college and live within my means.

Posted 2010-02-11 by Mark

Actually what proves how little weight your opinion carries is the few comments on your web page. My two comments cover two thirds of the total. Ouch!

Posted 2010-02-11 by Mark

Even Olberman gets more action than this. But thats like saying a snow ball is warmer than an ice cube.

Posted 2010-02-11 by George

What makes that idiot in the White House the complete total scumbag that he is???

Posted 2010-02-13 by Deb

I agree with Krugman that the Bush Administration has not been held accountable. Yes, Obama has said some things that point the finger of blame at the Bush Administration, but nothing more than that has been done. There should be investigations and convictions.

Posted 2010-02-19 by Bill

Re California Death Spiral: Interesting columntoday on the death spiral that results from healthy individuals fleeing an insurance pool. The proposal to create a mandatory nationwide risk pool to avoid local death spirals will undoubtedly succeed in preventing such death spirals. But the cost would be contributing to a more comprehensive death spiral, that of the entire national economy. High insurance prices drive out the healthy policyholders because they only want to subsidize the unhealthy to a certain extent, not at the cost of their own economic well-being. When you have mandatory national insurance, subsidized for the less productive by high, redistributive taxes, you drive people out of the insurance pool which you have now enlarged to include the production pool and the tax-paying pool. You collect fewer taxes to to fund your insurance program and to redistribute to your non-taxpayers, and soon your government is running huge deficits to pay for the benefits you have promised. Wait, that is where we are now. Perhaps the intent of this proposal is to conceal the health insurance death spiral in the broader, slower death spiral of a government-managed economy. The East Bloc erected the Iron Curtain to keep people in the government-managed "risk pool." I guess the Iron Curtain for American liberals is the likelihood that there is still nowhere else to which most Americans would care to escape.

Posted 2010-02-22 by braham

Hello It is not a comment, it is a question, hoping this will give me an insightful idea to my thesis: What U.S. can benefit from US$ as reserve currency? Is there really a petrodollar system that is advantageous to US? Braham Mahmoud from Algeria