Politicians only address symptoms when it's the system we need to fix

The late deflation of 2008 will turn into the great inflation of 2009

We can raise wages and reduce rent by avoiding the under-use of land, moving the workers back to more productive land

Ineffective public works are not primarily a way to end the recession, but a political payback to special interests

The Democrats promise change, but the changes will be minor alterations within the statist status quo

Free banking provides a stable and flexible supply of money, and allows the natural rate of interest to do its job of keeping out economy stable

The social cost of the tax that pays for the subsidy is greater than the gain to the buyers, because the extra buyers are able to to buy it at less than the market price.

Government policy can be either market enhancing, such as by penalizing theft, or market hampering, such as by taxing human action.

Creating money not based on gold, manipulation and inflation rather than the natural interest rate, and land-value subsidies, all skew and distort prices and profits.

As long as we punish labor with taxes and restrictions, and reward land speculators with subsidies, we will always have periodic economic booms and crashes

Unfortunately, Krugman has used his forum to promote the status-quo big-government welfare-state programs that have been the problem rather than the solution.

Government is not allowing prices and profits to do their economic jobs, and further interventions will just make the problem that much worse in the long run.

Any plan that bails out banks and mortgages is going to leave out those who have been dutifully paying their mortgage payments, or fully own their homes

California is broke but won’t go bankrupt

What can happen when we borrow trillions to pay interest

The plain truth is that nobody really has the experience needed to be the president of the USA

A list of the winners and losers from the world of economic theory

A song about the Russian invasion of neighboring Georgia

The government's propping-up of the economy with borrowed money will cost us all later, as it increases the federal debt and delays the economic adjustments needed for the recovery

The real reason for favors to mortgage holders