The War in Iraq and the American Economy
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- New York Times columnist and Princeton University Economics professor Paul Krugman visits UC Berkeley to discuss the war on Iraq and the American economy. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents" [10/2003] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 8192]
Paul rules!!!
It is so funny how he always talks in a nervous voice. After years of being on TV and radio 7 days a week you would think Paul would smooth his voice over. I like his rational approach, which is rare these days.
That's true, and actually Krugman admits this in one of his latest columns. However, the economic gains from war are usually short-run gains.
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Thumbs up for impatient people like me who don't usually read the whole description :)
indeed history doesnt repeat its self but similar events occur such as the rise of an empire the pinnacle of its power then the down fall
@UFCextra What are you, 12? What does your post have to do with the content of the speech?
The point of Paul's speech is that the justification for the Bush tax cuts were constantly shifting, as was the justification of the invasion of Iraq. These are facts that can be easily vetted.
And if the justifications are false, what are the *real* reasons? Any rational person should be asking this question.
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Paul Paul Paul
1. So what if the marketing changes, the goal is the same and there are many reasons to desire a given policy. The marketing should be the afterthought.
2. Of course "most of the tax cut" will go to the people making a ton of money and paying tons of taxes if you look at the gross number, instead of the tax RATE change, which is more informative.
3. otherwise, great speech
Professor Krugman, would you please publish ur newest paper on this global financial crisis so we can skip ur lot of babbling stuff and just focus on the economic model u proposed to explain this phenomenon, the model can describe it better I think..Thank you
TruthForYouToo,
the fallacy of war helping the economy is similar to TEMPORARILY raise in employment when inflation is higher...
it's only temporary...war never helps the economy in the long term....just remember that
@8data trade yes, agree. but the corporations that rule this world, are not retooling energy away from fossil fuels. to be safe, it would be best to start setting up self sufficient cities that micro manufactures all its goods, necessities(like medicines), grows its own food, etc. of course trade will be the selling of the technology, patents, etc between self sufficient municipal or geographically larger rural self sufficient areas. modern wind driven ships could continue some goods trade.
@Lucidtransition
Yes, because no workers make that machine. It just magically appears.
@SeeProfileForDetails what instead of "truth"? - reality?
wait, you mean the dogs just start eating him alive? do they have rabies or something? or was he killed in the 'hauling process'?
OH HE SEEMS SOOO NICE ..PUKE !!!!
now i can admit that i am not well informed about the war in Iraq BUT re: USA economy, fighting two open ended wars can not be helping...wish you guys could pull out for your own sake....but like i said i only know the basics about the politics behind the wars...
He is married and has kids. :-(
He lost me at "and"
AMEN! Starve the beast!