All the president's zombies

[Miss Kitty]

I just loved it during the Reagan years when one could take a tax deduction on the interest on credit cards. I just spent because there seemed to be no penalty.

...filter, off! Oh, BR...you really are too much.

 

[Matt J]

Why is Reagan always credited with the Soviet Union falling? If you follow the logic that he made a statement and was President at the time then check out these other amazing things some of our Presidents have done:

1903 - Theodore Roosevelt kicks off flying.
1928 - Calvin Coolidge cures disease with penicillin.

The point is that the Soviet Union was already crumbling from the inside. Throw in the fact that there was mass civil unrest due to Chernobyl and the fact is that in 20 years a Russian could be lauding over Putin as the man that brought down the United States.

P.S. The spend them into bankruptcy argument is bogus. That only lined the pockets of military contractors. Most of the military infrastructure that people on both sides of the iron curtain thought was there was propaganda akin to Enron's profits.

 

[30ashopper]

Why is Reagan always credited with the Soviet Union falling? If you follow the logic that he made a statement and was President at the time then check out these other amazing things some of our Presidents have done:

1903 - Theodore Roosevelt kicks off flying.
1928 - Calvin Coolidge cures disease with penicillin.

The point is that the Soviet Union was already crumbling from the inside. Throw in the fact that there was mass civil unrest due to Chernobyl and the fact is that in 20 years a Russian could be lauding over Putin as the man that brought down the United States.

P.S. The spend them into bankruptcy argument is bogus. That only lined the pockets of military contractors. Most of the military infrastructure that people on both sides of the iron curtain thought was there was propaganda akin to Enron's profits.

Revisionist theory!

 

[kkddbb]

i always get a kick out of someone referring to paul krugman for any economic advice. this man is consistantly wrong everytime yet because he's a far left economic columnist from the NYT he somehow has credibility?

and dont get me going on reagan. the left will never see his leadership for what it is and thats because they dont want too-period. if our current president did what reagan did we may very well be out of this recession or would at least see a light at the end of its tunnel. reagan knew like most clear thinking people that you cant spend your way out of debt.

 

[Bob]

Real median income in the United States, 1967 - 2006. Krugman is a partisan hack.

Paul Krugman - The New York Times Paul Krugman joined The New York Times in 1999 as a columnist on the Op-Ed Page and continues as professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics.

Mr. Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes. His professional reputation rests largely on work in international trade and finance; he is one of the founders of the "new trade theory," a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. In recognition of that work, in 1991 the American Economic Association awarded him its John Bates Clark medal, a prize given every two years to "that economist under forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic knowledge." Mr. Krugman's current academic research is focused on economic and currency crises.

At the same time, Mr. Krugman has written extensively for a broader public audience. Some of his recent articles on economic issues, originally published in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and other journals, are reprinted in Pop Internationalism and The Accidental Theorist.

On October 13, 2008, it was announced that Mr. Krugman would receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.

 

[Bob]

30A, care to match that resume? who's the hack?

 

[Bob]

i always get a kick out of someone referring to paul krugman for any economic advice. this man is consistantly wrong everytime yet because he's a far left economic columnist from the NYT he somehow has credibility?

and dont get me going on reagan. the left will never see his leadership for what it is and thats because they dont want too-period. if our current president did what reagan did we may very well be out of this recession or would at least see a light at the end of its tunnel. reagan knew like most clear thinking people that you cant spend your way out of debt.

good post

 

[Bob]

Real median income in the United States, 1967 - 2006. Krugman is a partisan hack.

30A, 1980-2006 real income rose from 40k to 48.2k. there's your 22 percent. take the time to read your own charts. think a little before you knee jerk post.

 

[kkddbb]

dictators have the best of educations and many have received the nobel prize. and your point is.................

one can have the best possible resume, but are his predictions correct? and answer to that is "no" when it comes to krugman. he constantly wrong and thats simply a fact. but go ahead, take his advice....

 

[Bob]

dictators have the best of educations and many have received the nobel prize. and your point is.................

one can have the best possible resume, but are his predictions correct? and answer to that is "no" when it comes to krugman. he constantly wrong and thats simply a fact. but go ahead, take his advice....

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