Obama’s Nobel Headache

We won't have any real financial reform until we have Campaign Finance Reform AND oust those bozos Geithner, Summers and Rubin. In the meanwhile, Krugman is the sole intelligent voice making sense of this mess. Obama would do well to invite him into the Cabinet.

Paul Krugman, keep fighting.

Oh, and there is a possibility that the Ruling elite are planning to stage a fake alien invasion as an excuse for martial Law and sweeping powers. They've been testing advanced UFO-like craft for a while, and the recent X-file type themes in hollywood and the recent admissions of UFO files from Governments could be conditioning the public for what would be the biggest scam in history. Alternatively Aliens could really exist, it could go both ways, I prefer the latter.

Lol, to quote Buzz Lightyear" You're mocking me aren't you" As for JFK and (possibly Abraham Lincoln), he was killed because he wasn't towing the line of the old banking families who really controlled America and still do, JFK was a people's president and got too big for his boots. Marylin Monroe who was highly intelligent knew too much also and was killed. The Bin Laden was a friend of the Bushes and his family was flown by them out of the USA before the attacks, he's probably living quite well somewhere, funded by America. (CIA? not sure)Ahmadiinejad could quite likely be part of the conspiracy,He's setting himself up as the bad guy so Obama can ride in on his white horse and put a stop to the threat he poses, Israel is in bed with the US and escalated the Palestinian conflict so Obama can bring peace there as well. It's all part of the plan to portray Obama and his Presidency as the messiah making the transition to a one world government a lot easier. I'm unsure as to how the illuminati fit in, all the evidence points towards the New world order wanting to destroy industrial society and send populations back to the age of merlin but without the really cool magic and dragons. Irrational thinking and doctrinal religion makes people easy to manipulate. The illuminati initially under Adam Weishaupt were always for rational thinking, science and the progression of civilisation, seemingly at odds with the New World Order. Although I'm not an expert on the Illuminati and I'm not sure how they have changed or what they have changed into or even if they're behind the New World Order! One thing I do know is a group of people have been poisoning us for decades with chemtrails, food additives, mercurial vaccinations, Adeno 36 fat virus causing obesity epidemic, fluoride in the water and also causing nasty natural disasters and illness with HAARP (High Frequency Auroral Research Program) in conjunction with GWEN (Ground Wave Network) HAARP, stationed in Alaska sends ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) radiation to targeted areas in the ionosphere that heat it up causing extreme weather. GWEN towers stationed around the US and god knows where else sends out ELF waves that change brainwave frequencies, like a tuning fork, causing depression or violence (noticed the huge rise in depression and violence in recent times?) The people behind this are evil in the extreme and are not for the progression of society as their plan kills intelligent, talented and witless alike. Such is the evil of the plan, it's easy to believe theories about Extraterriestrials or extradimensional entities being behind it, but one can never underestimate the greed and lust for power of some men.

Obama failed when he decided to run for office. I think that he may be a student of history, and the history he is following leads to universal misery. History has shown that Obama's policies fail every time they are implemented; And, you think they will work now just because you want them too? Yes, focus on a solution, get involved in local politics and tell your fed representatives to get the fed government out of our way. The individual/private citizen and small businesses are what have made this country great despite government 'intervention'.

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Obama states that he is a student of history. Maybe he is patterning his work as President after Nero. Remember Nero did not understand his people or his current situation. He partied while the Roman Empire declined. Legend has it that Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As he attempts to become a part of the jet set of our country the Government's credit card is getting maxed out! If we were in a time of prosperity it would be ok but now is not the time for him doing an impersonation of Nero!

instead of being a pessimist and saying what everyone is doing wrong, why not team up and try to work together. Everyone running this country is so selfish and all they want to do is say "NO. my way is better. wwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhhh." dont be a little bitch Krugman. Try teaming up with Obama!

the goverment should stay out of private cpany business and let the market fix itself - the president according to the constition is commander in chief NOT money lender NOT ceo of a car company - these companies should go bankrupt under chapter 13 restructure and hopefully come ot better equiped to deal with the competion and the unions should give in alittle like the foriegn car makers here in this country - also if the government would drop the corporate tax from 35% down to 17-18% it would put the US in a more competitive world market ( 35% is the second highest corporate tax in the world ) no wonder alot o business are going over seas - wake-up US government - talk about greed - here is a democratic president and congress just taking what they want - THATS GREED!!

Krugman has a problem with Obama's policies because he is a socialist and the administration is following the same fascist plan as the previous administration.

Where is the Newsweek interview with Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell, Walter Block or Peter Schiff. Economists who called the financial crisis years before it happened, unlike Krugman.

Why are you still pounding the dead horse of socialist ideas. There is no philosophical difference between socialism and fascism. There is only a difference of opinion as to which policies will bring about the intended despotism faster. This is supposed to be the land of the free, not the land of central planning and nationalized slavery.

I invite anyone who wants socialism to move to Cuba. And Take Krugman with you

I don't know if the writers used or misused the word "bemused" but one thing it does not mean is amused. It means baffled: perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; "obviously bemused by his questions"; "bewildered and confused"; "a cloudy and confounded philosopher. I'm surprised the editors missed this but then it is often misused. I was tempted to write that I was bemused by your use of the word bemused. Looks like I gave in to temptation. tadolfi@marketingcomm.net

A waste of column space. Thomas should write show biz stories. That's all this amounts to.

The most salient point of the article is that Krugman can afford to take a flier and be wrong while Obama has no such luxury.

Having worked in and around government for many years, I have seen how the government has screwed up the deliverables in such separate areas as IT and Education. I???m not going into details because we all have our own eye-witness accounts.
I???m not an economist nor anything near that, but why couldn???t the scenario work that says: just take the 40 million people over 50 in the work force - Pay them $1 million apiece severance with the following stipulations:
1. They retire immediately. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.
2. They buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.
3. They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.
It can't get any easier than that! I think we are just making the solutions way too difficult and costly.
I know this is redistribution of wealth, but that???s happening anyways through the bailouts and pork spending. At least this is much less expensive and we don???t have to enslave future generations of our children to the foreign creditors.
After we follow the above scenario, then let???s all institute the FAIR TAX.
Both Congress and the IRS have conquered ???we the people??? through the Power of Taxation. They grow more wealthy and powerful while the little man shrinks. It???s a system that breeds corruption and graft.

I admittedly stopped reading after you (Evan Thomas) stated that you were part of the "establishment". I suspect that many people will get hung up on that word and may have already formed judgments after only reading these first two sentences! I'm not sure what the "establishment" means, but you claim it is part of "proppoing up the existing order". Fine, I see how you define it. What I don't understand is why you feel the need to be anything other than an objective, unbiased journailst! If there is a journalistic "establishment", then isn't part of it - or at least shouldn't it be - about serious inquiry, scrutiny, and questioning? Your acceptance of an "established order", as you write about a man (Paul Krugman) who seems to be criticizing it, doesn't hold out much hope that your article is anything but a form of propaganda!

Have we arrived at a point in our civilization where propaganda can pass as journalism? And what might it suggest if this kind of "reporting" - even if it is an editorial - becomes the norm in a democracy!?

After most in the media "blew it" in the build up to Iraq, many hoped that a more diligent media would emerge, one that followed a mantra of simply following a story wherever it leads.

Perhaps the greatest irony of the whole story about Paul Krugman is, well the fact that you are criticizing a man who embodies the very symptoms of the problem you are perpetuating. Krugman - regardless of his credentials - has become a media pundit. Media pundits have taken the place of journalists doing the hard work of seeking out the roots of a story. And a story as big as this has many roots.

Regardless of one's political views or core philosophies, people should be angry and outraged about this financial meltdown. They should be equally outraged that you, Evan Thomas, are comfortable enough in your "establishment posture", not to appreciate that outrage, much less notice it.

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Don't be afraid to read Peter Schiff...
"Nationalizing" anything doesn't work.
What has the government ran successfully since WWII?
nothing.
why do you expect them to start now?

The infatuation factor is such that the adoring multitudes refuse to accept the fact that their messiah is bad news. This guy's agenda is to re-make America in his image, sort of like Chavez and Venezuela.