When you combine the organizational skills of Donald Trump and the web expertise of the RNC, you get 2018's “Fake News Awards,” -- an event that crashed quite literally as soon as it was launched (via The Daily Beast): The Republican National Committee on Wednesday night ...read more
Paul Krugman is fun to read because he doesn't have to worry about offending the people who run MSNBC or CNN (and he really doesn't care about offending Fox). That means he doesn't have to pretend the Republican Party isn't a bunch of lying weasels so he can speak his mind, like ...read more
You really don't need to know too much about the Senate Health Care Bill that has now been shelved until at least July 11th. Why? Because there really isn't too much to it, as Paul Krugman pointed out on Twitter today in a very simple yet brutal chart: You can discount Trump ...read more
"Maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care. They've got to make those decisions themselves,” said Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz back in March of ...read more
The trend of both liberal and conservative writers raining derision down on Trump for "scamming" his voters continues with Paul Krugman being the latest to blast Donald Trump for screwing over his voters: For journalists covering domestic policy, this past week poses some hard ...read more
Paul Krugman, like all of us here at the Banter, cannot believe that the Republican Party that once impeached Richard Nixon is sitting on its hands while Trump engages in a sloppy and hamhanded cover up: For generations, Republicans have impugned their opponents’ patriotism. ...read more
The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's greatest gift to American society is his sustained attack on right wing fantasy economics and unashamed advocacy of liberalism. Krugman isn't just a polemicist, he is a Nobel Prize winning economist, so whether or not you agree with ...read more
On Monday, Paul Krugman took note of a recurring theme in Trump's presidency: Nothing the president says is wrong, whether it’s his false claim that he won the popular vote or his assertion that the historically low murder rate is at a record high. No error is ever admitted. And ...read more
In response to the Trump administration's insistence that the recently released jobs numbers are "real" and not "phony" like they apparently were under the Obama administration, Paul Krugman let rip in his latest column, accusing Trump of having "totalitarian instincts" living ...read more
The Republican Party's war on expanding medical care to the vulnerable and sick has been one of the most vile acts in modern American history. Essentially a conservative idea in the first place, Republicans have opposed the Affordable Care Act on the grounds that it was ...read more
In a blistering column for the New York Times, Paul Krugman rips apart Donald Trump's plan to rebuild American infrastructure through billions of dollars of tax credits. The plan, says Krugman, would provide "billions of dollars in checks written to private companies that invest ...read more
Paul Krugman gives voice to a nagging fear a lot of people have had: Even after he loses and loses badly, Donald Trump will continue to be the guiding light of the Republican Party. After explaining that Republicans knew damn well who they were endorsing and that it's ridiculous ...read more
In a column titled The Clinton Agenda, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman lays out the case for why Hillary needs to not just win, but win big and what happens if does. First, the most obvious part: A landslide win gives us the Senate. That, in turn, gives us the Supreme ...read more
At the beginning of August, Paul Krugman predicted that Donald Trump's bid for the White House would end in a train wreck: Krugman, not having bought in to the media's Trump narrative ("He'll pivot any second now and act more presidential! We promise!"), knew that Trump would be ...read more
Despite the conservative insistence that the same economic policies responsible for wrecking the economy in 2008 are the only ones capable of fixing it, President Obama has now definitively shown otherwise. The release of the annual Census Bureau report on income, poverty and ...read more
Paul Krugman decries the "increasingly bizarre" media coverage of Hillary Clinton's supposed scandals, and urges journalists "to ask whether they are reporting facts or simply engaging in innuendo, and urge the public to read with a critical eye." The major problem with the ...read more
Paul Krugman weighs in on the extremely shocking statistic that pregnant Texan women have seen a doubling of their mortality rate in recent years: The economic case for being cruel to the unfortunate has lost whatever slight credibility it may once have had. Yet the cruelty goes ...read more
During an interview on Bloomberg TV, New York Times columnist and esteemed economist Paul Krugman dismissed the notion that “economic anxiety" was a good predictor of who might be a Trump supporter. "Racial antagonism is a good indicator of who’s a Trump supporter,” said ...read more
After arguing that sensible renewable energy policies and sticking to president Obama's Clean Power Plan is all we need to do to save the planet from catastrophic climate change, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman goes after Donald Trump and other conservative males who ...read more
In his latest New York Times column, Paul Krugman explores some of the reasons why Donald Trump is claiming he can't release his taxes (because of course, he can), and argues it is most likely he isn't anywhere near as rich as he claims to be: Mr. Trump’s excuse, that he can’t ...read more
Paul Krugman's latest Op-Ed neatly sums up the hypocrisy of the GOP's shock over Donald Trump's tactics in one painfully truthful paragraph. He writes: Republican political strategy has been exploiting racial antagonism, getting working-class whites to despise government because ...read more
As a Brit I have always been confused by what Americans regard as 'right' and 'left'. Having followed politics closely in this country since the late 90's, I understand that in America Bill Clinton is considered liberal while George W. Bush is considered conservative. In ...read more
After lambasting Marco Rubio's atrocious debate performance where he regurgitated a canned response to Chris Christie about how awful President Obama was three times, Paul Krugman accused the entire Republican party of existing in a "time loop" due to their complete inability to ...read more
Paul Krugman weighs in on the latest round of insane German/Euro demands on beleaguered Greece: Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right. This goes beyond harsh into pure vindictiveness, complete destruction of national ...read more
If you've ever read TechCrunch for a sustained period of time, you'd get the distinct impression that not only are there thousands of 'disruptors' out there revolutionizing the economy to work for the benefit of mankind, but some sort of Silicon Valley inspired tech utopia is ...read more
Anyone who's kept up with economist and columnist for The New York Times, Paul Krugman, is well aware that he's far from being considered an "Obamabot," and from the beginning of the administration he's taken a fairly critical yet realistic posture regarding the president, ...read more
For the first part of New Year's Day, I thought the far-left "Obama caved" crowd would take the prize for the most insane political faction of the day considering how, as soon as a deal was reached, they accused the president of capitulating to the Republicans, even though the ...read more
Paul Krugman on the deficit reduction plan that is widely regarded by serious economists as, well, frankly ridiculous: So, a public service reminder: Simpson-Bowles is terrible. It mucks around with taxes, but is obsessed with lowering marginal rates despite a complete absence ...read more
Paul Krugman sums up the German economic policy of austerity that is causing immense misery throughout Europe: Why do it, then? Partly it’s because Europe is still operating on the false theory that this is essentially a fiscal issue; partly it’s to assuage the Germans, who ...read more
Paul Krugman makes a good point: Ask yourself: when was the last time a Republican leader made a point of praising hard-working, ordinary families — as opposed to “job creators”? Think about what happened on Labor Day: on a day dedicated to celebrating workers, House majority ...read more
Mitt Romney's choice for his VP running mate really tells you all you need to know about the choice this year for the Presidency. Paul Ryan is about as far right as you can possibly get on the economic spectrum - a hardcore Ayn Rand ideologue who's policy proposals consist of ...read more
In the latest episode of Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' on HBO, presenter Will McAvoy continues his noble fight to dispel Right wing myths and civilize discourse in America. We learn in the episode that McAvoy is a registered Republican, but is so distressed by the grotesque ...read more
This argument deserves to be made over and over again to counter the ridiculous assumption that being successful in business means you know how to run an economy. Here's Obama on the difference: When some people question why I would challenge his Bain record, the point I’ve made ...read more
A heads up to our readers, every Friday we'll be doing a brief roundup of the best stories here at The Daily Banter. This week we profiled arch conservative Grover Norquist's psychopathic view of society, and argued that Scott Walker's win in Wisconsin only proved that money ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman has been getting a huge amount of media attention over the past few weeks, in part due to a book he has written 'End This Depression Now!', but mostly because his message of economic sanity is resonating with the ...read more
By Paul R. Pillar: The commonly accepted story line about the French and Greek elections on Sunday is that the outcome is a rejection by voters of the austerity that Merkozy-dominated European decision-makers have been imposing on the eurozone. The result, as some critics ...read more
By Ben Cohen: The major argument behind implementing austerity measures during an economic crisis is to make sure governments stay credit worthy and are able to borrow from the bond market in the future. Just think of it like you would a personal credit card - if you've been ...read more
By Ben Cohen: A note to our readers, I will be discussing the double dip recession in the UK on the RT network at 4pm ET with Abby Martin, so please tune in if you have time. I wrote a piece yesterday about the crisis, arguing that the austerity measures passed by the ...read more
Two giants in economic thought squared off last night to debate their competing economic theories on Bloomberg TV. On the Right was Congressman Ron Paul, champion of extreme libertarianism, and on the Left, Paul Krugman the most prominent advocate of Keynesian economics. The ...read more
By Ben Cohen: The departure of Greg Smith, the executive director and head of Goldman Sachs’s United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has made huge ripples in the financial industry. While there have been other Wall St bankers quitting ...read more
From the Independent: Chancellor George Osborne defended the Government's austerity package today after Britain was threatened with the loss of its AAA credit rating amid fears over weaker growth prospects and potential shocks from the eurozone crisis. Ratings agency Moody's ...read more
Paul Krugman explains why despite the very encouraging job numbers this month, the US economy is by no means in the clear. Who is to blame for the continued instability? The supply siders obsessed with deficits and small government: Very early in this slump — basically, as soon ...read more
Paul Krugman spells out the key difference between a public official and a businessman: Running a business is nothing at all like making macro policy. The key point about macroeconomics is the pervasiveness of feedback loops due to the fact that workers are also consumers. No ...read more
Paul Krugman on the down side of Ron Paul's ideological consistency: Unfortunately, Mr. Paul has maintained his consistency by ignoring reality, clinging to his ideology even as the facts have demonstrated that ideology’s wrongness. And, even more unfortunately, Paulist ...read more
Paul Krugman has spent a good deal of time blasting apart Paul Ryan's intellectually bankrupt health care plan so one can understand why the esteemed economist is a little irked Politico has decided to award Ryan healthcare policymaker of the year. According to Krugman, ...read more
Image via Wikipedia Paul Krugman compares the Right's nonsensical arguments against global warming and economic inequality: Think about climate change. You have various right-wingers simultaneously (a) denying that global warming is happening (b) denying that anyone denies ...read more
Paul Krugman dispels the myth that Ireland is recovering from its prolonged recession due to a rise in pharma exports and austerity measures: So, some cold water. First of all, eventual recovery after years of Depression-level unemployment is a strange definition of success. ...read more
Paul Krugman on why it isn't Government that is prolonging the economic recovery: You often hear assertions to the effect that in the past the economy has always rebounded strongly after a recession, so there must be something special at work here — and that something ...read more
The substance of Obama's speech on jobs really stood out last night - the President laid out a pretty comprehensive plan to stimulate the American economy with $447 billion worth of investments and tax cuts. Obama detailed the areas in which the government would invest, where ...read more
Robert Scheer dispells the myth that Gov. Rick Perry had anything to do with Texas's economic recovery: Thanks to breakthroughs in oil field technology that Perry had nothing to do with, there have been controversial new drilling techniques that have vastly expanded the ...read more
