213 Quotes by Paul Krugman

I’ve always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

Economists don’t usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you’re in late or latish middle age.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

I don’t want a job in the administration; I think I’m more effective carping from the sidelines.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn’t require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

Simple doesn’t mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

And when the chickens that didn’t hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it.