213 Quotes by Paul Krugman

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.

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.