Preview: Paul Krugman on Economic Stigmas and Solutions

January 10, 2013

In a preview of this week’s Moyers & Company, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman talks with Bill about the bleak hopes of economic recovery for many hard-hit Americans, particularly the young and unemployed. Krugman calls the situation a “vast, unnecessary catastrophe,” but says solutions are possible, and can happen more quickly than most think.

Watch Paul Krugman discuss President Obama’s Treasury pick, Jack Lew, and why he’s okay with not being chosen himself.

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  • MaxI

    Check out Janine Wedel’s work for more insights into these dynamics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdvpRJsinNA

  • iCallBullshit

    Paul Krookman – do some grocery shopping like everyman … the policies you advocate are utter garbage if you buy groceries, fuel or housing. Worthless puppet. Obama won a Nobel prize too and he drone-kills more kids overseas than guns do at home. Garbage.

  • http://twitter.com/memimemimy caroline

    Your name should be, IAmBullshit.

  • Anonymous

    Every event that a man would master must be mounted
    on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it
    galloped past him.