Its both prescription and warning. Our current obsession with slashing the deficit and avoiding that wellknown and worn fiscal cliff is killing us, krugman writes, getting in the way of what really needs to be done, which is dedicating government to creating jobs and getting us back to full employment. He blames not only congress but the white house. Paul krugman is professor of economics and International Affairs at princeton university. Since 1999, hes been an oped columnist at the New York Times and now also writes a blog for the paper titled the conscience of a liberal. According to the Search Engine technorati, its the most popular blog by an individual on the internet. Author or editor of some 20 books and more than 200 professional papers, krugman is a thinker so esteemed and widely known in his field hes become an icon. Not only has he won the nobel prize in economics, hes also the subject of this song by the balladeer Loudon Wainwright iii i read the New York Times thats where
And then if you stop paying attention to the crawl, you to back to that guy for a minute, you go back to the crawl and you catch the end of something. Madonnas left foot. What about madonnas left foot, what happened . Youre waiting for it to come back around again. It goes to commercial. Are you sad, do you get stressed . [audience applause]. Kristin chenoweth heres one of my favorites, an adorable clip of ellen as dory the lovable little fish in the immortal finding nemo. [ellens voice as dory]. Dory now, lets ask somebody for directions. Marlin oh, fine, who do you want to ask the spec . Theres nobody here dory well there has to be someone its the ocean silly, were not the only two in here. Lets see. Okay, no one there. Ah, nope. Nada. Ha, theres somebody, hey excuse. Marlin dory, dory ok, now its my turn. Im thinking of something dark and mysterious. Its a fish we dont know and if we ask it directions it could ingest us and spit out our bones dory what is it with men and asking for
This week on moyers and company. Monetary policy is the aspirin of economic ailments. Take a couple whenever youre feeling that you have a headache. Now we had the over the counter remedy doesnt work and we need the heavy duty prescription medicine, and thats what im arguing for. Announcer funding is provided by Carnegie Corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. The kohlberg foundation. Independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. The clements foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The bernard and audre rapoport foundation. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. More information at macfound.
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Wainwright will be in familiar singer-songwriter mode for two shows May 24 at City Winery, but recent months have also seen his most ambitious projects.