Paul Krugman Quotes

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.
Paul Krugman

Person, Another, Debt

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
Paul Krugman

Health, Fun, Law

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.
Paul Krugman

Great, Future, Hands

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
Paul Krugman

Find, Said, Whatever

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
Paul Krugman

Funny, Work, Men

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
Paul Krugman

Success, Change, Politics

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
Paul Krugman

Science, Political, Friends

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.
Paul Krugman

Long, Movement, Cheap

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
Paul Krugman

Same, Social, Security

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.
Paul Krugman

Good, Experience, Understand

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.
Paul Krugman

Time, Real, Same

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
Paul Krugman

Science, Thinking, Seriously

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
Paul Krugman

Crisis, High, Debt

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: February 28, 1953

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