C-Span II NOW: Paul Krugman on Talking about Two Class Society & his Book

[KoKo]

"Conscience of a Liberal." Just started! Talking about Heritage Foundation, Norquist, Coors, Fox... The decline of Labor Movement under Reagan started the Gilded Age II....more good stuff!

[Eurobabe]

1. shit, why is my remote viewing system on the fritz??

dammit. maybe this will be available online later?

[whistle]

3. You tried this link

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan1.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[Eurobabe]

10. thanks whistle, right now i am watching obama on MTP

I'll look later to see if this is available online. :hi:

[whistle]

2. Thanks for the alert, I'm watching the broadcast now

[KoKo]

4. It's Fantastic!!!!

[whistle]

5. Krugman is great...listing all of Ronald Reagan's innocent mistakes

:rofl:

[whistle]

6. Krugman just admitted that FDR is his hero and that he has spent

...a great deal of time studying the New Deal economics

He hopes we are about to elect another FDR, but fears we might elect another Grover Cleveland

[OzarkDem]

9. Can you imagine

What a great and wonderful thing it would be to develop a 21st century version of FDR's New Deal?

It would secure our economic future for the next 2-3 generations. We could do for universal health care what FDR did for Social Security. :woohoo:

What wouldn't you give to be part of that? I'll tell you, I would volunteer my time for that project, no matter how long it took. (Don't tell Mr. OzarkDem, he goes crazy over my long term volunteer projects).

[whistle]

12. Yes, I can visualize full employment for the next 50 years under such a program

...along with peace and prosperity for the U.S. and most of the world.

I can see the development of a modern infrastructure, a stable currency, expanding middle class, closing of income disparities across all economic strata, fair trade deals with Russia, China and India, a transcontinental high speed rail system linking all of the continents with a Eurasian land bridge/tunnel at the Bering Straits, energy independence and development of safe efficient 4th generation nuclear power to provide for our power needs, hydrogen and fresh water from desalinization and moving into the next generation of fusion power plants by the year 2020 and beyond. Science, education, health-care for the benefit of all and much much more.

The New Deal FDR Party!

[whistle]

7. They are in Q&A now and the 1st question was great, unfortunately

...I have to leave and I'm sure there will be a rebroadcast, well worth watching

[underpants]

11. I would highly recommend checking it out on C-SPan

Great stuff.

:kick:

[OzarkDem]

8. Krugman proudly wears the "liberal" label

so do I. With brilliant minds like his on our side, we should be very proud of who we are. Krugman's theories on international trade and economics keep the GOP and the DLC awake at night....

Mr. Krugman received his B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics.

Mr. Krugman is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 papers in professional journals and edited volumes. His professional reputation rests largely on work in international trade and finance; he is one of the founders of the "new trade theory," a major rethinking of the theory of international trade. In recognition of that work, in 1991 the American Economic Association awarded him its John Bates Clark medal, a prize given every two years to "that economist under forty who is adjudged to have made a significant contribution to economic knowledge." Mr. Krugman's current academic research is focused on economic and currency crises.

At the same time, Mr. Krugman has written extensively for a broader public audience. Some of his recent articles on economic issues, originally published in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and other journals, are reprinted in Pop Internationalism and The Accidental Theorist.