Paul Krugman Quotes

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

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

- Paul Krugman

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

- Paul Krugman

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

- Paul Krugman

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

- Paul Krugman

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

- Paul Krugman

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

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

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

- Paul Krugman

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

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

- Paul Krugman

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

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