"Ending Greece’s Nightmare" - Paul Krugman

Still, in calling for a major change, Mr. Tsipras is being far more realistic than officials who want the beatings to continue until morale improves. The rest of Europe should give him a chance to end his country’s nightmare.

"Twin Peaks Planet" - Paul Krugman

In 2014, soaring inequality in advanced nations finally received the attention it deserved, as Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” became a surprise (and deserving) best seller. The usual suspects are still in well-paid denial, but, to everyone else, it is now obvious that income and wealth are more concentrated at the very top than they have been since the Gilded Age — and the trend shows no sign of letting up.

Este livro está a dar que falar: veja o que pensa Paul Krugman sobre ele

"Portugal: Waiting it outl"

The café was the last to close. By March, Marina Oliveira, the owner, was selling only a few cups of coffee a day and had fallen three months behind with the rent. Before her small restaurant finally closed, a mini-market, a builder’s office and other neighbouring businesses had shut down. Now every store window in the row of a dozen shops on a north Lisbon housing estate is covered with cardboard and old newspapers.

"Just say Nao" - Paul Krugman

Update: yes, I know about the tilda, but could not persuade the software to show it. The tilda, I’ve always said, means that there’s an “n” at the end that isn’t written but which you don’t pronounce — if you’ve ever heard Portuguese, you’ll understand what I mean.

Sorry about the silence — I spent yesterday being human (the High Line in NYC is all it’s cracked up to be!), and then had a hellishly busy day today. If I had more energy left I’d plunge into the next stage in the European crisis; the moving finger of instability has now reached Portugal, with the government, of course, proposing to cure matters with More Austerity. But it will have to hold until tomorrow.

Daqui.

"Grécia vai "muito possivelmente" abandonar a zona euro em Junho"

Penso que Krugman começa a exagerar no seu "desejo" de que o euro acabe

Paul Krugman afirma que a Grécia vai "muito possivelmente" abandonar a zona euro em Junho. O Nobel da Economia antecipa a saída devido não só à falta de acordo sobre a constituição do próximo governo como também à falta de liquidez do país a partir do próximo mês.

Artigo original aqui

"Krugman em Portugal"

Para Krugman, só há uma saída: em vez de oferecer às nações problemática mais austeridade e soluções drásticas como a ameaça de terem de sair do euro, a Europa (e em concreto a Alemanha) deve "reverter as suas políticas de austeridade e aceitar uma inflação mais alta". "Mas não o fará", lamenta.