https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/07/10/country-not-quite-bankrupt-yet-the-krugman-solution-spend-more/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 05:22:43 -0400<![CDATA[&#8220;Some of us.&#8221; Don&#8217;t you love that locution? Smug, cliquish, self-satisfied: it&#8217;s a perfect rhetorical gambit for &#8220;progressive&#8221; souls &#8212; you know, people who are just wee-bit smarter and emotionally attuned to the Zeitgeist than you or I. Take The New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, for example. Writing in the former Paper of Record today, The New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman gazes over the economic landscape and announces that, even before Inauguration Day (of blessed memory), &#8220;some of us worried&#8221; that the stimulus plan Barack Obama (peace be unto him) proposed &#8220;would prove inadequate.&#8221; Almost a trillion dollars, but would it be enough? The New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman and his circle of enlightened friends had their doubts. And, deep thinkers that they are, they worried that &#8220;it might be hard, as a political matter, to come back for another round.&#8221;]]>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:54:20 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2009/07/10/country-not-quite-bankrupt-yet-the-krugman-solution-spend-more-n115887