The War in Iraq and the American Economy

New York Times columnist and Princeton University Economics professor Paul Krugman visits UC Berkeley to discuss the war on Iraq and the American economy. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents" [10/2003] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 8192]

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Education

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• Iraq
• economy
• war

[8data]

no, broxen window fallacy

war doesnt help

never helps

trade, yes

war-just murder

[hellothereimasian]

indeed history doesnt repeat its self but similar events occur such as the rise of an empire the pinnacle of its power then the down fall

[emotionalinvalid]

@8data trade yes, agree. but the corporations that rule this world, are not retooling energy away from fossil fuels. to be safe, it would be best to start setting up self sufficient cities that micro manufactures all its goods, necessities(like medicines), grows its own food, etc. of course trade will be the selling of the technology, patents, etc between self sufficient municipal or geographically larger rural self sufficient areas. modern wind driven ships could continue some goods trade.

[domdadon018]

@SeeProfileForDetails what instead of "truth"? - reality?

[namehoela]

Please post the Q&A session that followed.

[nightshadesk8r]

This video can be downloaded for later!

Thumbs up for impatient people like me who don't usually read the whole description :)

[fengqin821021]

Paul should be a politician or teach politics.....

[SeeProfileForDetails]

@mosfonotoc please don't use "truth",that word is damaged by the truther movements

[tacotony24]

Evangelical protestants + Neocon Zionists = Instigators of the War in Iraq

Evangelical protestants + Neocon Zionists = Disaster in Iraq

[souldad57]

@UFCextra What are you, 12? What does your post have to do with the content of the speech?

The point of Paul's speech is that the justification for the Bush tax cuts were constantly shifting, as was the justification of the invasion of Iraq. These are facts that can be easily vetted.

And if the justifications are false, what are the *real* reasons? Any rational person should be asking this question.

[UFCextra]

RAISE TAXES , RAISE TAXES, RAISE TAXES !!! + $1 on a gallon of gas, +.25c on potato ships, +$100 on plane flights , the minimal tax of 8% should be risin to 15% on all purchased items.