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Paul Krugman: Fixing the Financial Crisis

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Uploaded by on Dec 8, 2008

Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for economics talks to CNBC about the issues that are plaguing our economy today and what needs to be done to fix the current crisis.

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  • @finarrykahn13 Answer 3: Well, savings are already record high. People are paying off their huge mortgages created by the housing bubble. This means they buy less which in turn leads to reduced production (not enough demand). Investors decide not to invest because they see no reason - their factories have already full supply and there are no need to hire more employees. Spending money is a way of increasing aggregate demand. I hope this helps.

  • @finarrykahn13 Answer 2: Gold plays no role in a modern economy. One reason why gold might be expensive right now is because the yield on government bonds is very low. It has nothing to do with fear of inflation.

  • @finarrykahn13 Answer: Because it's very hard to get inflation in a depressed economy. We actually had deflation during in 2008. Inflation occurs (roughly) when the money supply exceeds the growth in GDP. Also, there is something called 'money multiplier' which is the ratio between the money supply and monetary base. If the multiplier is low one can increase the monetary base without causing inflation.

  • I want to hear an actual Keynesian help me here. How does spending and artificial infusion of credit / monetary supply not result in destructive inflation? Aren't the Consumer Price Indexes going up? Aren't oil and gold and other commodities at all time highs? Can someone explain what increased spending will do but increase consumption and demand, not savings and production? I am an economics neophyte drawn more to Austrian economics, but want to hear the other side of the story fairly.

  • Be fair, Economics Nobel Prize should be awarded to those Economists contributed best performance of economy to their countries, such as china,russia,brazil and india rather than those economist done bad job causing all financial crisis trouble in the world,like USA, UK and Europe 5 PIIGS. What the f is Nobel Economics prize means in these days. Always go to those economists coming from nations with poor performance economy. Their theories re bullshit & done no good to their countries!!!

  • Paul Keynesian Krugman sucks.

  • 15 Feb 09

    This guy is a proven economic genius.

    WHY isn't he on the US governments 1st team?

    Maybe he is~ FDCrab England UK

  • One word:  Balls.

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