On January 28, 2014, Chris Matthews told a guest on “Hardball” that his sources were telling him that the Obama administration was convinced that the U.S. economy needed additional stimulus. Matthews told his guest: “I’m a Keynesian; you’re a Keynesian.” They talked about the difficulties of getting Congress to provide the necessary increase in stimulus.
On November 12, 2012, I wrote a column about Chris Matthews statements on his November 9 program about Matthews’ denouncing Paul Krugman because Krugman was (like us at UMKC) calling on the administration not to adopt an austerity policy in the form of the “Grand Bargain,” which is really the Grand Betrayal of the safety net. Here is the key passage from my column.
