"Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize'winning economist and New York Times columnist discusses his latest book, *End This Depression Now!* The Great Recession is more than four years old'and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out, ""Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge'all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all'remain in a state of intense pain."" How bad have things gotten? How did the U.S. get stuck in what Krugman argues can only be called a depression? And above all, how do we free ourselves? Krugman pursues these questions, and declares that a strong recovery is just one step away, if our leaders can find the ""intellectual clarity and political will"" to end this depression now."
Paul Krugman is the world's preeminent economist, having won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics. An insightful, outspoken Op-Ed columnist for the *New York Times*, he is a passionate and articulate speaker, with a gift for relating global economic events to his audiences, and committed to speaking the truth as he sees it in the most compelling terms. He is the author of several books, including most recently, *The Conscience of a Liberal*, and of *The Great Unraveling*, a bestseller. In response to the current financial crisis, Professor Krugman has released an updated edition of his prescient 1999 book, *The Return of Depression Economics*.