Paul Krugman

If you're not reading Paul Krugman, you should be. He's one of the sanest, most reasonable voices out there. Also a Professor of Economics at Princeton, a New York Times columnist, a Nobel Prize-winning Economist, and - most importantly - a blogger who regularly updates his blog, The Conscience of a Liberal.

The comments on his blog are worth reading, too. Some are reasoned arguments complementing or counterpointing his positions. Some are the typical troll attacks that have become standard in what passes for modern discourse. And some are just odd, irrelevant science-fiction references that just go to show that the commenter actually read the Newsweek profile that described how Paul Krugman chose to pursue a career in Economics based on his fascination with Isaac Asimov's Foundation seres.