Speaking at a public lecture on 7 November at SMU, Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman said that President Obama needs to stand firm on the looming "fiscal cliff" issue of the United States. Scheduled to take effect in January, the cliff is a package of tax increases and spending cuts that will reduce the country's huge fiscal deficit but which would also suck billions of dollars out of the world's biggest economy.

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