Paul Krugman
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on economic geography, professor emeritus at Princeton and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a New York Times columnist from 1999 to 2024. Now writes on Substack.
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Their wordsCrude economic factors don’t explain the fascist shift in Germany. And Trumponomics, even if it worked (which it doesn’t) wouldn’t end the resentment feeding our own authoritarian movement.
↗Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomicspaulkrugman.substack.com
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Their wordsAmerica’s large trade deficit in manufactured goods does mean that we have fewer manufacturing jobs than we would if that trade were balanced.
↗Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomicspaulkrugman.substack.com
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Their wordsBut in any case the tale of East Germany as a deeply depressed region no longer fits the facts.
↗Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomicspaulkrugman.substack.com
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsMoreover, by many measures — arguably the most important measures — Europe is, in fact, keeping up with the United States.
↗Is Europe in Economic Decline?paulkrugman.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsEurope, along with China and the United States, is an economic superpower. And, at this point in time, it is arguably the world’s only democratic superpower.
↗Is Europe in Economic Decline?paulkrugman.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsIn fact, the U.S. trade deficit for all of 2025 was about the same as it was in 2024.
↗Attack of the Zombie Tariffspaulkrugman.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Our reading
The tariffs did not revive American manufacturing; employment in it fell after they were imposed.
Their wordsTrump also claimed that his tariffs would revive American manufacturing. In fact, manufacturing employment has declined since Liberation Day.
↗Attack of the Zombie Tariffspaulkrugman.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsRevenue from the Trump tariffs, even pre-Court, wasn’t enough to make a large dent in the deficit.
↗Attack of the Zombie Tariffspaulkrugman.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsIt has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally.
↗Attack of the Zombie Tariffspaulkrugman.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsBut politics aside, what’s notable about that 2001 report, put together by men who regarded themselves as hard-headed realists, is that it envisaged an energy future reliant almost entirely on fossil fuels plus a bit of nuclear energy.
↗The Rise of Renewable Energypaulkrugman.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsthere are many people who still refuse to believe that renewables can be practical even as renewables keep growing around the world, in fact accounting for the bulk of growth in electricity generation
↗The Rise of Renewable Energypaulkrugman.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece