What Paul Krugman thinks about motivation

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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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1. 24 Feb 2026

   Our readingThe tariffs survived the case for them because their real purpose was the personal power they conferred.

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   Their wordsIt has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally.

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