What Paul Krugman thinks about politics
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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5 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Paul Krugman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAnd then, it seemed to go away. And now it’s kind of back. We used to say it was really terrible that so much seemed to depend upon gas prices over which the president really has no control.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsBut AI does seem to be transforming U.S. politics. I can’t think of a technology that has inspired so much hate across such a wide political spectrum.
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Our readingThe AI boom has become a huge political liability for Trump and clinging to it will not work
Their wordsBut of course it won’t work. The AI boom, once Trump’s last remaining political asset, is now a huge liability.
- 1 day earlier
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Their wordsClimate denial, we know from decades of experience, is fueled by an unholy trinity of financial interest (fossil fuel companies determined to keep their profits flowing), ideology (conservatives hostile to any form of regulation) and psychological insecurity (real men burn stuff.)
↗The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanitypaulkrugman.substack.com
- 11 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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