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'Make life easier for criminals': Paul Krugman torches MAGA crypto bros' ambitions
1 week ago

'Make life easier for criminals': Paul Krugman torches MAGA crypto bros' ambitions

Raw Story  

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman on Monday took aim at major players in the cryptocurrency industry who are angling to get President-elect Donald Trump to help them fatten up their bank accounts. Writing on his Substack page, Krugman hammered crypto advocates' demands that the government guarantee their rights to open accounts with any bank operating in the United States. "Now …

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Legendary New York Times Columnist Announces Retirement
2 weeks, 3 days ago

Legendary New York Times Columnist Announces Retirement

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING After nearly 25 years as a New York Times Opinion columnist, Paul Krugman announced Friday that he plans to retire from the gig at the end of the year. The American economist and Nobel laureate has been a fixture at the paper since his first column on Jan. 2, 2000, where he predicted the beginning of the …

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'Easily bamboozled' Trump could get owned by Mexico in trade war: Paul Krugman
3 weeks, 3 days ago

'Easily bamboozled' Trump could get owned by Mexico in trade war: Paul Krugman

Raw Story  

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is seeing signs that President-elect Donald Trump may have already bitten off more than he can chew when it comes to his threats to launch trade wars with Mexico and Canada. Writing on BlueSky, Krugman makes the case that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum appears to be ready to call Trump's …

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'Surely illegal': Paul Krugman pulls the lid off Trump's new economic scheme
3 weeks, 6 days ago

'Surely illegal': Paul Krugman pulls the lid off Trump's new economic scheme

Raw Story  

Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Tuesday examined President-elect Donald Trump's new threats to slap tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican products — and concluded that he's likely not bluffing. Writing on his Bluesky account, Krugman downplayed claims that the tariffs are a four-dimensional chess play by Trump to extract new concessions from America's two …

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Could Trump’s deportation plan spike your grocery bill?
1 month ago

Could Trump’s deportation plan spike your grocery bill?

Firstpost  

US President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation pledge could lead to soaring grocery prices by creating severe labour shortages in agriculture and food production. With 1.7 million undocumented workers supporting the food supply chain, experts warn that deportations could slash supply and drive up costs for staples like fruits, vegetables, dairy, and meat United States President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to implement …

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'Disturbing scenario': Top economist sees apocalyptic future that MAGA doesn't understand
1 month, 1 week ago

'Disturbing scenario': Top economist sees apocalyptic future that MAGA doesn't understand

Raw Story  

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman predicts that Donald Trump will take credit for all of President Joe Biden's economic successes over the past four years — and anticipates that the president-elect's fans have no idea of the damage his policies could cause. Krugman began a conversation with The New Republic's Greg Sargent by saying that Americans don't understand how …

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'Really rude shock' coming to Trump voters on inflation: Nobel Prize-winning economist
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1 month, 1 week ago

'Really rude shock' coming to Trump voters on inflation: Nobel Prize-winning economist

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New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said that voters who believed President-elect Donald Trump would do a better job of handling inflation than Vice President Kamala Harris are in for a "really rude shock." In a podcast published by the Times this week, Krugman outlined why Trump's proposed economic policies were likely to do the exact …

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Trump’s mass deportations will raise grocery prices even higher: Nobel-winning economist
1 month, 1 week ago

Trump’s mass deportations will raise grocery prices even higher: Nobel-winning economist

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to institute across-the-board tariffs and mass deportation of undocumented immigrants will likely usher in the unintended consequence of “soaring inflation,” according to a Noble Prize-winning economist, who added that grocery and housing prices will specifically be affected. “If these workers are deported, the food industry will probably have great difficulty replacing them,” Krugman wrote Monday, noting …

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'Big mistake': Columnist warns Trump's comeback may threaten even MAGA supporters
1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Big mistake': Columnist warns Trump's comeback may threaten even MAGA supporters

Raw Story  

People who don’t consider themselves supporters of Donald Trump shouldn’t be the only ones wary about potential consequences if he returns to the Oval Office, a longtime New York Times columnist wrote, suggesting that this year’s election “could very easily be America’s last more or less free and fair election for a long time.” “The guardrails that constrained him last …

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'Never thought leopards would eat my face!' Economist likens MAGA voters to famous meme
1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Never thought leopards would eat my face!' Economist likens MAGA voters to famous meme

Raw Story  

Many supporters of former President Donald Trump will sorely regret if he wins, Nobel Prize-winning economist turned political analyst Paul Krugman wrote for The New York Times. It's like the infamous meme from a 2015 tweet, Krugman noted: "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." "Many analysts have …

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'Doesn't know what year it is': Writer slams Trump for rants that are 'unmoored in time'
2 months, 1 week ago

'Doesn't know what year it is': Writer slams Trump for rants that are 'unmoored in time'

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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's examination of recent Donald Trump speeches led him to believe the former president has become "unmoored in time." In reality, wrote Krugman, "New York’s transformation into one of the safest places in America has been especially spectacular: The city had 83 percent fewer murders last year than it did in 1990, and neither I …

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Trump gets schooled by Nobel Prize winner over 'odd' Harris attacks: 'Sorry, she isn't'
4 months ago

Trump gets schooled by Nobel Prize winner over 'odd' Harris attacks: 'Sorry, she isn't'

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Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist turned liberal political pundit, praised Vice President Kamala Harris' new economic platform in a column for The New York Times Monday — and tore down former President Donald Trump's efforts to paint it as radical. He was reacting to Harris unveiling a sweeping plan intended to lower costs for American families — and after …

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Nobel Prize winner shams Donald Trump and says Kamala Harris is ‘No…’
4 months, 1 week ago

Nobel Prize winner shams Donald Trump and says Kamala Harris is ‘No…’

Hindustan Times  

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says former US President Donald Trump is on a desperate political move and trying to defame Vice President Kamala Harris by calling her “communist”. Paul Krugman slams Trump's 'communist' label on Kamala Harris as a desperate political move Krugman told the New York Times, “Donald Trump has been using an ugly word to describe Vice …

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Trump shamed by Nobel Prize winner shocked by 'ugly word' attack on Harris
4 months, 1 week ago

Trump shamed by Nobel Prize winner shocked by 'ugly word' attack on Harris

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Donald Trump and his allies are attempting an act of political desperation that reveals just how "worried" they are about Vice President Kamala Harris, a Nobel Prize-winning economist says. "Donald Trump has been using an ugly word to describe Vice President Kamala Harris," writes Krugman. It's a rehash of former President Ronald Reagan's "redbaiting" efforts to convince Americans that Medicare …

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Will Trump abolish income tax? Here's what US economy may look like if he wins
6 months, 1 week ago

Will Trump abolish income tax? Here's what US economy may look like if he wins

Firstpost  

The abolition of US federal income tax would lead to a shortfall of $2.1 trillion in government revenues, according to an expert Former US President Donald Trump has proposed abolishing federal income tax if he wins the US presidential election. 🧐 pic.twitter.com/hw0k8gwlGa — Thomas Massie June 13, 2024 Separately, in a meeting with business leaders, Trump has said he would …

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Renowned economist predicts Trump will 'wreck' Social Security if he wins
9 months, 1 week ago

Renowned economist predicts Trump will 'wreck' Social Security if he wins

Raw Story  

During his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump vowed not to cut Social Security if he won the election. Krugman continued, "It clearly signaled Democrats' vision for the future — in particular, their belief that we can preserve the solvency of Social Security and Medicare by raising taxes on high incomes rather than by cutting benefits. President George W. Bush proposed privatizing …

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Why did economists go wrong by forecasting a US recession this year?
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Why did economists go wrong by forecasting a US recession this year?

Live Mint  

Last year at this time, 85% of economists in a poll predicted a recession in the US this year—and that was an optimistic take, compared to the 100% probability of a recession forecast two months earlier. As US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last week: “So many economists were saying there’s no way for inflation to get back to normal …

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Republican 'Cowards' Are Empowering The 'Crazies,' Rages Paul Krugman
3 years, 1 month ago

Republican 'Cowards' Are Empowering The 'Crazies,' Rages Paul Krugman

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Conspiracy theorists railing about “rigged” elections and calling climate change a “hoax” are bad enough. Just as threatening are Republican “cowards” who empower the frightening fringe, economist Paul Krugman argued Thursday in an opinion piece for The New York Times. “When we talk about the GOP’s moral descent, we tend to focus on the obvious extremists, like …

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Here's what Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wants India to do
3 years, 9 months ago

Here's what Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wants India to do

India Today  

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wants India to come up with a deliberate policy for fostering industries. The noted economist highlighted that income inequality is also a major problem India faces at the moment. A country like India might want to have a deliberate policy for fostering industries.” The licence raj regime, which ceased to exist after the economic liberalisation …

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