Paul Krugman Podcast

<p>For more videos, visit my YouTube channel.</p><p></p><p>I’m away but alas staying in touch with political news at home, and thought I would check in with one of the best public opinion quants about where we stand...

<p>Transcript</p><p>My president went to China, and all I got was even higher gas prices. </p><p>Hi, Paul Krugman here. Recording a video today rather than one of my usual posts,.I just feel like I’ve been too immersed...

<p>Transcript</p><p>What’s good for Elon Musk is not necessarily good for America. In fact, it may go the other way around. So why did Donald Trump take Musk and a bunch of other top executives to China with him...

<p>Remember tariffs? They have not gone away. </p><p>Hi, Paul Krugman with another video update from another cafe. You may remember that back in April 2025, which was seven years ago — well, actually just about one year...

<p>Transcript</p><p>The super rich are different from you and me. They are pettier and more self-centered than most of us can easily imagine. </p><p>Hi, Paul Krugman here. This video is partly me trying to show that yes...

<p>Transcript</p><p>According to press reports, Jeff Bezos is planning to sell his 417-foot yacht, the one with a carved figurehead of Lauren Sanchez, his second wife, at the front. According to these reports, he’s...

<p>Jared Bernstein, former top Biden economist and all-round economic expert, and I bat around the puzzle of persistent negative economic sentiment. Recorded Wednesday.</p><p>. . .</p><p>TRANSCRIPT: Paul Krugman in...

<p>Some quick thoughts about yesterday’s hearing.</p><p>Transcript</p><p>Kevin Warsh, the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, is Donald Trump’s sock puppet. But we knew that. The question during yesterday’s...

<p>Transcript</p><p>When you’re losing a war, but it’s not an existential defeat, your country, your government can continue pretty much as before. Aside from the humiliation, there’s a well-established technique, which...

<p>More than a year ago I interviewed my old friend and colleague Kim Lane Scheppele, a constitutional scholar who speaks Hungarian and knows Hungary, about the march of autocracy. Now, suddenly, a much happier...

<p>No time for a regular post today, so here’s a video.</p><p>Transcript</p><p>When Donald Trump took us to war with Iran, he dismissed warnings from the experts, from the military, from the intelligence community...

<p>Thank you Quentin Hardy, Beth Arnold, Jane Trombley, Resistance Media, Victoria Priya, and many others for tuning into my live video with Heather Cox Richardson! Join me for my next live video in the...

<p>Transcript</p><p>What is Hungary to us or we to Hungary? </p><p>Hi, Paul Krugman here. A Saturday morning update ahead of the big election in Hungary taking place tomorrow. The eyes of the world are upon...

<p>Lisa Graves is a legal activist and the author of a remarkable and terrifying book, Without Precedent, that documents the assault on democracy via the story of John Roberts. I spoke with her about how America has...

<p>Transcript</p><p>All around the world, big, strong men with tears in their eyes are coming up to Donald Trump and saying, “Sir, you’re a loser.” </p><p>Hi, I’m Paul Krugman. A brief update on something that has...