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Hi everybody. I’ve been having an extremely busy week, so no two talking heads conversation this week. Just my head talking alone for a relatively short time. Hi, I’m Paul Krugman. I’m winding down some travel, and I’ve

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Hi everybody. I’ve been having an extremely busy week, so no two talking heads conversation this week. Just my head talking alone for a relatively short time. Hi, I’m Paul Krugman. I’m winding down some travel, and I’ve

Transcript The President of the United States is mentally ill, but everybody knows that. So while we should continue to focus on this degeneration taking place in front of our eyes, we should also, beyond that, ask what

Chad Bown and Soumaya Keynes have a terrific new book with that title — a breezy survey of our chaotic new world of international economics, couched as advice for nations trying to get the upper hand. The book is here. I

I’m posting our Wednesday conversation as this week’s video. Transcript below. . . . TRANSCRIPT: Paul Krugman in Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson (recorded 5/20/26) Heather Cox Richardson: How are you doing, Prof

For more videos, visit my YouTube channel. Transcript Hi, Paul Krugman here. Different city, different country, still not home. Unfortunately, couldn’t manage to do this one in a cafe, but we have been sitting in cafes a

For more videos, visit my YouTube channel. 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 right now … TRANSCRI

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

Transcript 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? Hi, Paul Krugman

Remember tariffs? They have not gone away. 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 ago, but i

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

Transcript 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 unhappy at the

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

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

Transcript 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 is to dec

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 occasion. I

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

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 app. Transcript HCR:

Transcript What is Hungary to us or we to Hungary? 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 Budapest. It’s a little odd t

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 come to

Transcript 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.” Hi, I’m Paul Krugman. A brief update on something that has palpably changed in th
Soumaya Keynes
The Economist
1 appearance on this show
Paul Krugman
Distinguished Professor of Economics, Distinguished Scholar · Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, Graduate Center, City University of New York
8 appearances on this show
Heather Cox Richardson
Historian and political commentator · Boston College
2 appearances on this show
G. Elliott Morris
author of Strength in Numbers · Strength in Numbers
1 appearance on this show
G. Elliott Morris
author of Strength in Numbers · Strength in Numbers
1 appearance on this show
Jared Bernstein
Senior Fellow · Center for American Progress
1 appearance on this show
Kevin Warsh
Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics · Hoover Institution
1 appearance on this show
Kim Lane Scheppele
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs & Director of the Program in Law and Normative Thinking · University of Miami School of Law
1 appearance on this show
Lisa Graves
author of 'Without Precedent' · Kawartha Weaving
1 appearance on this show
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