“using it to download child pornography.”
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Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugma…
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2026· 19 entries
“an overwhelming majority [of the American public] believes that the government is spending too much to help large financial institutions. This suggests that the administration”
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“s more effective at driving change outside the administration than inside it,”
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“the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults”
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“[going] for easy slogans over hard thinking”
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“temperamentally unsuited for that kind of role. You have to be very good at people skills, biting your tongue when people say silly things.”
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“The Theory of Interstellar Trade”
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Published video “Demography, Deportations and the Trump Stall”.
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Published video “Magna Carta and taxes #substack #shorts”.
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Published video “Thomas Paine Proposed a 100% Tax #substack #shorts”.
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Published video “Elites, slavery, and anti-tax power #substack #shorts”.
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Published video “When Tax Cuts Hit the Safety Net #substack #shorts”.
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Published video “Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Democracy”.
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Published video “Political Identity Variables”.
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Published video “Factors That Could Influence the Midterms”.
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Published video “Latest Polling on Immigration”.
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InsuranceNewsNet: PAUL KRUGMAN: US HEALTH CARE IS ALREADY SOCIALIST
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Public attention spiked: 8,831 Wikipedia readers in one day, 14.4× the usual 612, with 0 article edits.
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Insider: Why Nobel economist Paul Krugman thinks Trump's trade war will make Americans 'measurably poorer'
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2025· 1 entry
MarketWatch: Paul Krugman thinks bond yields may be rising due to an ‘insanity premium’
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2024· 5 entries
New York Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury announced that Krugman was retiring as a Times columnist; His final column, titled 'Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment,' was published on December 9, 2024
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Yahoo! Sports: Paul Krugman Warns Trump's Tariff Plan Could Rewind Economic Progress 90 Years and Ignite Global Conflict: 'He Sees Everything In Terms Of Winners, Losers And Punishment'
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“killing huge numbers of civilians”
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Amidst the Gaza war, Krugman wrote that Netanyahu’s government was "killing huge numbers of civilians" but expressed skepticism at President Joe Biden’s ability to stop the body count
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Reported that "most labor economists now believe that immigrants don’t do much head-to-head competition with native-born workers; they bring different skills and take different jobs
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2023· 10 entries
“Another utility post: Truflation, a crypto-backed site that purports to offer an improved measure of inflation, doesn't offer a permalink to its estimate. But here's what it looks like”
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“Utility post: Real GDP growth in G7, IMF pre-pandemic projection vs reality”
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“Squishy numbers all around, but the point is that even given narrow concerns about potential GDP the rise in women's work was comparable to the much-hyped rise in globalization 4/”
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“Compare with globalization; a while back I did a back-of-the-envelope on the gains from hyperglobalization, putting them at around 5 percent https:// archive.nytimes.com/krugman.bl ogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/the-gains-from-hyperglobalization-wonkish/ 3/”
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“Link: https:// fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS 11300002 Given women's lower hours and earnings, a growth-accounting estimate would put the resulting rise in potential GDP ~ 5 percent, more if you consider capital endogenous 2/”
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“Utility post: I'm working on Claudia Goldin, and trying to put the economic important of rising female labor force participation in context. Between 1970 and 2000 the female LPR rose about 17 points, so an increase in overall labor supply of ~8 percent 1/”
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“Utility post; not gonna give Musk content when I can help it. Three-year inflation rates since Reagan”
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“What's happened to labor force participation”
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Markets Insider: Nobel economist Paul Krugman says there's no real risk to the dollar - unless the US defaults on its debt
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“I've been neglecting this account. Testing whether I can use it to post figures”
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2021· 1 entry
Wrote that "we will almost surely have to put a price" on greenhouse gas emissions
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2018· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Economist Paul Krugman wrote that by 2005, it would become clear that the Internet's effect on the economy is no greater than the fax machine's.” True.
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To be Apple restructuring its double Irish subsidiaries), led to the Central Bank of Ireland introducing a new economic statistic, Modified gross national income (or GNI*) to better measure the Irish economy (2016 Irish
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2017· 2 entries
Claimed: “Said there is cholera in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Predicted that Bitcoin is a more obvious bubble than housing and stated that "[t]here's been no demonstration yet that it actually is helpful in conducting economic transactions"
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2016· 2 entries
Wrote an article which criticized Bernie Sanders for his perceived lack of political realism, compared Sanders' plans for healthcare and financial reform unfavorably to those of Hillary Clinton, and cited criticisms o
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Krugman wrongly predicted in a New York Times op-ed that the markets would never recover under Trump and stated "first-pass answer is never" but retracted the call in the same publication three days later
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2015· 1 entry
Krugman noted his ambivalence about the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, as the agreement was not mainly about trade and, "whatever you may say about the benefits of free trade, most of those benefits have already bee
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded James Joyce Awards (2014).
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech in Hyde Park (2013).
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“fun and provocative, not to engage in careful forecasting”
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2012· 1 entry
Krugman praised Peter Beinart’s The Crisis of Zionism as a "brave book," criticizing the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials (2011).
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded Global Economy Prize (2010).
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And is among the most influential economists in the world
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2009· 2 entries
To be impractical and unduly favorable to Wall Street bankers
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“good guys but not as forceful as I”
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
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Awarded Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2008).
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Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography
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2007· 1 entry
Krugman published The Conscience of a Liberal, whose title refers to Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2006).
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Krugman wrote: "[i]mmigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants
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“[i]mmigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants. That”
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Questioned the usefulness of NASA's crewed space flights given the available technology and their high financial cost compared to their general benefits
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2002· 2 entries
“s columns grew angrier and more focused on the administration. As Alan Blinder put it in 2002,”
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"There's been a kind of missionary quality to his writing since then
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded H. C. Recktenwald Prize in Economics (2000).
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Addressed business and economic issues, but as the 2000 US presidential campaign progressed, Krugman increasingly focused on George W
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Krugman joined Princeton University as Professor of Economics and International Affairs, where he remained until June 2015
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1999· 1 entry
Near the height of the dot-com bubble, The New York Times approached Krugman to write a bi-weekly column on "the vagaries of business and economics in an age of prosperity"
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1998· 1 entry
During the dot-com bubble, Krugman wrote a commentary for Red Herring that urged skepticism of optimistic predictions for technology-driven progress
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1996· 1 entry
Newsweek's Michael Hirsh remarked, "Say this for Krugman: though an unabashed liberal
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Adam Smith Award (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
Krugman criticized the notion of national competitiveness, particularly comparisons of nations as competing corporations
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1993· 2 entries
“Quem não aprende com a história está condenado a errar novamente. Eis o que já foi dito da crise do Oriente Médio e o que se diz agora.”
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“Paul Krugman, economista e professor do MIT, errando ao prever um crash na Bolsa de Nova York”
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1991· 1 entry
Won John Bates Clark Medal (1991).
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1987· 1 entry
Quipped that, "If there were an Economist's Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations 'I understand the Principle of Comparative Advantage' and 'I advocate Free Trade'
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1986).
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1978· 1 entry
Krugman presented a number of ideas to Dornbusch, who flagged as interesting the idea of a monopolistically competitive trade model
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1977· 2 entries
Completed his PhD with a thesis titled Essays on Flexible Exchange Rates
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974–1977).
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1974· 2 entries
Studied at Grace Hopper College (1970–1974).
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Krugman earned his BA summa cum laude in economics from Yale University, where he was a National Merit Scholar
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-02-28.
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1914· 1 entry
His maternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ukraine, while in 1920, his paternal grandparents arrived from Belarus
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