Articles by Paul Krugman
Chart 1 Center for American Progress
Federal debt is in the news. There were many headlines last week about the debt exceeding $40 trillion and now being bigger than the economy. There were also heaοΏ½...
Is Russia burning?
Are we back at war with Iran? Did the war ever stop? The US is, once again, bombing Iran while Iranian drones strike shipping. Iran, giddy with its success in defying America, is οΏ½...
Still on vacation, but taking a brief vacation from the vacation to catch up on news and weigh in on something that is more important than Trumps ballroom: the ongoing consequences of Americas disastοΏ½...
When Donald Trump returned to power, Americas billionaires and the leaders of its biggest corporations rushed to prostrate themselves at his feet. Some of them, especially but not only among the techοΏ½...
Imagine what would happen if the United States were to legalize the distribution and sale of heroin and do so without any restrictions or regulations on how the drug is marketed and who can buy it.
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Source: Strength in Numbers
In October 2024, on the eve of the presidential election, the U.S. unemployment rate was 4.1 percent and the inflation rate was 2.6 percent. By historical standards, bothοΏ½...
