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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 6d

Join us online Tues, 10/7, 6:30pm (in-person RSVPS are full) – AI and the Future of Work – feat. @dacemoglumit.bsky.social, @pkrugman.bsky.social, Danielle Li, @zey.bsky.social & @sgreenhouse.bsky.social – reserve now: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an... @stone-lis.bsky.social @cuny.edu #AI #jobs

AI and the Future of Work

In-person reservations for this event are currently full, but please join the livestream.Proshansky Auditorium

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 26d

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Paul Krugman replies to Scott Bessent’s diatribe against the Fed.

Scott Bessent, Sleazy Smearer

About the Treasury secretary’s vile, dishonest slander of the Fed

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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality @stone-lis.bsky.social · 29d

Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
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Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Sep 6

The depravity of Senate Republicans, in two screenshots

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 29

And I was planning a quiet evening ... paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-emergen...

An Emergency non-Emergency Post

Holy tariff mess, Batman

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 28

I have an unusual problem with the elimination of the "de minimis" tariff exemption. When I give talks abroad, the host often offers a lovely but awkward gift — say, a 20 lb coffee table book on the history of their city. So I ask them to mail it. No more. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Postal services around the world suspend deliveries to US: how will it affect you?

Suspensions including from Australia and Europe come after Donald Trump removed a rule exempting parcels worth less than US$800 from his tariffs

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 28

The muted market reaction to The Crazy doesn't tell you much about what will happen. Markets almost *never* react in advance to large but only potential disruptions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

Why Aren’t Markets Freaking Out?

Of Trump, Keynes and Wile E. Coyote

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 26

And a friend sends me this, from a prominent crypto bro 2/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/

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In the Matter of Lisa Cook

Trump’s attempt to fire a Fed governor is illegal. Now we find out whether that matters.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

We Are All Lisa Cook

Nobody is safe from weaponized government

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 24

Stagflation in some form is coming. The trillion-dollar question is whether inflation becomes entrenched paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...

The Economics of Stagflation, Part II

What will follow the Trump shock?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 24

"Companies were reluctant to pass price hikes into stores, because they didn't want to make customers mad and lose market share. It's only now really sinking in that this is for real, and so the 'let's eat the tariffs for a while' thing is fading out." — @pkrugman.bsky.social

Paul Krugman on Trump's economic house of cards

"The thing that’s extra damaging now is the craziness."

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 22

The only thing that can stop the renewables revolution is heavy-handed political intervention. Unfortunately ... 3/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 22

One thing I see in comments is a lot of people still saying solar and wind are no good when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. People, there are these things called batteries, which have also experienced huge progress 2/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 22

I wrote about the imaginary New Jersey windmills of Trump's mind and other topics 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/kilowatt-m...

Kilowatt Madness

Trump’s electricity crisis — and ours

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 22

New in PN: @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump's teetering economy

"The thing that’s extra damaging now is the craziness. Nobody knows what the tariff rates will be in six months. That means a lot of cash sits on the sidelines."

Paul Krugman on Trump's economic house of cards

"The thing that’s extra damaging now is the craziness."

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 20

This means that the concentration of undocumented immigrants (and legal immigrants likely to get deported anyway) magnifies the overall economic cost. Deport half a percent of the work force? Not good. Deport 50% of agricultural workers, which is the same number? Very, very bad 3/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 20

For econ nerds: The economic cost of deportations, like the economic cost of tariffs, is very nonlinear in the scale of the policy. Deporting 10% of an industry's workers is much more than twice as costly as deporting 5% 2/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 20

Deportations and detentions will inflict a lot of damage on the US economy 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/iceing-the...

ICEing the U.S. Economy

Mass deportations will hurt more than people realize

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is the way the bubble ends: Not with a pop, but with smog and brownouts. [Disappointed that some readers didn't recognize the TS Eliot ref]

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What Happens If AI Hits An Energy Wall?

The technology driving the economy has some big problems

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · Aug 19

Murder is now well below even pre-COVID levels nationally through June in the latest RTCI sample.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 18

Apparently some people over here don't know that I'm posting almost daily on Substack. It's free 6 days a week, with only the Sunday primers (which are very labor-intensive) paywalled. According to the U.S. politics bestseller list, this venture is going pretty well

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 18

It looks even worse when you add in the Trump administration's efforts to undermine renewable energy, which is at this point the main driver of increases in generation capacity 2/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 18

Others have pointed this out, but once you start thinking about the *physical* footprint of AI, especially power consumption, the predicted boom starts to look very problematic 1/
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AI Is Power-Hungry

And consumers are paying the price

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