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Are we returning to the late ’90s high interest rate era?

I’m starting to wonder whether high interest rates might last a lot longer than many people, including me, have been predicting.

yesterday 8

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

Stuck ships and supply chain inflation

It has been a week since the container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It’s still stuck there, and the images continue...

05.04.2024 10

WA Today

Paul Krugman

Stuck ships and supply chain inflation

It has been a week since the container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It’s still stuck there, and the images continue...

05.04.2024 30

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Krugman

Stuck ships and supply chain inflation

It has been a week since the container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It’s still stuck there, and the images continue...

05.04.2024 10

The Age

Paul Krugman

Stuck ships and supply chain inflation

It has been a week since the container ship Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It’s still stuck there, and the images continue...

05.04.2024 8

Brisbane Times

Paul Krugman

Donald Trump is a fake tough guy on China

A persistent theme in Republican campaigning these past few years has been the effort to portray Democrats in general, and President Joe Biden in...

01.04.2024 10

WA Today

Paul Krugman

Donald Trump is a fake tough guy on China

A persistent theme in Republican campaigning these past few years has been the effort to portray Democrats in general, and President Joe Biden in...

01.04.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Krugman

Donald Trump is a fake tough guy on China

A persistent theme in Republican campaigning these past few years has been the effort to portray Democrats in general, and President Joe Biden in...

01.04.2024 10

The Age

Paul Krugman

Donald Trump is a fake tough guy on China

A persistent theme in Republican campaigning these past few years has been the effort to portray Democrats in general, and President Joe Biden in...

01.04.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Paul Krugman

Bidenomics is making China angry. That’s OK.

Biden’s China policy is so tough that it makes me, someone who generally favours a rules-based system, nervous.

30.03.2024 10

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

Reminder: Trump’s last year in office was a national nightmare

The ex-president and his surrogates are trying to pull off an even more impressive act of revisionism: portraying his entire presidency as pure...

09.03.2024 10

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

Why Biden should talk up US economic success

For one thing, when has being humble about the economy ever worked as a political strategy?

14.02.2024 4

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

China’s economy is in serious trouble. It could soon be everyone’s problem

In 2023, the US economy vastly outperformed expectations. A widely predicted recession never happened. Many economists (though not me) argued that...

28.01.2024 10

WA Today

Paul Krugman

China’s economy is in serious trouble. It could soon be everyone’s problem

In 2023, the US economy vastly outperformed expectations. A widely predicted recession never happened. Many economists (though not me) argued that...

28.01.2024 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Krugman

China’s economy is in serious trouble. It could soon be everyone’s problem

In 2023, the US economy vastly outperformed expectations. A widely predicted recession never happened. Many economists (though not me) argued that...

28.01.2024 20

The Age

Paul Krugman

China’s economy is in serious trouble. It could soon be everyone’s problem

In 2023, the US economy vastly outperformed expectations. A widely predicted recession never happened. Many economists (though not me) argued that...

28.01.2024 10

Brisbane Times

Paul Krugman

Is the ‘vibecession’ finally coming to an end?

Consumer sentiment has soared over the past two months, while expected inflation has plunged. Suddenly, Americans are sounding more positive about the...

23.01.2024 8

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

China’s economy is in trouble, and it’s everyone’s problem

China’s economic rivals should not gloat. There will be trouble if Beijing tries to export its way out of a failing model.

21.01.2024 10

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

Why the US Federal Reserve may be Trump’s next target

Interest rates in the world’s largest economy are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this year (at...

10.01.2024 10

WA Today

Paul Krugman

Why the US Federal Reserve may be Trump’s next target

Interest rates in the world’s largest economy are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this year (at...

10.01.2024 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Krugman

Why the US Federal Reserve may be Trump’s next target

Interest rates in the world’s largest economy are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this year (at...

10.01.2024 7

The Age

Paul Krugman

Why the US Federal Reserve may be Trump’s next target

Interest rates in the world’s largest economy are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this year (at...

10.01.2024 5

Brisbane Times

Paul Krugman

America is on the mend. But do the voters believe it?

The resilience of the US economy and society during and after the pandemic has been remarkable. But so is the pessimism of ordinary people.

07.01.2024 10

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

America is on the mend. But do their voters believe it?

The resilience of the US economy and society during and after the pandemic has been remarkable. But so is the pessimism of ordinary people.

07.01.2024 9

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

A Christmas gift from the bond market

There’s no real reason for yields to have plunged since October, argues Paul Krugman: “My guess is that we’re mainly looking at market...

23.12.2023 30

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

Beware economists who won’t admit they were wrong

From an economic point of view, 2023 will go down in the record books as one of the best years ever.

20.12.2023 7

Financial Review

Paul Krugman

Are high interest rates the new normal?

Goodbye, inflation. Hello, unsustainable debt. If you’ve spent any substantial amount of time engaged in discourse about the economy — and I,...

03.10.2023 6

The Age

Paul Krugman

Are high interest rates the new normal?

Goodbye, inflation. Hello, unsustainable debt. If you’ve spent any substantial amount of time engaged in discourse about the economy — and I,...

03.10.2023 4

Brisbane Times

Paul Krugman

Are high interest rates the new normal?

Goodbye, inflation. Hello, unsustainable debt. If you’ve spent any substantial amount of time engaged in discourse about the economy — and I,...

03.10.2023 5

WA Today

Paul Krugman

Are high interest rates the new normal?

Goodbye, inflation. Hello, unsustainable debt. If you’ve spent any substantial amount of time engaged in discourse about the economy — and I,...

03.10.2023 7

The Sydney Morning Herald

Paul Krugman

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