Paul Krugman
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467 appearances
13 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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So look, inequality, and I think this is an issue.
I think people are, whether or not they frame it that way, the fact that there's so much spectacular
inequality and perceived, and I think, true unfairness out there, this is one of those things that governments need to do.
Now, whether we are able to get our act together, I think it was kind of a miracle that we dealt with those tensions so well, you know, in my grandfather's generation.
But maybe we should do it again.
We need to move towards equality.
historically, have always basically been associated with wars.
Absolutely, yeah.
And there's the old joke, sorry, European, people who work at the European Commission say that they should have a statue in front of the Berlaymont headquarters, a statue of Joseph Stalin, without whom none of this would have been possible.
Okay.
I mean, there's a pretty good
analytical doctrine called functional finance, which is not MMT, although there is a whole other thing, but which says that the number doesn't matter, right?
So just think about the macroeconomics.
And I don't think that's entirely true, but it's largely true.
As long as you're not having uncontrollable inflation, particularly countries that issue debt in their own currency have a lot of running room.
And
I mean, the max, I think the max debt number we've ever seen as a share of GDP would be the UK, which came out of World War II with debt at 250% of GDP.
So, you know, more than double the current U.S.
level.
And there was no debt crisis.
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