Paul Krugman
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467 appearances
13 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
Paul Krugman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, you can argue that there was a fair bit of financial repression and controls.
But, you know, we haven't lost the ability to do that if necessary.
But in any case, I don't think that was the issue.
I think there were...
you know, it's imprudent to just keep on running up that debt-to-GEP ratio.
But there is not a hint in anything I can see that we're hitting any kind of limit.
You know, people who bet against JGBs or against Japanese debt because of their debt levels have just lost money and lost money and lost money over the years.
It's...
Advanced countries with stable governments that borrow on their own currency just have far more fiscal space than most people tend to imagine.
Yeah, well, although I have to say that the reason that Liz Truss lost the race with a head of lettuce as to who would survive longer
There was, I think the UK economists were calling it the moron premium.
I mean, it wasn't simply that her plans looked fiscally irresponsible.
They looked stupid.
And now, of course, stupidity always comes along.
But I don't think that was a fair test, really, of the sustainable level of debt.
I mean, the Fed is, look, they have
as they should, a dual mandate.
They're supposed to achieve full employment or sustainably full employment, and they're supposed to have low inflation.
And there's a target of 2%
which is rather arbitrary and is one of the few things in the world that you can really blame on New Zealand, which is a whole story.
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