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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But something like that, inflation, basically keep inflation low enough that people are not constantly thinking about it.
The right level of inflation is low enough so that it does not become a major source of, major use of cognitive energy.
And as full employment as you can manage.
And that's where they will set, that's what will determine where they set interest rates.
They will judge it wrong sometimes because they are, actually, the dirty little secret of all this stuff is that Jerome Powell has no, essentially no information that
anybody who knows how to use, you know, knows how to use FRED, the Federal Reserve database doesn't have.
And so they'll get along.
But I don't think now the labor market disruption issue, not really.
I mean, we did have a big labor market disruption as we came out of COVID because the mix of stuff that people wanted to buy was very different.
And we had a period when we had a really high ratio of
unfilled job openings to people looking for jobs, which was transitional and probably, you know, and the Fed raised interest rates in part because that seemed to be kind of inflationary.
But that problem has kind of solved itself for the time being.
Now, if AI could produce another
Similar disruption, though unlikely to go as quickly.
But I don't think, you know, the Fed has got one dial to turn.
Central banks, you know, the overnight interest rate.
And there's only so many problems you can solve with only one dial.
Well, this is right up my alley.
I mean, so half the Swedish thing he was for work on exactly this kind of issue.
To a first approximation, the answer is we can't do that.
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