Paul Krugman
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467 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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A six-month shutdown would have been really, really bad.
So it's significant.
It's bigger than the standard macroeconomic analyses would suggest.
Well, there's two things I would say.
First, the shutdown, at least the chosen issue, involved health insurance, involved the enhanced benefits, which are going away on the Affordable Care Act.
And Democrats caved on that.
So 22 million Americans who have subsidized Obamacare
insurance are about to see or in the process of seeing gigantic increases in their health insurance premiums, an average of 114%, according to Kaiser Family Foundation.
And that is happening.
That's happening despite the fact that the shutdown is over.
So that's a pretty big factor.
That's a pretty big hit, certainly, to the finances of a lot of families and probably some knock-on effects on the economy as a whole.
The other thing you see is that people are really, really down on the economy.
I mean, we talked about a vibe session under Biden, but the vibe session now, I mean, the economy ain't as great as Trump claims.
Grocery prices are not, in fact, way down.
But people are really, really negative.
We have the worst consumer sentiment about current economic conditions basically ever.
Not just worse than 2022 when we had 9% inflation, but worse than the aftermath of the financial crisis, worse than the stagflation of 1980.
People are really, really down on this economy.
And I have to say, I don't think that the way this drama has been playing out is going to change that.
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