Paul Krugman

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467 appearances 13 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 3 Jun

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Bloomberg Talks · Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor of Economics Paul Krugman Talks SCOTUS · 21 Feb 2026 podcast

I mean, if the tariffs weren't there, the Fed would probably have lowered rates already and so on.

But it's certainly, it is a

A significant increase in the cost of living, not a gigantic increase in the cost of living, but everybody's cost of living is somewhat higher because of these tariffs.

And, you know, that will go away.

But these other tariffs would also be a tax on on the American people.

And so, yeah.

Well, Paul, we only have about a minute left, but you said that will go away in reference to the cost of living.

And I want to ask you about your confidence there, because when a company raises prices, they tend to be sticky.

Do you have confidence that some of the corporations that have raised prices in response to tariffs actually will lower them?

Well, that's always a question.

But, you know, we have ongoing inflation running at about 3% a year.

So all that has to happen is for companies not to raise prices as much as they would have.

So all of this plays out a little bit over the course of, let's say, a year.

So I don't have much doubt that we will, in fact.

But, of course, if this is a net reduction in tariffs, because Trump is basically proposing a new set of tariffs to make up for the loss of the old ones.

So any consumer relief may be very short-lived here.

Bloomberg News Now · February 5, 2026: Market Selloff on AI Impact, Amazon $200B Spending Plan, More · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

A lot of people sold Bitcoin as being the next gold.

And it turns out that in the face of doubts about stability, doubts about politics, the next gold turns out to be gold, not Bitcoin.

I think it's a big wake up for people that maybe this isn't actually going to be an enduring asset.

Bloomberg News Now · Market Selloff Builds, Amazon to Ramp Up AI Spending, More · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

A lot of people sold Bitcoin as being the next gold.

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