And, DOGE is not a real Government agency. Department Heads need to keep defying their “orders” and lock out the traitors tots that keep showing up to peep into their files and computer systems.
I love Krugman's humanity and humility. He sees himself as part of our society, not apart from it. He recognizes privilege and speaks in a way that can reach the average person. Thank you for this interview. He is an American treasure (I say this as a proud Canadian).
Substack is one of the best things that's happened, IMO Where else can you find such a collection of excellent writers who know their stuff? I hope it has a very long life!
1. This is how social media should operate - no revenues from external advertisers, but sustain yourselves from (overheads of) opinion leaders who have premium followership. Allow any member free limited followership - typically friends, family, say up to 100 or couple of 100s followers. Beyond that someone has to pay: content providers or followers. It's total nonsense that BS is freely accessible to unlimited number of clueless readers.
2. Would love to see some co-op based subscription to Substack authors. For example, love to read Paul Krugman, Jen Rubin, Robert Reich, and others but $70-per-pop is too much for my budget. Perhaps subscriptions through your community library? Whatever, just figure it out.
Immigrants don't just feed us, they also pay taxes....which pays for Social Security, Medicare, etc. If only the Democrats had stood up for immigrants and reforming immigration policy during the last election.
I love both Paul Krugman and Andy Borowitz for their excellent writing! Today i was surprised that Paul Krugman said he thought the heavy editing of his columns at the NYT was not political. I have noticed that the NYT has been moving to right for a long time. Also, Paul Krugman did recently write that the NYT edited his op-ed pieces so as to not “rile up the right.” My question is, WHY is the NYT doing this?
My wife wrote for the Times as well, on women’s health. She is an MD and had similar problems as Krugman in that the editors thought they knew more about women’s health than she did. She also had a strong Twitter presence so she knew what was going on around women’s health in the popular culture, yet they always knew better. It’s possible there is alignment between the Dunning/Kruger attitude that you might know more than a Nobel Prize winning economist or an OB/GYN with 30 years experience and the kind of incompetent idiots who have ended up both supporting or even in the trump administration.
I think it's a good question, along with, "Why does reporting white-wash events?" If you are going to both-sides everything, present both sides and don't take a position. "This was viewed by some as a clear violation of the US Constitution, while others claim that violating the Constitution is acceptable because then they own the libs," would be a good example.
Wall Street. NYT has never been willing to take a true populist bent and criticize the insanity of The Second Gilded Age we now find ourselves in. I have hung on to my subscription for now because SOMETIMES there is still stellar and in-depth reporting you can't get eleswhere. I cancelled WP back when Bezos refused to allow endorsement of Kamala. Time will tell (pun intended) on my Times subscription.
Question for Prof Krugman - taxing imports (tariffs) that raises cost for everyone to fund income tax cuts that disproportionately favors richer folks more, won’t that worsen income inequality? Or maybe that is the point?
The scariest part of Tim Snyder's piece for me was his mention of Hitler wanting to eradicate the Jews to get the minerals under "the thin crust of land." I could not avoid seeing this as part of Trump's ongoing playbook in his current minerals quest. Suddenly this is personal.....
Why do we keep forgetting to cry out that Musk et al has no statutory authority to fire (or hire) anyone. These are ILLEGAL terminations.
And, DOGE is not a real Government agency. Department Heads need to keep defying their “orders” and lock out the traitors tots that keep showing up to peep into their files and computer systems.
Apparently, legal and illegal have no hold on this shite show of an administration
I love Krugman's humanity and humility. He sees himself as part of our society, not apart from it. He recognizes privilege and speaks in a way that can reach the average person. Thank you for this interview. He is an American treasure (I say this as a proud Canadian).
...nice, but guilty...
About sums it up for this boomer too! Not to mention that I see the POTUS 47 phenomena as a reflection of all of us in the West.
Substack is one of the best things that's happened, IMO Where else can you find such a collection of excellent writers who know their stuff? I hope it has a very long life!
Two comments on Substack:
1. This is how social media should operate - no revenues from external advertisers, but sustain yourselves from (overheads of) opinion leaders who have premium followership. Allow any member free limited followership - typically friends, family, say up to 100 or couple of 100s followers. Beyond that someone has to pay: content providers or followers. It's total nonsense that BS is freely accessible to unlimited number of clueless readers.
2. Would love to see some co-op based subscription to Substack authors. For example, love to read Paul Krugman, Jen Rubin, Robert Reich, and others but $70-per-pop is too much for my budget. Perhaps subscriptions through your community library? Whatever, just figure it out.
Immigrants don't just feed us, they also pay taxes....which pays for Social Security, Medicare, etc. If only the Democrats had stood up for immigrants and reforming immigration policy during the last election.
They did.
Not very much. The Republicans kept slamming home how much immigrants are getting from America as benefits.
And we know that’s largely bs.
It seemed to me that they did.
However Trump & Vance drowned everyone else out.
Immigrants also pay way more into the system than they take out even accounting for education and medicaid.
Yesss!!
I love both Paul Krugman and Andy Borowitz for their excellent writing! Today i was surprised that Paul Krugman said he thought the heavy editing of his columns at the NYT was not political. I have noticed that the NYT has been moving to right for a long time. Also, Paul Krugman did recently write that the NYT edited his op-ed pieces so as to not “rile up the right.” My question is, WHY is the NYT doing this?
Canceled The Times, too.
My wife wrote for the Times as well, on women’s health. She is an MD and had similar problems as Krugman in that the editors thought they knew more about women’s health than she did. She also had a strong Twitter presence so she knew what was going on around women’s health in the popular culture, yet they always knew better. It’s possible there is alignment between the Dunning/Kruger attitude that you might know more than a Nobel Prize winning economist or an OB/GYN with 30 years experience and the kind of incompetent idiots who have ended up both supporting or even in the trump administration.
I think it's a good question, along with, "Why does reporting white-wash events?" If you are going to both-sides everything, present both sides and don't take a position. "This was viewed by some as a clear violation of the US Constitution, while others claim that violating the Constitution is acceptable because then they own the libs," would be a good example.
Wall Street. NYT has never been willing to take a true populist bent and criticize the insanity of The Second Gilded Age we now find ourselves in. I have hung on to my subscription for now because SOMETIMES there is still stellar and in-depth reporting you can't get eleswhere. I cancelled WP back when Bezos refused to allow endorsement of Kamala. Time will tell (pun intended) on my Times subscription.
Because print newspapers are a dying dinosaur. They cant afford to lose readers. People get most news online or from tv.
Don’t feel guilty — but, yeah, it’s a shitshow here in America. 😳
Meanwhile, Trump sharpens his golf skills
RIGSHT???!!! WTF IS THAT??!!!! And Republicans say nooooothinnnng!!
With the stock market tanking, they may feel some pressure
And he lies about that too! Best golfer ever! 😂
By cheating??
The Shit Show is very deliberate. Putin has many moles in our government. One of them is orange.
An orange mole. Definitely ought to get that excised.
Paul is a regular guy who wipes his mouth on his sleeve just like me.
Thanks Andy! Great stuff with professor Krugman.
Only one suggestion--practice how you turn off your AV at the end of the show.....
Annoying background voice noise.
I noticed that too.... not sure where it was coming from
Microphone feedback from guest. Sometimes hardware, sometimes internet.
Even if Trump doesn't deport everyone, fear of deportation will reduce immigrant workforce.
Hooray for the wife editor 😊
The tariffs are an extortion racket
Question for Prof Krugman - taxing imports (tariffs) that raises cost for everyone to fund income tax cuts that disproportionately favors richer folks more, won’t that worsen income inequality? Or maybe that is the point?
Of course on both points.
As the professor says, the yoyo effect also reduces investment which hurts the economy.
The scariest part of Tim Snyder's piece for me was his mention of Hitler wanting to eradicate the Jews to get the minerals under "the thin crust of land." I could not avoid seeing this as part of Trump's ongoing playbook in his current minerals quest. Suddenly this is personal.....
WOW!! Congratulations on a Spectacular start!! Greatest choice to commence with and keep on goin' Andy!!