Paul Krugman

Here's how Donald Trump could lose the upcoming global trade war

So the trade war is coming; in some ways it has already started. What will Mr Trump add to the story? Ignorance, lack of focus and potential cronyism. Oh, and gullibility.

The Trumpian roots of the chip crisis

The US is still paying the price of tantrum-based trade policy

Why can't America be like Italy?

These days Americans can only envy Italy's success in weathering the coronavirus pandemic

Trump hits the panic button

Why is he calling for emergency monetary stimulus? Politics

The world has a Germany problem

The debt obsession that ate the economy

2008: The first responders' view

Firefighting is a brief account of that crucial moment by three of the most important actors

After Theresa May's humiliating defeat, what's next for Britain and Europe?

The short run could be bad for the rest of Europe, too

Trump slump coming?

A return to protectionism and trade wars would make the world economy poorer over time, and would in particular cripple poorer nations that desperately need open markets for their products

Paul Krugman: Progressive family values

Child care economics is in some ways like health economics. We can't trust unregulated markets to deliver a decent outcome

Who loves America?

'Futurism' is in the past

The conscience of a liberal

Paul Krugman: Walmart's visible hand

The retailer's wage hike seems to reflect the same forces that led to the Great Compression, albeit in a much weaker form

Ending Greece's nightmare

What actually transpired was an economic and human nightmare. Far from ending in 2011, the Greek recession gathered momentum

Amazon's monopsony is not OK

Amazon, which dominates online book sales, is acting as a monopsonist, a dominant buyer with the power to push prices down

Paul Krugman: Righteousness killed the economy

The dismal science

The fear economy

When the economy is weak, workers have a very weak hand and employers are in a position to work them harder, pay them less, or both

Paul Krugman: Addicted to the apocalypse

Washington has spent the past three-plus years in terror of a debt crisis that has yet to happen, and, in fact, can't happen to a country like the United States, which has its own currency and borrows

Money, gender and 'gravitas'

Campaigns against Janet Yellen for chair of the US Federal Reserve are both sexist and wrong-headed