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Distinguished Professor of Economics, CUNY
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Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Paul Krugman (Distinguished Professor of Economics, CUNY) talking, from an interview on Prof G Markets published Dec 5, 2025.
What Paul Krugman said
The Economic Risks Keeping Paul Krugman Up at Night | Prof G Markets
3 moments · 16 min
- 39:38
Climate damage accumulates, while clean energy offers a path forward
“a persistent 150 basis point rise in the rate of productivity growth in the United States would make a lot of our economic problems just melt away.”
at 41:18 - 11:14
Relative poverty better captures exclusion than a single income cutoff
“Most countries actually measure... poverty quite differently. They'd say that poverty is having less than half the median income.”
at 12:35 - 29:51
Wall Street sees political risk in Washington more clearly than tech
“Silicon Valley used to think that it was a libertarian paradise and didn't need government”
at 33:10
- 39:38