# Paul Krugman

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/paul-krugman/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

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.

- Role: Distinguished Professor of Economics, CUNY

## What Paul Krugman said

- [Climate damage accumulates, while clean energy offers a path forward](https://realalpha.app/s/climate-damage-accumulates-while-clean-energy-offers-a-path/)
  Prof G Markets · Dec 5, 2025 · 6 min
  > “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.” — Paul Krugman · [41:18](https://realalpha.app/v/DQFkezP6qSg/?t=2478)
- [Relative poverty better captures exclusion than a single income cutoff](https://realalpha.app/s/relative-poverty-better-captures-exclusion-than-a-single/)
  Prof G Markets · Dec 5, 2025 · 5 min
  > “Most countries actually measure... poverty quite differently. They'd say that poverty is having less than half the median income.” — Paul Krugman · [12:35](https://realalpha.app/v/DQFkezP6qSg/?t=755)
- [Wall Street sees political risk in Washington more clearly than tech](https://realalpha.app/s/wall-street-sees-political-risk-in-washington-more-clearly/)
  Prof G Markets · Dec 5, 2025 · 5 min
  > “Silicon Valley used to think that it was a libertarian paradise and didn't need government” — Paul Krugman · [33:10](https://realalpha.app/v/DQFkezP6qSg/?t=1990)

## The episode

- [The Economic Risks Keeping Paul Krugman Up at Night | Prof G Markets](https://realalpha.app/v/DQFkezP6qSg/) · Prof G Markets · Dec 5, 2025