Paul Krugman

Whatever their motivations, political spending by tech bros could have huge effects on US politics

LAST week was full of speeches. Most of those that attracted national attention in the United States were at the Democratic National Convention, culminating in Vice-President Kamala Harris’ big moment...

The pragmatic case for central bank independence

Will a sluggish Fed snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?

There are many things to object to in the blueprint, foremost of which is calling for the replacement of career civil servants with political appointees

THE past two years have been very good for the US economy. Unemployment has crept up a bit, but not by a lot, and the employed share of Americans in their prime working years is higher than, to make a...

LAST week, for the first time in history, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 40,000.

Parsing the US inflation and unemployment numbers

THE United States economy has just gone through an extraordinarily successful year. Many economists (although not all of us) predicted that getting inflation under control would require a recession an...

INTEREST rates are heading down. Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of this year (at least).