There are reasons to be skeptical of China’s ability to manage a declining working-age population, which tends to cause persistent economic weakness

Paul Krugman: ‘Trickle-down’ notion that cutting taxes on the rich will create an economic miracle is a classic example of a walking-dead idea

Old formula of two quarters without growth is history. Recession is a judgment call

What wealth can’t always buy is admiration. And that’s an area in which the tech titans have suffered major losses

Paul Krugman: Are the very rich pettier than the rest of us? On average, probably yes

Paul Krugman: It's time to face down corporates at zero hour for the planet

Covid-19 produced a reallocation shock as some demand surged and some slumped

Taxing multinational profits helps fix system rigged against workers in favour of capital

Paul Krugman: Bribing corporations with low taxes isn’t the way to create jobs

Personal financial trouble has always been a red flag when it comes to filling sensitive government positions because it’s an open invitation to corruption.

America’s rush to reopen the economy is a vast and dangerous experiment

The Trump administration is an anti-democratic, white nationalist regime. And while it is not (yet) explicitly anti-Semitic you have to be wilfully ignorant of the past not to know where all this leads

If even weather forecasters are expected to be apologists, corruption of institutions is complete

Some costs of German fiscal obstinacy spill over to its neighbours and wider world