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Paul Krugman
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Paul Krugman's personal blog at paulkrugman.substack.com covers economics and politics. Since 2021, 87 different Hacker News readers have linked it 218 times, most often “The General Theory of Enshittification”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 8 of 39 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Krugman's Substack as economics commentary on tariffs, inflation and US politics, mostly as support for their own points.
- Recommended for · 8 comments
- called a helpful, recent analysis and an interesting read; one says it is well written even where they disagree
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 39 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Notes on economics and more. Click to read Paul Krugman, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- The General Theory of Enshittification6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-07-24
- /p/europe-v-america-whos-really-winning4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-02-26
- It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-08
- Ingots We Trust3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-08
- Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-21
- Will Malignant Stupidity Kill the World Economy?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-03
- A Letter to Europe You're stronger than you think. Act like it2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-27
- The Political Economy of Incompetence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-11
- Caracas on the Potomac2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-02
- It's Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-10-22
What Hacker News says?
Seems like it's at least a plausible possibility for Paul Krugman https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-k...
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on “US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU”Submitted State Terror, American Style as a story · 218 points
HN discussionAlso quoting Krugman, from today, who no longer writes for the NYT: "Which party is out of touch, again? Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York, in the face of hysterical opposition from the big money, has grabbed many of the headlines, which I understand — it’s an amazing story. And I wonder what the right-wing tech bros are thinking: If Wall Street couldn’t buy New York, can they really buy America? I’m seeing some…
Comment linking /p/which-party-is-in-trouble-again
on “Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race”Submitted We are no longer a serious country as a story · 164 points
HN discussionIf using simple metrics like GDP growth, I'm more in the camp of Paul Krugman's argument[0] that such comparisons with simple naïve metrics are insufficient to analyse it. I agree the USA has grown more steadily than the EU and the American software/tech industries have a leg up but the devil is in the details. I travel a lot for work to the USA and I do not experience what this GDP growth has brought to the US in t…
Comment linking /p/europe-v-america-whos-really-winning
on “Oceans hit highest temperature on record”Submitted America Has Become a Digital Narco-State as a story · 106 points
HN discussion> In a normal world, this would be treason by an illegal immigrant to the US. As other comments have stated, this is not treason. However, a private individual/citizen should not have the ability to dictate national security policy: * https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-to-take-starlink...
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on “Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology”Submitted Gilded Rage – Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian as a story · 86 points
HN discussionThey could do the China[1] / EU[2] strategy of announcing they'll do it, but never following through with it. When your opponent has the attention span of a drunken gnat, it's a surprisingly good strategy. [1] https://archive.ph/sAFWP [2] https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/fossil-fool
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on “US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief”Submitted Attack of the Sadistic Zombies – Paul Krugman as a story · 83 points
HN discussionKrugman recently wrote about this and argued this perception is heavily biased by poor comparative measurements: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-america-whos-rea...
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on “ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026”Submitted With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX as a story · 71 points
HN discussionSeems I'm not the only one thinking along these lines: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ai-is-power-hungry https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-happens-if-ai-hits-a... Some of the comments there call out the lack of chip fabs and express a similar suspicion that this might be a ploy to increase fossil fuel demand.
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on “Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation”Submitted China Has Overtaken America as a story · 65 points
HN discussionThe surge in services costs seems to be a bit of a surprise (?): > Services inflation provided much of the push higher, moving 1.1% higher in July for the largest gain also since March 2022. Trade services margins rose 2%, coming amid ongoing developments in President Donald Trump’s tariff implementations. > In addition, 30% of the increase in services came from a 3.8% increase in machinery and equipment wholesaling…
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on “US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years”Submitted It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation as a story · 63 points
HN discussionLet me Kagi that for you... https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-america-whos-rea...
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on “Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU”Submitted Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money? as a story · 63 points
HN discussionFor economics: * Noah Smith: f https://www.noahpinion.blog * Since he's retired from his NYT column after 25 years, Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com For personal finance / business: * https://awealthofcommonsense.com * https://ofdollarsanddata.com
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on “Ask HN: Favorite blog in 2024?”Submitted The Trump Tariffs Just Got Even Worse as a story · 49 points
HN discussionThis is a pretty good take on what is likely to be an effort that mostly is in the interests of the extremely wealthy people running it, and is a reply to the posted article: https://resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-have-to-hand-it-to... Also some useful history around "we're just going to eliminate all the waste! Easy peasy!" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fraudulence-of-waste-...
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on “Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform”Submitted It's Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI want the hype to die and the bubble to pop as much as Ed and Cory and everyone else writing about it but right now it’s just them basically recycling the same bad news and posting about it. I’d love to see some writing which looks at the factors which caused previous pops and to line them up with factors today to try and determine what’s actually coming. Clearly the market is irrational as hell right now but seemi…
Comment linking /p/why-arent-markets-freaking-out
on “The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh”Submitted What Happens When There Are No Deals? – Paul Krugman as a story · 47 points
HN discussionThis is the opinion of Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman too, in his post Crypto is for Criming https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/crypto-is-for-criming .
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on “Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat”Submitted The Hunger Games Begin as a story · 42 points
HN discussionEvidence that the Phillips Curve has never been true, even in the 1970s: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stagflation-revisited
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on “The Fed plans to sharply boost unemployment”Submitted America First? No, Billionaire Buddies First as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSure. What difference does it make if they're 1.2b or 800m? It's still huge by any metric. The current US administration is definitely clearly working in their favour. That's part of why Detusche Bank is a yuan clearing house now. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-thucydides
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on “Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe”Submitted MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science as a story · 39 points
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