Paul Krugman

@pkrugman.bsky.social

Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.

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Watch Stone Center Senior Scholar @pkrugman.bsky.social discuss geoeconomics at last week's ECB Annual Research Conference. "Once you start turning trade relations into a source of geopolitical power, you might find yourself starting to do other things in pursuit of geopolitical power."

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Zipf’s law drives anyone who thinks too much about it into gibbering madness

David Roberts@volts.wtf

In our conversation Krugman mentioned Zipf's Law & it's blowing my mind a little. The most common word in a language is 2X as common as the second most, 3X as common as the third most. The biggest city in a country is 2X as big as the second biggest, 3X as big as the third. And so on. 🤯

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So, I almost never use dictation software. But I was in a mood today and tried for bit. “Strait of Hormuz” came out “street of hormones,” which kind of makes sense …

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Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump have already jumped. But what should really terrify Republicans is RBOB — the futures price on wholesale gasoline. This is up 75 cents a gallon since its low earlier this year.

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