2026-09-19 12:09 UTC
“…it turns out that everything has a flaw and a [trade policy] system which was extremely effective in the past was almost custom designed to empower the current administration to do a lot of really destructive stuff.”
—Paul Krugman, Economic Size and Economic Power
#trump #usa #trade
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@janhoglund@mastodon.nu 2026-09-19 12:13
“…authoritarian regimes have no dissent but are more fragile… I think on balance, it turns out that democracies are frustrating and they debate and they sometimes are slow, but they are actually much more effective in conflict than people imagine.” —Paul Krugman, Economic Size and Economic Power #democracy #autocracy