Trump Calls Nobel Winner ‘Deranged Bum’ For Panning Tariff Plan
It is not every day a Nobel Prize winner is called a “deranged BUM.” But that is just what President Donald Trump called Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and former New York Times columnist, after Krugman…
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About Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. In 2008, Krugman was the sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to new trade theory and new economic geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services.
Everything about Paul Krugman →- Occupation
- columnist, economist, essayist, blogger
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 28, 1953
- Website
- https://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/