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Renowned economist predicts Trump's mistakes will impact U.S. credibility
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warned damage from President Donald Trump's failed Iran war will outlast his presidency, leaving America diminished globally for years. In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent on his "Daily Blast" podcast, Krugman dismissed Trump's victory claims as detached from reality and deemed Iran the winner. "Iran is in a much stronger position and the U.S. in a much weaker position than before the war started," he said.Krugman characterized the ceasefire deal as vastly inferior to Former President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement, noting the conflict cost lives and exposed American power limits. Krugman also challenged Trump's economic boasts, citing slower job growth than Former President Joe Biden's final years, flat unemployment, and lower real wages due to accumulated inflation. The famed economist argued stock market gains reflect a global rally, not Trump-specific policies. Most critically, Krugman warned the erosion of American credibility — from abandoning agreements, to allies questioning U.S. reliability — he said, "It took generations to build the reputation of America. You don’t get that back unless you give us three generations of good governance from here on in."He also described Trump as experiencing a steep mental decline, desperate for legacy validation."Everything Trump touches turns to crud," Krugman said.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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Nobel Prize winner issues major prediction about impacts of Trump's 'screwups'
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman warned the damage from President Trump's failed war in Iran — and his broader approach to governing — will outlast his presidency, leaving the U.S. diminished on the world stage for years to come.In an interview with The New Republic's Greg Sargent on his "Daily Blast" podcast, Krugman dismissed Trump's claims of victory in Iran as detached from reality."Iran won," Krugman said. "Iran is in a much stronger position and the U.S. in a much weaker position than before the war started."Krugman called the resulting ceasefire deal "vastly inferior" to the Obama-era nuclear agreement Trump abandoned during his first term, adding that the conflict cost lives, depleted weapons stockpiles, and exposed the limits of American power."He could have just done nothing — that would have been better," he said.The conversation centered on a series of early-morning social media posts in which Trump demanded credit for the outcome and touted economic gains. Krugman pushed back point by point, noting that job growth has actually been slower than in the last two years under Biden, with unemployment essentially flat and real wages lower due to inflation accumulated since Trump took office, and he argued stock market gains reflect a global rally rather than anything specific to Trump's policies."The stock market is up, no question about that," Krugman said. "Although the stock market rose a lot under Joe Biden, too, Trump would like you to put that down the memory hole. Stocks are up, by the way, around the world. There’s a stock market boom. I haven’t checked the numbers lately, but I believe that they’re up substantially more outside the United States than inside the United States."Krugman framed Trump's behavior as part of a broader pattern of decline, arguing the war revealed that the U.S. could not impose its will on a "third-rate military power" and that American allies increasingly understand they don't need Washington — citing Ukraine's continued resistance despite a U.S. cutoff of arms and funding. He warned this erosion of credibility is not easily reversible."There’s a lot that has obviously been made much worse by Trump screwups," Krugman said. "What the world now has to suspect, even when Trump is gone from the stage, is who’s the next guy? How do we know that we won’t have another Trump-like figure? Does an agreement with America mean anything, since we’ve just seen an American president rip up every agreement that we had?""We don’t get that back," he added. "It took generations to build the reputation of America. You don’t get that back unless you give us three generations of good governance from here on in."Krugman was equally blunt about Trump personally, describing him as someone living through a kind of public unraveling."If you look at some of those late-night tweets, the tweets we’re talking about here, you kind of get hit by a real dose of somebody in very steep mental decline," he said. "It’s sort of two-layered. On the one hand, it’s the sheer nakedness of the demand for adulation, which is just completely crazy. Somebody who’s sunsetting very plainly in plain sight, who knows he’s on his way out and is desperate to have something that he can call a legacy. That’s what we see there.""But at the same time, you also see him completely detached from the reality of what he’s actually done to us," Krugman added. "What he’s done to you and me, to liberal America, to blue America, even to red America, even to MAGA country."Krugman highlighted the administration's renovation of the National Mall's Reflecting Pool — drained, repainted and resealed, only to be overtaken again by algae — as an almost literary metaphor. "Everything Trump touches turns to crud," he said.
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Colombia Presidential Election Underway – Abelardo de la Espriella -VS- Ivan Cepeda
The next nation in our hemisphere to determine the political direction appears in Colombia, where MAGA aligned Albelardo Espriella is facing socialist aligned Ivan Cepeda, the favorite of the current socialist leadership. Espirella has surged in support as the popular candidate amid promises to deliver El Salvador like criminal confrontations, and market capitalism rejection of […] The post Colombia Presidential Election Underway – Abelardo de la Espriella -VS- Ivan Cepeda appeared first on The Last Refuge.
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Conservative economist predicts Trump will spur 'massive money printing' and soaring costs
Economist Peter Schiff is warning that the federal government's yawning budget gap will be papered over with a flood of newly printed money, and that ordinary Americans will pay for it through prices that could eventually double.The chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific Asset Management laid out the math in a post on Saturday. In May, he wrote, the government spent $628 billion while collecting just $335 billion in taxes, a shortfall so large that balancing the budget would require tax revenue to nearly double. Schiff does not believe that will happen, and his prediction for what comes instead is blunt. "Since that won't happen," he wrote, "massive money printing will cover the shortfall, sending consumer prices doubling instead."In other words, Schiff is arguing that the administration faces a politically impossible choice and will take the path of least resistance. Rather than impose a tax increase steep enough to close the gap, which he later estimated at roughly 50 percent once seasonal revenue is accounted for, he expects the government to monetize the debt. The cost of that decision, in his telling, does not disappear. It simply shows up at the grocery store and the gas pump instead of on a tax bill.The thread drew agreement from others who share Schiff's hard-money outlook.Where Schiff went further than some observers was on the political fallout. When one user argued that doubling taxes was "virtually impossible" and would "absolutely cause massive unrest," recommending spending cuts instead, Schiff agreed the unrest is coming either way. "Yes, but they won't" cut spending, he replied, predicting that the government "will still get unrest, but they will blame it on inflation." The implication is that the administration will treat rising prices as an external force to be managed rather than the predictable result of its own fiscal choices.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham predicts Iran peace talks will fail — and Trump will take Strait of Hormuz ‘by force’
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that he thinks the US peace talks with Iran are going to fail -- and that President Trump is going to seize the Strait of Hormuz "by force."
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Belgium vs. Iran World Cup prediction: Odds, picks, best bet for Group G match on Sunday
Belgium and Iran will want to wash the bitter tastes out of their mouths on Sunday.
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