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Mehdi Hasan asks Paul Krugman about the talk of impending recession we're hearing now. Krugman replies,

"We probably are not in a recession yet. ... But look, if you look at the various – the combination of things that we're doing, they're all – it's basically – it's a stagflationary set of policies. On the one hand, you have the tariffs, which are – even the threat of tariffs is inflationary."

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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/live-with-mehdi-hasan