US EditionNobel Prize-Winning Economist Shreds Trump Over This 'Completely Insane' Move
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman condemns Trump's attempt to dismiss Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, highlighting the importance of Fed independence and lack of just cause for removal.
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'Banana republic type stuff': Nobel economist Paul Krugman blows up at Trump on CNN
A prominent economist bashed President Donald Trump's attempts to fire a Federal Reserve governor on Tuesday. Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work on trade theory, discussed Trump's efforts to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve with CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead." Krugman said Trump has presented "no evidence" that Cook did anything that would warrant her being removed from her job for cause, as he's claimed, and that…
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Nobel Prize-winning economist is shocked by Trump's Fed firingThis could go very, very wrong. This is the warning from one of the world's leading economists, Professor Paul Krugman, after US President Donald Trump
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