What would an actually good tariff policy look like? Can the U.S. ever bring back manufacturing jobs, and should it? How bad is the deficit and what can we do to address it? 

In the first episode of Solutions, Henry asks Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about the most pressing problems facing the U.S. economy — and how he would fix them.

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Paul Krugman writes a newsletter on Substack and teaches at City University of New York Graduate Center. He was a New York Times Opinion columnist from 2000 to 2025.

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