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Paul Krugman

16 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 12 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2018 by Paul Krugman · said 13 times in 7 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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brought up most by Noah Smith (4), Marc Andreessen (3), Sonal Chokshi (2), Ben Horowitz (2), Chris Dixon (1), Balaji Srinivasan (1)

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2019 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

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Nov 2, 2018 positive
Opinion
Paul Krugman: Haun gave the best defense of crypto he has heard
“Catherine, who gave, I think, that's the best defense of crypto that I've heard”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 35:57 3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Krugman: Significant probability Bitcoin's value eventually drops to zero
“Now, I'm not a hundred percent sure of that, but maybe, ah, ah, but I think that there's a certainly a, I would say a quite significant probability that the whole thing just drops to zero, ah, because I have not yet seen any reason why this has to be a valuabl…”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 23:40 A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
Nov 2, 2018 negative
Insight
Krugman: Severe monetary crises are political issues technology cannot fix
“Cryptocurrency is not going to put food in the stores when there's no food in the stores, right? It's not, it's a, it's not fund, Venezuela's problem is not fundamentally a monetary problem, and most really severe monetary problems are not. Most really severe …”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 12:51 A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
Nov 2, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Krugman: Hyperinflation is always tied to political and social collapse
“It's, hyperinflation never happens just because governments are untrustworthy. It's always associated with political and social collapse.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 12:38 A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
Nov 2, 2018
Insight
Krugman: High remittance costs stem from market power and regulation
“In fact, I know it's not inherent in the technology of conventional banking. I suspect it has to do with a combination of market power, but also largely, you know, government enforced barriers, particularly government barriers that reinforce that market power.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 13:42 A Skeptic's View of Crypto (from the Point of View of Monetary Economics)
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Prediction Held up
Paul Krugman predicts blockchain will not undermine Amazon or tech incumbents
“I don't believe that blockchain is going to undermine Amazon or any of these people, because The reason I use Amazon is not because of power, or the, not the power of Amazon, but the power of laziness.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 24:12 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Assertion Supported
Paul Krugman notes Bitcoin daily transaction volume peaked in early 2018
“As best we can tell, the dollar value of bitcoin transactions peaked at the beginning of this year, and that's actually fallen substantially since then.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 4:40 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Opinion
Paul Krugman sees no sign Bitcoin is becoming a widespread payment method
“There's very little sign that it is becoming any kind of widespread means of payment, and that's 10 years on.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 4:51 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Assertion Contradicted
Paul Krugman estimates daily Bitcoin transaction volume is under $1 billion
“It looks like there's something like five hundred million to a billion dollars worth of transactions, ah, a day in Bitcoin.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 4:17 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Paul Krugman predicts most crypto projects will look like Pets.com by 2033
“My guess is, however, that I think I don't actually believe that we're at the dawn of a new age. I actually believe that we're at the that that most of this 10 years back, 15 years, 15 years from now, it will look a lot like Pets.com.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 31:02 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Opinion
Paul Krugman says crypto offers no unique utility over traditional methods
“It's not at all clear even now that there's anything that you can do with crypto that you can't do other ways. But, you know, obviously if something comes along that I, I'm happy to see it, but I don't see it now.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 2:41 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Nov 2, 2018 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Paul Krugman predicts only one or two cryptocurrencies will survive
“There will not be 1600 cryptocurrencies out there. There will be one or two.”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 24:06 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Nov 2, 2018 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Paul Krugman says Secret Service enforcement prevents high-quality currency counterfeiting
“Mostly the main obstacle to people producing high quality counterfeit, ah, dollar bills is the fact that the Treasury Department, the Secret Service will track you down”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 7:45 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Nov 2, 2018
Insight
Paul Krugman says anomalies in established theories are usually bad data
“When you hit a real anomaly in in what you think is a well-established point of view you should study it, and most of the time the answer, the explanation turns out to be bad data,”
Paul Krugman Nov 2, 2018 ▶ 38:30 Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Dixon: Paul Krugman makes basic mistakes and hasn't read the whitepaper
“You read, like, Paul Krugman or something, and they just, he makes very basic mistakes about Bitcoin, and clearly has not read the paper, and so it's hard to take those seriously”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:35 a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
Oct 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Andreessen: Krugman's failed internet prediction shows human transfer learning limits
“This is the Paul Gruckman talking about how the internet's gonna be no more significant than the fax machine. Facts, yeah. He's a brilliant economist, he has no idea how a computer works.”
Marc Andreessen Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 37:25 Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
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