Coming soon: Martin Wolf and Paul Krugman in conversation

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  I'm Martin Wolf, the Financial Times Chief Economics Commentator.

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  And I'm Paul Krugman, Professor at the City University of New York,

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  and I guess self-employed online pundit.

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  In six episodes to run throughout June and early July,

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  we'll be discussing the economic events reshaping our world.

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  And it's going to be interesting doing this together because, well,

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  we've known each other, according to my calculations, around 40 years.

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  So what topics would you like to discuss?

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  I mean, obviously,

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  it doesn't look like the trade war and all of that is going to be over anytime soon.

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  and we need to talk about that.

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  Are you prepared to think a little about the political economy of this?

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  How can it be that what is on the face of it,

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  the most successful economy in the world,

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  has decided to elect somebody who intends to blow it up?

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  I'm friends with some science fiction writers,

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  people who write sort of near-future dystopian stuff,

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  and they're very upset because they feel that they're being put out of a job because...

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  What's actually happening is making everything that they wrote look mild by comparison with the reality.

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  I mean, if it weren't for Donald Trump,

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