Paul Krugman Has a Theory On Oligarchs in the U.S.

If you love What Next, join Slate Plus at http://www.slate.com/youtubeplus?utm_... to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. The Gilded Age has nothing on the present when it comes to a huge—and growing—portion of wealth being controlled by a smaller and smaller group of men—and they’re doing their best to keep it that way. Must everything that goes up come down? Guest: Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at City University of New York’s Graduate Center. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Rob Gunther, Evan Campbell, Madeline Thames-Ducharme and Patrick Fort. Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD. Social: @maryharris on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/maryharris.b... Note: Captions are auto-generated by YouTube. Learn more: https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next Follow Slate on Social: Slate on Twitter -   / slate   Slate Podcasts on Twitter -   / slatepodcasts   Slate on Facebook:   / slate   Slate on Instagram:   / slate