When Hasan Minhaj asked Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman whether voters should believe politicians who promise to “bring prices down,” Krugman was blunt. “Any politician who promises to bring prices way down is either ignorant or lying, or both,” he said on Minhaj’s podcast (1). Must Read It’s a blunt warning aimed squarely at the kind of sweeping affordability pledge Donald Trump has made central to his political brand. What Krugman is really saying about prices In the Minhaj interview, Kru ...