Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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?
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning Economist and professor at City University of New York’s Graduate Center, joins Mary Harris on What Next to discuss what it really means for us now that the stock market has minted the world's first trillionaire and what history says about how this new Gilded Age ends.
Watch the entire conversation now on YouTube: youtu.be/b30scw0dQYA?si=R2BtZTsCLPgKJ-4h.
#podcast #economy #elonmusk #stockmarket #wealthgap
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?
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning Economist and professor at City University of New York’s Graduate Center, joins Mary Harris on What Next to discuss what it really means for us now that the stock market has minted the world's first trillionaire and what history says about how this new Gilded Age ends.
Watch the entire conversation now on YouTube: youtu.be/b30scw0dQYA?si=R2BtZTsCLPgKJ-4h.
#podcast #economy #elonmusk #stockmarket #wealthgap
