Crime and Self-Promotion - Paul Krugman

Normally my posts here are essays/analyses on a single topic. Today I’m going to slack off and present a bit of a smorgasbord. First, a discussion of how we talk about crime. Then some links for free subscribers who want to read my inequality series. Finally some notes on the state of the Stack. Crime: Facts, feelings, and hearing The Trump administration has a clear view of the state of the nation 7 months into Trump’s presidency. The economy, it says, is wonderful, with surging growth and no inflation, while big cities are crime-ridden hellscapes where nobody dares to go out. The data, of course, don’t support any of this. Growth is slowing, possibly to “stall speed,” while inflation is accelerating. Urban crime, however, has been plunging, and in general our cities are safer than they’ve been since the 1960s, or maybe ever. The administration’s response has been to attack the data and the people who report it. Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the BLS rele

Normally my posts here are essays/analyses on a single topic. Today I’m going to slack off and present a bit of a smorgasbord. First, a discussion of how we talk about crime. Then some links for free subscribers who want to read my inequality series. Finally some notes on the state of the Stack. Crime: Facts, feelings, and hearing The Trump administration has a clear view of the state of the nation 7 months into Trump’s presidency. The economy, it says, is wonderful, with surging growth and no inflation, while big cities are crime-ridden hellscapes where nobody dares to go out. The data, of co