Paul Krugman On The Nation’s 34 Trillion Dollar Debt

The national debt has just surpassed $34 trillion for the first time. On Today's Show: Paul Krugman , Nobel laureate in economics, New York Times columnist, distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and the author of (now in paperback) Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (W. W. Norton & Company, 2020), explains how that happened and where inflation may be headed in 2024.