2024-09-18
8 分钟Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
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Those have been the images associated with climate change.
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This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.
You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
I'm Paul Krugman.
I'm an opinion writer for the New York Times, also a professor at the City University of New York.
I won third place in the Optimist oratorical contest in junior high school and I also got a Nobel Prize.
Today, the Federal Reserve is more or less guaranteed to cut interest rates.
We don't know how big it'll be, quarter point, half point, but it's coming.
It's going to be a big deal.
The reason they're going to do it is first and foremost that we've won the war on inflation and we did it without a recession or a large rise in unemployment.
The important thing now is, is to not fumble the landing.
And so the question is going to be, will the Fed be pulling the plane's nose up fast enough so that we do get a smooth landing on the Runway?
What I think the Fed should do is big rate cuts.
The discussion has been between 25 and 50 basis points, where a basis point is a hundredth of a percentage point.
That's just the jargon people use.