Can Trump turn the economy around before the midterms?
March 12, 2026
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For Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman, the political calendar makes the challenge even tougher. “The ability, even if they were to make radical changes in policies to significantly improve people's lives in time for the midterms is really negligible,” he says. And most voters aren’t following the details anyway. As Krugman puts it, “Most people are not paying attention… people have lives to live. They're not all nerds like us.”
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