Paul Krugman

"It looks as if someone had very specific knowledge just a few minutes before."

"This is not something where maybe Trump or somebody around him said something to somebody the previous day."

"Think about, first of all, just the general proposition that people with access to national security information - sensitive national security information - would be exploiting that information for personal financial gain."

"In my view, a full-on global recession is more likely than not if the strait remains closed for, say, another three months, which seems all too possible."