Take context from the input text and decide on the accurate relationship between 'Paul Krugman' and 'The New York Times' from the options provided.
Options: director/manager, employer, developer, platform

When I recently debated Paul Krugman of The New York Times and I showed him these statistics, he argued that it was a good thing the government borrowed so much when the private sector was deleveraging or else the economy would have collapsed again.
employer