Paul Krugman

@paulkrugman ↗

Deleted No

Hibernated Yes

Last Checked July 3, 2020

Created

Fri Apr 19 12:54:55 +0000 2019

Likes

122

Retweets

Source

Twitter Web Client

View Raw Data

JSON Data

View on Twitter

Likely Available

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The report concludes that the USMCA produces a small net gain for the US; but that gain is entirely due to the assumption that the agreement reduces uncertainty. Without that, it's a net negative. 2/ https://t.co/wTz4bXwGlq — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 19, 2019 Hibernated

Preceded By

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Meanwhile, a report very few people have read: the official assessment of Nafat 2.0, I mean the Village People agreement, I mean the USMCA, is very peculiar 1/ https://t.co/gKTbrtQRFG — PolitiTweet.org

1/ BIG QUESTION of ITC USMCA Report: How does the ITC get a 0.35% INCREASE in US GDP??? ANSWER: Most of the ec… https://t.co/mnpZcmH3Gf

Posted April 19, 2019 Hibernated

Followed By

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

So does the USMCA actually reduce uncertainty? That's far from clear. As @ChadBown says, it introduces a big new source of uncertainty in the form of sunset clauses -- unlike NAFTA, stuff needs to be renewed – which isn't taken into account in report 3/ https://t.co/iuVZ98hxQQ — PolitiTweet.org

Of course the BIG trade policy uncertainty that Trump’s USMCA INTRODUCES — that was NOT in the NAFTA — is the ‘Suns… https://t.co/JqkFvGV9LH

Posted April 19, 2019 Hibernated