Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

So government borrowing just draws on this pool of excess savings. Furthermore, in so doing it helps prevent an even steeper economic contraction 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But where does the borrowed money come from? Basically, right now we have trillions in private savings with no place to go, because private investment demand isn't sufficient to use them; who's going to invest in the face of a plague of unknown duration? 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Thread. Trump is perhaps uniquely unsuited to this crisis, but the intellectual and moral degeneration of the GOP is the larger issue — PolitiTweet.org

4/ I think part of the blame also falls on today's GOP. I can remember (decades ago) when the GOP was basically a s… https://t.co/8chR9b2eJn

Posted March 27, 2020 Hibernated