Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

It turns out that the Trump economics team did some awesomely stupid analysis of epidemiology, a subject of which they know nothing, to produce numbers Trump liked 2/ https://t.co/2aFGbY9dQW — PolitiTweet.org

Wow. They really did publish a cubic fit with deaths heading to zero. Notice the visual trick here of trying overl… https://t.co/Dgq7n90yUC

Posted May 6, 2020 Hibernated

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The other day I wrote about the problem of a Trump team incapable of admitting or learning from mistakes. I didn't realize either how bad it was or how spectacular an example we'd soon see of this character flaw 1/ https://t.co/6MbhNTZUnS — PolitiTweet.org

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Their response when this was pointed out was (a) to insist that the dotted line extending their fitted curve into the future wasn't a projection, even though it looked like a projection to everyone who saw it and (b) to slime the critics 3/ https://t.co/kIYeyQ3uEN — PolitiTweet.org

Today was the low point, with past CEA Chair Furman (and economist turned political hack Krugman) not understanding… https://t.co/YZQS6hzoi0

Posted May 6, 2020 Hibernated