Paul Krugman

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Once upon a time it was "how dare you suggest that THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES" is leading us to war on false pretenses 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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This gets at a broader thing I've been noticing since Bush: the demand that hacks and thugs be granted an unearned presumption of dignity because of the office they hold 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Also props for ending the tyranny of tacky acronyms — PolitiTweet.org

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With Biden proposing tax hikes at the top, note that we've had two significant hikes in 1% taxation in past few decades. Job growth did fine after each https://t.co/2UEYFjBlSA — PolitiTweet.org

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Does Rudy Giuliani ever think about how easy and pleasant his life could have been? He could have spent the last 20 years giving lucrative speeches about Leadership, consisting of a few nouns, a few verbs, and 9/11. — PolitiTweet.org

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It kind of feels as if the whole GOP is having a meltdown. I mean, to seize on this clearly implausible story just a day or so after being humiliated on the red meat stuff suggests desperation. — PolitiTweet.org

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Public investment can help with the second point, but not the first. If only there were lots of young working-age people outside the US eager to move here ... 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Second, reduced investment demand, which pushes interest rates down, which in turn makes it hard to fight recessions (10-year rate minus 3-year average core inflation) 3/ https://t.co/2Gpx7VDkQp — PolitiTweet.org

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But isn't less population pressure on the environment a good thing? Yes, in some ways. But given how we run our economy, two big problems. First, fewer workers to take care of seniors 2/ https://t.co/x4Otf0WB9q — PolitiTweet.org

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The Census confirms what we already basically knew: stalling population growth. Especially striking if you look at prime working years 1/ https://t.co/DaI3ohG0ow — PolitiTweet.org

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Orwell was wrong. Instead of a Two Minutes' Hate, we have the 24/7 Hate https://t.co/BH9MxXWb7p — PolitiTweet.org

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What strikes me about GOP credulousness on these things is the willingness to believe that Biden's people are idiots. Seriously: even if they were secret woke vegans, would they announce plans to eliminate red meat? Would they really hand out Harris's book? C'mon, man https://t.co/UixzYkiFbG — PolitiTweet.org

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Another completely false claim about the Biden administration that is all over the right-wing machine. I guess they can't come up with anything real to attack https://t.co/gPAofT4CCw — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @profmusgrave: Real Americans eat meat. And what meat could be more American than Americans? That's why my platform calls for ending the… — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course there's a Simpsons episode for the latest absurdity https://t.co/xCajMsnvEv — PolitiTweet.org

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So, in a way this episode marks a departure: for once, right-wingers are throwing *lack* of red meat to the base. But still peddling lies https://t.co/Aog5kEpYlI — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ddale8: This stuff is completely imaginary. Biden has not proposed any limit on Americans’ meat consumption. What happened: 1) The Dai… — PolitiTweet.org

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What followed was a tortured debate that illuminated nothing much, and eventually just faded away. Oh well. But Zach Carter is right: we value thinkers for their best work, not their detours, and Robinson made a huge contribution 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Somehow Robinson and others managed to convince themselves that the moral legitimacy of capitalism rested on the existence of a well-defined measure of "capital" that had a well-defined marginal product 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Nice appreciation of Joan Robinson, although no mention of her later role. Sad to say, as a student I mainly encountered her through the "Cambridge capital controversy," a huge intellectual muddle 1/ https://t.co/HRaH7DVrXN — PolitiTweet.org

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Woke up this morning thinking about Larry Kudlow's claim that on July 4 Biden will force you to "throw back a plant-based beer with your grilled Brussels sprouts." Aside from wondering what kind of beer he drinks, I did some research: https://t.co/jh1CKo3oga — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LRB: ‘The mantra on everyone’s lips is a blunt statement of Krugman’s position. Do not repeat the mistakes of the early Obama administr… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @gnrosenberg: What... what does Larry Kudlow think beer is made from exactly? https://t.co/sfz1ZLwRYU — PolitiTweet.org

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This is what right-wing politics is down to. It's all false claims about evil liberals, which the base is expected to believe because it's primed to believe in liberal villainy. They're not even trying to engage on actual issues 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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If you read what Kudlow actually said, he's cagey — doesn't say that Biden proposed this, only that some people say this is what would happen. But Fox viewers won't notice, which is the intention 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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So this seems to be the latest right-wing attempt to smear Bidenomics. There is, of course, nothing about eliminating meat in Biden's plans; so this is like the imaginary mobs that burned our cities to the ground 1/ https://t.co/tniLRFN7fT — PolitiTweet.org

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So when we see people with a strong personal stake in tax policy making confident pronouncements about the effects of policy, with conclusions that serve their self-interest, how much weight should we give their opinions? I think less than zero 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Seriously: success in playing the stock market doesn't grant any magical insights into the effects of taxes on, say, real GDP. And the economics of capital gains taxation are actually very hard, even by tax econ standards 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Beyond that, when investment-industry types say that raising this tax would be terrible for the economy, we should ask: How do they know? 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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One important point is how modest even the stock market impact has been. If this is catastrophic, why did it produce only a 1% stock decline, reversed the next day? 2/ https://t.co/Clo8o2Od3v — PolitiTweet.org