Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

We know a lot about the consequences of investing in people as well as physical infrastructure — and the positive social returns are huge https://t.co/EMM5sTI716 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

This is the best explanation I've seen of why caregiving belongs in a public investment plan. Like aid for childcare, it's not just a social benefit; it frees people to be more productive https://t.co/hHQPMfkdv8 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Giving new meaning to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. Sorry, the snarky academic in me sometimes bursts out https://t.co/EMM5sTI716 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @nytopinion: "We need a strategy to cure our longer-term problems of sluggish productivity growth and weak private demand," @PaulKrugman… — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Robert Mundell has died. A giant of the field. I wrote about him when he got his Nobel https://t.co/zGXdbbJxkc — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

So I'll make a prediction: as the economy booms, we'll see claims both that the boom is fake, that Biden is cooking the books, and that Trump deserves credit 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But silly me. The players involved here have a long history of denying plain facts that conflict with their agenda. Remember how Rs responded to the surge in Obamacare enrollments? 3/ https://t.co/Y0X9TdS0dV — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I mean, we were promised a huge surge in business investment; here's what actually happened 2/ https://t.co/0MMGaFOddI — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I've been a bit surprised to see some Republicans opposing Biden's plans by claiming that the Trump tax cut for corporations was a big success. I thought they'd gone into hiding given its dismal failure 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TBPInvictus: How on earth (pun intended) did I miss FRED's April Fools' Day offering? FRED adds interplanetary data | FRED Blog https:… — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Folks, it was just a business cycle recovery, and even that eclipsed by other recovery episodes. There was never a good reason to believe that excessive tax rates were a big problem, or tax cuts the answer 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Many people suggesting that Bidenomics represents the end of Reaganite ideology. I hope so. But worth remembering how little that ideology rested on. The whole claim that RR achieved something remarkable rested on the circled stretch here 1/ https://t.co/pxrBzCMkwO — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Not just in academic writing! Tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them. Or, as I sometimes put it, always write in sonata form. — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The idea that investment isn't real if it doesn't involve physical assets will come as news to the private sector, where intangible assets now account for a large share of private investment 2/ https://t.co/pB7Spq2qOa — PolitiTweet.org

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Among the many R excuses for opposing the Biden plan is the notion that unless it involves steel and concrete it isn't "real" infrastructure 1/ https://t.co/1Koe9nVs5h — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LarryGlickman: This excellent column by @paulkrugman evokes the "Committee on Research in Economic History" founded in 1940 and tasked… — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

So I was doing some research into Obama's investments in clean energy and discovered that there is a musician named Arra Tesla. https://t.co/lWVhne3BZY — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MichaelSLinden: I really feel like a lot of people never grappled with the fact that in 2017 Congress enacted a massive corporate tax c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: .@paulkrugman responded to readers who commented on his column, "Bidenomics Is as American as Apple Pie." You can read thei… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GroupofThirty: Join @paulkrugman, #G30 member and Distinguished Professor at @GC_CUNY on April 14 as he joins a @stone_lis panel discus… — PolitiTweet.org

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I'd like to think that the incipient Biden boom would break the myth that small government and low taxes on the rich are the secret of economic success. But since the evidence never supported that myth, I have my doubts https://t.co/MjURdfUcM7 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I'm worried, as we all should be, about rising infections as people get careless. But if vaccinations bring the pandemic under control, still the most likely case, we're going to be feeling pretty happy by New Year 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But it's also true that monetary and especially fiscal support for recovery has been much stronger than under the underpowered Obama stimulus 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I and others were predicting a V-shaped recovery this time because the pandemic shock, unlike the deleveraging shock of 2008, didn't leave a large overhang of impediments to recovery 3/ https://t.co/AOCM6y1xAt — PolitiTweet.org

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Still a long way to go, but full employment by early next year — and maybe some temporary overheating — now looking very plausible. Why so different from the sluggish recovery after 2008? 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Morning in America! 1/ https://t.co/PrwMbWj0o7 — PolitiTweet.org

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An even better metric is share of GDP, which makes it around $250 billion — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

One way to think about the Biden program is that it’s an attempt to bring back the Dwight stuff — that is, in fiscal terms it would represent a partial return to the Eisenhower era https://t.co/bBjSkI6LTx — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonfavs: I’m honestly quite grateful to the Republican Party for saving us all time so we can move right to reconciliation and stop pre… — PolitiTweet.org

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Not the first time. Qaddafi fell in part because he tried to roll the presses to hire mercenaries — but the presses were actually in the UK, which blocked the cash — PolitiTweet.org