Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Make it so! Lisa is a great scholar and an admirable person. And it's all the sweeter when you consider that she would take the seat Trump tried to give to the execrable Judy Shelton. — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Slope is very flat — a year or two of overshoot will not produce a lot of inflation. In other words, chill about the size of the relief plan 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Quick and dirty comparison of CBO "output gaps" with inflation. Suggests that economy can run maybe 1.5% above "full employment" with only 2% inflation, and ... 3/ https://t.co/Nkj9u4FXuz — PolitiTweet.org

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Also important to realize that the data suggest that "fuell employment" as conventionally estimated ... isn't 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Exactly right. And important to say given the controversy. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @StevenTDennis: Ron Johnson warning Neera Tanden against overheating the economy... Quoting Larry Summers. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TBPInvictus: Followers may recall one of the charts I created last year, documenting Trump's lies about Covid "progress" against a moun… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @arindube: Experts who think the relief package is too big probably need to make their case to the general public more effectively. Othe… — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden policy, explained https://t.co/Te6U47jM1u — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidfrum: Rand Paul goes unmasked to make it clear that for him, disregard for others is not merely a matter of ideology, but a lived… — PolitiTweet.org

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I can't be the first to think that Trump should replace his lawyer with a cat. It would make just as much sense, and be cute too https://t.co/uVxJktM2ei — PolitiTweet.org

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IT'S NOT A STIMULUS. What is it, and what will it do? I try laying out the (very fuzzy) math https://t.co/kBgmOms1R0 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MikaelThalen: A lawyer using Zoom had to let a judge know that he wasn’t a cat after inadvertently activating a face filter https://t.c… — PolitiTweet.org

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The conservative objection to welfare is that it makes the poor less miserable. We can't have that! — PolitiTweet.org

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And the IGM panel agrees: IT'S NOT STIMULUS https://t.co/w8BJkCX6bx https://t.co/qW2il77a71 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Small note about how hard it is to get pandemic economics across: I've spent many months screaming IT'S NOT STIMULUS. And the very sophisticated Bendheim Center describes its session with me and Larry as being about, yes, stimulus https://t.co/dXV1dPkgzN — PolitiTweet.org

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What I'm doing Friday https://t.co/dXV1dPkgzN — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Voters aren’t interested in process. Very few Americans know that the Trump tax cut was rammed through on a party-line vote using reconciliation and almost nobody cares. https://t.co/in4569V1TX — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden’s Covid-19 relief plan commands overwhelming public approval — far higher than approval for Obama’s 2009 stimulus. https://t.co/in4569V1TX — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats have finally stopped believing in the debt boogeyman and the confidence fairy https://t.co/in4569V1TX — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: "Biden and company appear to have learned that caution coming out of the gate doesn’t store up political capital to do more… — PolitiTweet.org

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She continued, "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" One minor virtue of child credit proposals is that they're flushing out people who claim they want to fight poverty but actually just want to make life harder for the poor. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @delong: DeLongTODAY: Nudging Ourselves Toward Full Employment... I confess that I do not understand worries that Biden's $1.9 trillion… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @henryfarrell: One way of interpreting this is that many political journalists know very little (and care relatively little) about polic… — PolitiTweet.org

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Another is that GOP attempts to brand anything Dems propose as socialism aren't working. The public wants vigorous action, and is effectively giving Biden a mandate to go big 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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This seems relevant in a couple of ways. One is that complaints that Biden isn't delivering on "unity" are strange: his policies command very widespread support, it's basically only Republican activists — who cannot be appeased — opposed to their substance 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Something I don't think is reflected in news coverage: Biden's aggressive response to Covid has overwhelming approval — much higher than Obama's stimulus a dozen years ago 1/ https://t.co/RXzXcGeXp3 — PolitiTweet.org

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As Republicans try to blame *Democrats* for Jan.6, I find myself recalling a passage from Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union address (given at a time when, unlike today, Republicans were against slavery) https://t.co/pbTd4ju06K — PolitiTweet.org

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Wait until they find out how Uruguay took over world trade (WTO humor, a rarefied specialty) — PolitiTweet.org

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So go big. The risks of undershooting are too severe to do anything else 4/ — PolitiTweet.org