Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @marceelias: I am shaken by this Texas case. Not because it will prevail (it won't) but because something is seriously wrong with our de… — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Karl Smith is right on the economics here — basically the same argument I'm making. But he seems to be under the misimpression that McConnell etc are acting in good faith https://t.co/05QBdW0pLv — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: Columnist @PaulKrugman responded to comments from readers about his column, "Trump Tries to Kill Covid Relief." You can see… — PolitiTweet.org

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Checks for those who don't need help, not help for those who do https://t.co/xNgjaEDWQG — PolitiTweet.org

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When choice is a bad thing — including quotes from me, not as an expert, but as someone baffled by health plan complexity https://t.co/2yr6FXLRcg — PolitiTweet.org

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via @NYTimes https://t.co/VvgUzBRcxb — PolitiTweet.org

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No questions are raised. The party has no commitment to democracy, and hasn't for years. Given the chance to turn America into Hungary, the GOP wouldn't hesitate for a second. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonfavs: McConnell is the reason we don’t have a deal McConnell has always been the reason we don’t have a deal McConnell continues t… — PolitiTweet.org

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Memories: I wrote about what was happening to the GOP back in 2003, in the introduction to my book The Great Unraveling. We were already heading to the place we're now in, but nobody wanted to see it https://t.co/TOrujb8oSH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dandrezner: The President of the United States literally wants to overturn certified election results and a significant fraction of the… — PolitiTweet.org

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The attacks on the election have been ludicrously stupid. And yet https://t.co/MILppCFCGH https://t.co/Lbco5VxBPF — PolitiTweet.org

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Look, I know Mulligan never saw a benefit to the needy that he didn't hate. But joining yourself to someone who never, ever gets his facts right ... 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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How clueless does an economist have to be to associate himself with *Stephen Moore*? 2/ https://t.co/hCnte39Eer — PolitiTweet.org

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OK, I missed this until Noah Smith pointed it out at his new Substack. But Casey Mulligan co-authored an article with Stephen Moore. It goes without saying that it's horribly wrong. But the main point is that Mulligan *co-authored with Stephen Moore* 1/ https://t.co/Qe8Q9kFAgg — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnJHarwood: Paul here notes a fundamental error much media coverage is making the issue Congress is now choking on nothing to do w/e… — PolitiTweet.org

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Somehow this makes me even angrier than McConnell's stonewalling. MM is at least evil in an understandable way. What we're seeing here, in the final economic act of the Trump admin, is a special mix of cruelty and cluelessness 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Another is that Mnuchin is just stupid, that after all this time he still doesn't understand the basics of pandemic economics. OK, I guess these aren't mutually exclusive 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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I actually don't know where this is coming from. One possibility is that Trump, still deluded in the belief that he can steal the election, wants another round of checks with his name on them 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Sending everyone a $600 check totally misses the point. Most people don't need it; meanwhile it's utterly inadequate for those who do need help. Why would anyone propose swapping out unemployment aid for this? 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And it's true now, as our negligence has created a wave of infections and deaths bigger than we suffered in the spring 4/ https://t.co/koTKq1DnbC — PolitiTweet.org

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This was true at the beginning: 3/ https://t.co/W7PXbFpH0T — PolitiTweet.org

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THIS IS NOT ABOUT STIMULUS. As some of us emphasized all along, when a pandemic is raging the goal shouldn't be to goose the economy but to provide disaster relief to those who can't work because their usual jobs spread the virus 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Many of the headlines on the new administration offer get it wrong by emphasizing the headline cost, which makes it sound serious. The key thing is the refusal to extend unemployment benefits, which is cruel and stupid 1/ https://t.co/G1ohJEJ2II — PolitiTweet.org

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Things that won't get you a visit by armed police: calling for violent action to overturn an election. Things that will: disseminating accurate data on a pandemic https://t.co/IIJA60mayd — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaking of bubbles: 48% of Trump supporters still expect him to be sworn in for a 2nd term. Inauguration Day could be pretty ugly https://t.co/F7WZeoiOhc — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnJHarwood: “Republican rejection of reality didn’t start in 2020, or w/Trump. “Climate change denial has been a badge of partisan i… — PolitiTweet.org

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Good post — but I'd argue that DSGE models (if you don't know what that means, consider yourself lucky) never had real policy influence. Policymakers who thought about theory at all were generally closet Keynesians https://t.co/ldka77ANdK — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a really good point. Trump's core support comes from rural areas where there are very few dissenters (and those that exist probably don't advertise it). Who's in a bubble, really? https://t.co/PB3eCiMwd8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course a party that never accepts inconvenient facts won't accept the fact that Trump lost https://t.co/ryBeoTcubL — PolitiTweet.org

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For my sins, I somehow ended up on a Rand Paul mailing list. This is what those trying to save American lives have to contend with https://t.co/AyKduAx1y6 — PolitiTweet.org