Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

But that isn't always the case after a severe recession. Pre-1990, recoveries tended to be rapid and V-shaped 3/ https://t.co/omGTXRFR8G — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Recovery from the financial crisis was slow and grudging, and many expect the same to be true this time 2/ https://t.co/NMhcAfcEeZ — PolitiTweet.org

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The next few months will be terrible, politically and economically, and a lot of people will be impoverished and die unnecessarily. But vaccination is coming — and when it does, I suspect we'll recover much faster than people expect 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Rhetorical question, right? Five-letter word beginning with "B" — PolitiTweet.org

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NYC has zip-code level data on positivity, which clearly demonstrates that politics>>population density. Neighborhoods like Jackson Heights, 60K/sq mile, far less dangerous than Trump country/aka Staten Island, with 8K/sq mi https://t.co/1USmB0thDE — PolitiTweet.org

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Not sure how to do a comparable calculation for the executive office of the President, but it's probably worse. Basically, Republicans in Washington are a coronavirus hotspot 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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For comparison, about 3% of the overall US population has tested positive. This is surely an understatement — but are we sure that we know about all the Covid-positive Senators? 2/ https://t.co/8XgVxyGsJL — PolitiTweet.org

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Fun fact: 6 Senators, all Republican, have tested positive for Covid-19 — that's 6 percent of the relevant population 1/ https://t.co/86yiY8cN81 — PolitiTweet.org

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South Dakota has roughly the same population, is also rural and remote — and is in the midst of a pandemic disaster. And it's all about politics 2/ https://t.co/TqGI5KoQdK — PolitiTweet.org

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This piece on Nova Scotia's success in controlling the coronavirus is both encouraging and enraging. True, Nova Scotia has a tiny population and is far away, but ... 1/ https://t.co/wAyOrOclUL — PolitiTweet.org

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Eat, drink and be merry, because tomorrow my policies may kill you https://t.co/mcGZJxvhZ2 — PolitiTweet.org

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via @NYTOpinion https://t.co/G1pvUnLx94 — PolitiTweet.org

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You can see me predicting a fast recovery once the pandemic subsides back in May https://t.co/47GXqDR04B — PolitiTweet.org

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And yes, Dems should run on it — it will be proof that R claims that you need to be harsh on the poor and destroy the environment were false 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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This won't mean that things are OK. Investment demand will still be weak unless we ramp up public investment. Climate change is still looming over everything. But Biden's second year in office may look far better than most people imagine 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Once the pandemic abates, which a vaccine will probably achieve, we will be well poised for a rapid, V-shaped recovery. There's a pretty good chance that Biden will preside over a "morning in America" economy 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Agreed. I've been arguing since the spring that the Covid slump is more like the 79-82 slump, brought on by high interest rates, than 2007-9, brought on (to oversimplify) by an overhang of household debt 1/ https://t.co/clqaU28Jy3 — PolitiTweet.org

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What's the answer? Our best bet is probably to treat climate action as an economic plus — a generator of investment and jobs — which is largely is at this point, while downplaying eat-your-spinach rationales. But it's going to be even harder than we realized 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Even people hospitalized with Covid-19 all too often remain in denial! 5/ https://t.co/PqioOnxo3N — PolitiTweet.org

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By contrast, much of the damage from Covid-19 comes from identified superspreader events, sickening and killing people in your own community just a few weeks later. And even so much of the population is in denial, refusing even to wear masks 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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For example, failing to properly cap a disused gas well contributes to the destructiveness of tropical storms a decade later and half the world away. Hard to get people to focus on that unless they believe in science 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Many people, myself included, have argued that climate is a peculiarly hard issue to deal with, because the consequences of bad behavior, while immense, are diffuse and delayed 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Gavyn Davies points out that the failure of many nations to deal effectively with the coronavirus bodes ill for our ability to prevent climate catastrophe — but he understates the case 1/ https://t.co/Hlnp0k0tsN — PolitiTweet.org

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I mean, the white evangelicals I sort of understand. If you believe that God demands white patriarchy, stuff follows — and they were always this way. But what's with privileged members of the elite going full MAGA? 3/ https://t.co/O4BOqP2Yul — PolitiTweet.org

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I used to go on Lou Dobbs's show in the early 2000s; he was conservative but not rabid, indeed seemed likable in a sort of old-fashioned, courtly way. Obviously something snapped. But why? To all outward appearances, life treated him well. Why the crazy? 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Not the most important issue, but one of the things that really disturbs me about America under Trump is the number of seemingly reasonable people who went completely feral 1/ https://t.co/7vn7S8eTLr — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: . @PaulKrugman responded to readers commenting on his column "A Republican Senate Would Be Bad for Business." Join the conv… — PolitiTweet.org

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So at this point all that stands between us and salvation are prejudice and special interests. Which, of course, means that we may well be doomed ... 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Progress in renewable energy means that we can wean ourselves from fossil fuels at low cost — and get side benefits in the process 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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In a better world this would be a huge development: there is no longer a significant tradeoff between economic growth and saving the planet 1/ https://t.co/o5EpTW1oK4 — PolitiTweet.org