Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

People believe (rightly) that he isn't even trying to save American lives, and his "scary antifa is coming for the suburbs" pitch doesn't seem to be working 8/ https://t.co/AXLHtmpKb9 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

This is, I think, bad news for Trump. The economy won't be bad enough to noticeably hurt him, unless that last job report is really bad; but it won't help him much either. And what else does he have? 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Now, real people don't read GDP reports. The public will on average come into the election with a sense that things have improved from the bottom but are still pretty bad — which is about right. 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

So we'll be going into the election with official data that, through nobody's fault, tells us very little about what's really going on 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The GDP report on Oct. 29 will, as I understand it, reflect average GDP for the 3rd quarter, which roughly means growth from May-August, which we know was fast as the economy partly snapped back from lockdown; but we also suspect that growth has slowed a lot since then 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The final pre-election employment report will be released early next month, but it will reflect data collected *last week* — ie, give almost no sense of where the job market is in the weeks before Election Day 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The problem is that we're living on Covid time, and things change so fast that normal data are vastly out of date compared with where we are 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Not going to try and parse the latest numbers; just read Ernie Tedeschi. One thing we should be aware of, however, is that economic numbers going into the election will be historically uninformative 1/ https://t.co/0WyBCgEgxA — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Can I join others in protesting this choice of units? Most of us have no sense of how big an area this really is, and I'm getting tired of dividing by 640 https://t.co/nNrR0kF0vy — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

State and local governments spend most of their money on health and education; health spending is going up, not down, in a pandemic. So the fiscal crisis will largely hit education — and the future https://t.co/OSgx71SJHP — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

It's the anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers — the collapse that plunged the world into crisis — and as far as I can see there's not a single mention on the Times homepage. That's an indicator of just how bad things are: past disasters don't compare — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans are acting like there's no tomorrow, or actually like there's no next year https://t.co/VUVUilrZeZ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @nytopinion: "If Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20, he’ll be the second Democratic president in a row to inherit a nation in crisis, but t… — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I thought the point of presidential visits to disaster areas was not to learn — no need to fly out for that — but to convey a sense that the president cares and understands. Not exactly what Trump did today. — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I used to think that climate denial was a special case because the effects were gradual and invisible, hence easy to deny. But here we have epidemiologists accused of sedition for reporting on a pandemic in progress. So maybe climate not special after all https://t.co/h7GVDwXfRS — PolitiTweet.org

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I often tell people that America is every bit as class-driven as the UK, if not more so, despite our facade of informality. Still, hard to imagine something like this here https://t.co/sGYvqhezp5 — PolitiTweet.org

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*America* didn't fail this test; Trump and politicians like him — the very people promising to make America great — failed the test thanks to their contempt for their fellow citizens 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Even Arizona turned things around when its Republican governor finally took the pandemic seriously 2/ https://t.co/GeRcWscFgV — PolitiTweet.org

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What's so awful about this is that when given decent leadership Americans actually have behaved pretty well. New York has gone from horror story to role model 1/ https://t.co/509x0bJQwr — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Mauro Guillen and I will be talking about the future at the virtual 92nd St. Y tomorrow night https://t.co/WT5qWQAz31 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

That said, I didn't drop all that much — running with a mask is perfectly feasible. And my reading is still fine. But I prefer to earn my guilt, not have it thrust upon me by measurement issues 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Apropos of nothing: the Fitbit cardio fitness tracker doesn't take your face mask into account. Yes, I know it's not accurate: I use Fitbit to guilt-trip myself into exercise, not for medical guidance. But still annoying 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

18th century France has its Physiocrats; 21st century America its Fizzleocrats https://t.co/FnGfzfBPmH — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I haven't seen much reporting on Israel's coronavirus disaster. But it shows how easily gains can dissipate if you get careless; and now they're entering a second lockdown https://t.co/KdkCkltmo8 — PolitiTweet.org

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And it could have been much worse. Imagine what would have happened if someone like Trump had been president. So I stand by my original point: the national response to 9/11 was better than one might have feared. 10/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Let me give you that bar graph again. The post-9/11 upsurge in hate crimes against Muslims was real and unforgivable, but the horrible truth is that it didn’t loom that large compared with what Blacks face year in and year out. 9/ https://t.co/Wrnt8xQnZJ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The key thing to understand is that prejudice and hate crimes are a constant part of the American scene — not an excuse, just an observation, but part of the background to interpreting history 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And for the record, I stuck my neck way out at the time pointing out that we were being lied into war. 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Oh, and the Iraq war wasn't about mass prejudice. It was an elite project that exploited 9/11 and fear of terrorism (even though the ostensible justification was WMD), but I don’t think you can cite it to justify claims that the American people as a whole reacted badly. 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Link: 5/ https://t.co/cWUfKJGewT https://t.co/9tLzBPisO2 — PolitiTweet.org