Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Huh. I was recording some stuff and happened to look at the background bookshelves — and they're infuriatingly, accidentally, dignified. Tooze on WW2, Braudel on the Mediterranean, Perlstein on the rise of the right. Fortunately, the sci-fi is off-camera https://t.co/MPfYSGY5d2 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Yet ignoring the virus and just reopening classes as usual would kill thousands. We're entering a whole new phase of this crisis 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

If you're worried about things that might keep people from going back to work, ignore the unemployment benefits thing and look at the fact that millions of Americans won't have anyone to take care of their children. The human and economic costs will be huge 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Not reopening in-person schooling makes life difficult if not impossible for many of these workers. Yet school reopening is very quickly turning into a complete disaster — maybe worse and faster than the abortive economic reopening of the spring 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

If I'm reading the numbers correctly, out of 157 m Americans working last year, around 37 million were in families for which child care is a critical issue: 29 million workers from two-earner households with children, 8 million working single parents 3/ https://t.co/NFLxwveksC — PolitiTweet.org

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The key point is that America has come a long way from the Suburban Lifestyle Dream in which Daddy went to work while Mommy stayed home (which was never as true as advertised, but nothing like that now) 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Heartfelt column from Michelle about the personal toll on parents, even those with good, high-status jobs, of the emerging school catastrophe. It seems almost churlish to talk about the economic implications, but they're also there 1/ https://t.co/SQaGGx8Ak8 — PolitiTweet.org

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Believe it or not, I'm still getting mail from people accusing me of being a partisan elitist for not taking the concerns of Real Americans seriously. Because people who believe in a global liberal conspiracy of Satanist pedophiles deserve to be treated with respect. — PolitiTweet.org

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I filed this before the RNC began, when organizers were still claiming that their show would be upbeat and optimistic. If you actually believed that, I have a Trump U degree *and* a privately built section of wall to sell you https://t.co/EvxPi1SfXm — PolitiTweet.org

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So now he has a business venture seeking to raise large sums of money to be invested in ... something yet to be determined. To be fair, he's not the only one doing that. But if his investing is anything like his budgeting, buyer beware 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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To turn these into "deficit reduction" plans Ryan simply announced that he would raise revenue by closing unspecified loopholes, and reduce spending by eliminating unspecified programs. Just trust him! 3/ https://t.co/VC0OUkT1g8 — PolitiTweet.org

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The point is that Ryan's budgets were always obvious frauds. The concrete policy measures were huge tax cuts for the rich and savage but smaller benefit cuts for the poor, with the net effect being to *increase* the deficit 2/ https://t.co/r0JbCxY2kw — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Remember Paul Ryan? Neither do I. But from ~2010 to 2016 much of the news media treated him as the ultimate Very Serious Person, the great crusader against budget deficits. Now he's bringing his trademark — the magic asterisk — to the business world 1/ https://t.co/6RC0hJxe6O — PolitiTweet.org

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Crazy conspiracy theories are what you go for when you can't do your actual job https://t.co/teLfv0QaWT — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

If you don't know what I'm subtweeting here, lucky you. But I've long suspected that Republican finger-wagging over sexual impropriety was like the party's alleged concern about budget deficits: completely insincere, used only as a club against political opponents. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fair enough. But the "party of ideas" line is very, very old, and hasn't been true for a generation. There was almost nothing in Paul Ryan's "ideas" that Newt Gingrich wasn't saying in 1995 — PolitiTweet.org

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Except anyone who actually looked at it and knows anything about how policy works 2/ https://t.co/yv2D8CKklD — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The GCSP — the Golf Club Stimulus Plan — is a complete bust, which nobody could have predicted 1/ https://t.co/iIpO63aKwG — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Stocks are up, but life is getting rapidly worse for millions of Americans. And it's all about bad policy https://t.co/OHjVpJLQiD — PolitiTweet.org

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PS: when I was a letter carrier I was armed - with a small can of doggie mace. I even had to use it once — PolitiTweet.org

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I know it's silly, but I really want to know how the arrest of Bannon went down. Or maybe not: my image — letter carriers in ceramic armor rappelling down to the mega-yacht from blue helicopters — is surely better than the reality — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattGertz: Populist icon Steve Bannon was sailing on this mega yacht when he was arrested on charges related to a scheme to defraud don… — PolitiTweet.org

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And do note that the latest volume in Rick's epic history of the modern American right has just been published 3/ https://t.co/R03PtLdfLf — PolitiTweet.org

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The arrest of Steve Bannon, who “defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalizing on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars" fits the model perfectly 2/ https://t.co/yqTjrfAE8p — PolitiTweet.org

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Years ago Rick Perlstein wrote about "The strategic alliance of snake-oil vendors and conservative true believers ... that makes it hard for either them or us to discern where the ideological con ended and the money con began." 1/ https://t.co/TaEXih9IHy — PolitiTweet.org

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From TPM: beware of those left-wing butterfly thugs https://t.co/Hi609YrsHb — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Yes, yes, yes! If Biden ends up listening to deficit obsessives who have learned nothing in 15 years, we're doomed. — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Live image of postal inspectors arresting Steve Bannon https://t.co/NApTj8x38v — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm sure a zillion people have made this point, but given the evil Bannon has wrought, this is like getting Al Capone on tax evasion https://t.co/yqTjrfAE8p — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Not saying that this is the whole story, but anyone talking about stocks without mentioning bond yields is missing a large part of what's going on 6/ — PolitiTweet.org