Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

On one side, availability of UI has expanded as states get past their bottlenecks, and the enhanced benefits in the CARES Act, which reached few people in April, are reaching many more now 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Brookings did an analysis suggesting that about half the wage losses in April were offset by unemployment benefits. But this offset has almost surely risen substantially from the April average 2/ https://t.co/ohHQM8orTU — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the arguments being made for rushing to reopen, never mind the epidemiology, is that workers are desperate. And without question the lockdown has inflicted huge economic pain. But one thing I hardly ever see mentioned is how much aid the unemployed are getting 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And anyone who says people are still dying is part of a conspiracy. Call it CubicAnon — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ThePlumLineGS: Trump's endgame will be to lie about coronavirus deaths to salvage his reelection hopes. So a group of Dem Senators led… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: . @PaulKrugman responded to readers commenting on his column "Covid-19 Reality Has a Liberal Bias." Read their exchanges he… — PolitiTweet.org

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, except without the "life" bit https://t.co/YXJT9ePJMl — PolitiTweet.org

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So it's a big world out there, and people are people, so we should learn from it 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But that's also a mark of American insularity: ignorance of foreign experience turns other countries into rhetorical points that have little to do with reality. 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing worth mentioning, though: in policy debates, people sometimes extol foreign role models that are more imaginary than real. Social Security privatizers talked a lot about Chile's system, which the Chileans themselves hated 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Safety-net programs aren't the only place to learn from others. When the 2008 crisis happened, economists who had paid attention to the Asian crisis of 1997-9 were much readier to take what was happening onboard than those who had assumed that America was different 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And countries don't do everything well or everything badly. France has amazingly successful health care, seriously screwed up retirement policy (which we do relatively well) 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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By the way, it's not as simple as "Europe is to our left, and that's better." For example, one lesson is that single-payer works, but so do other systems. There are several ways to achieve universal coverage 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a favorite theme of mine. I teach a course, "Economics of the welfare state," that rests heavily on international comparisons of health policy, retirement policy, etc. 1/ https://t.co/zhpbAFiDwQ — PolitiTweet.org

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The GOP doesn't do evidence-based policy, it does policy-based evidence https://t.co/CSFocFx5Hq — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Myrmecos: It was just nine days ago when the White House’s famous “cubic model” predicted Covid-19 deaths would fall to zero by today.… — PolitiTweet.org

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You got a problem with that? — PolitiTweet.org

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At the time the joke was that the Russians had told them to withdraw into the heart of the country and wait for snow — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ASlavitt: Require masks. It’s ok to have rules in a society. — PolitiTweet.org

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Broadcast, "How fast can the economy recover," should now be available. Register here https://t.co/svcuYWKriz — PolitiTweet.org

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Next talk, "How fast can the economy recover?" will go online tomorrow morning. With music! https://t.co/svcuYWKriz — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarkusEconomist: Webinar with @paulkrugman (@NYTimes @CUNY) on "The Audacity of Slope" on Friday 📅 May 15th, 12:30 p.m. (ET), (18:30… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TBPInvictus: 100% of epidemiologists surveyed say economists should stay in their lane. https://t.co/dSlDAGogj9 — PolitiTweet.org

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The thing is, while refusal to act responsibility by a minority is a problem for things like environmental issues, it can make the difference between control and explosive infection in a pandemic. So anti-social rage is a huge problem 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And of course the armed and crazy segment is also the most likely to rebel against social distancing, face masks, etc bc they seem anti-macho 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But it's a segment that the GOP defers to, and this being America, some of those people enraged by any hint that there are social responsibilities have guns 4/ https://t.co/38oXO1VI6M — PolitiTweet.org

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It's very much a minority, even fringe segment 3/ https://t.co/UnnQ16rrFs — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing I've noticed over the years is that there's a segment of the political right that flies into rage over facing any inconvenience to serve the public good — e.g., suggesting violence over a ban on phosphates in dishwasher detergent 2/ https://t.co/gqsunZZXE2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Excellent thread on the problems American political culture poses for dealing with a public health emergency 1/ https://t.co/LAZyAiE6EE — PolitiTweet.org

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Plus a second wave of infections from premature opening could set recovery back a long, long time. What we need is to stay the course and keep disaster relief in place. Unfortunately, little sign that Trump and allies will do that 5/ — PolitiTweet.org