Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Rs controlled Congress+WH for two years. Could easily have passed a major infrastructure plan. They weren't interested. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ https://t.co/t89qjb8aqW — PolitiTweet.org

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Corruption in the awarding of contracts under Trump? Inconceivable! 1/ https://t.co/J3Fs8fCYNY — PolitiTweet.org

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What's remarkable is that most of them don't find that courage even then https://t.co/TzH8TTYam3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Aauugghhh! Once again, Lucy snatches the football away just as Charlie Brown kicks it — PolitiTweet.org

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Will climate denialists succeed in destroying civilization? Their chances keep looking better https://t.co/zF9euhyeBL — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not a full economic determinist, but when I hear the word "culture" I reach for my spreadsheet 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Then when we started seeing social collapse in parts of white rural America, people like William Barr blamed "secularists" rather than the disappearance of economic opportunity 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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We used to see this mainly about blacks, whose social troubles were attributed to culture and, implicitly, racial inferiority rather than the disappearance of decent jobs in inner cities 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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This is really interesting, especially in the larger context of the tendency to blame culture, not economics, for the problems of lagging groups in our society 1/ https://t.co/V91gECFvhs — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Amazing how many people think opposing the policies of Israel's current government is anti-Semitic https://t.co/I0w2nV4lDo Next thing they'll be saying that opposing Donald Trump is unpatriotic. Oh, wait — PolitiTweet.org

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Two notes on some reactions I've been getting to today's column: 1. The title is a play on what people of my parent's generation always used to ask: "Is it good for the Jews?" — PolitiTweet.org

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Saw them at Rockwood Music Hall, a tiny venue, and have been following ever since. And now they've been nominated for a Grammy. Guess I wasn't the only one who liked them 2/ https://t.co/NqQWeIPx7A https://t.co/jdT9fyvDQN — PolitiTweet.org

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Totally off topic: some readers may know that I'm a 66-yr-old wannabe hipster who discovered indie music late in life. Sometimes I find new bands by checking out who's playing at NYC indie venues. Around 3 yrs ago I discovered Larkin Poe, a sister act 1/ https://t.co/9w9GIrk5mx — PolitiTweet.org

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Some of us remember our history https://t.co/I0w2nV4lDo — PolitiTweet.org

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So again, why are Dems doing this? The economics are basically nothing, and the politics are bad. Who's demanding this, and why should they care? 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Don't say that Trump will kill NAFTA if he doesn't get it. That would be a body blow to US business and crash the market — which is the reason Trump huffed and puffed and then basically negotiated nothing 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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So, can someone explain to me why Dems appear about to sign on to Trump's USMCA trade deal? It's basically no change from NAFTA as is, but Trump will claim it as a triumph. Why give him that? 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Again, I'll address policy in a day or two. But definitely a great and admirable man, who will be sorely missed 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Two anecdotes: a couple of years into the financial crisis, he joked over dinner that he was thinking, "Oh, to be 80 again!" And when I once told him that he personally demonstrated the truth of too big to fail, he took it in good humor 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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He was also — which is not the same thing — a very GOOD man, a pillar of integrity. And while gruff, he wasn't at all arrogant. I knew him a bit personally, mainly through the Group of 30; he didn't put on airs, and had a good sense of humor about the world and himself 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Paul Volcker, R.I.P. I didn't agree with all his policies or policy ideas, and will write about that when I got the chance. But he was undeniably a very great man 1/ https://t.co/eN89jyenjv — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ssamcham: Every lawyer who looks at the Warren disclosures understands that she made a small fraction of the money she could have made… — PolitiTweet.org

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Oy vey — PolitiTweet.org

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What if Christian conservatives never actually cared about morality, and it was always all about maintaining white male patriarchy? Seems to fit the facts a lot better than the idea that there's something mysterious about their support for Trump https://t.co/Uje5otyswP — PolitiTweet.org

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Somehow I got the wrong link. It's here https://t.co/XdSpwsz9tL — PolitiTweet.org

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You see, there are things that matter more than money. And if you're Jewish and have any sense of history, you know that if white nationalists get to rule, you-know-who is always next in line 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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They're also very Democratic: they voted for Clinton in 2016 by 71-23 3/ https://t.co/xe7zazhigZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Jews are in fact a relatively high-income group: 44 percent have incomes over 100K, compared with 19 percent for the population at large 2/ https://t.co/aW6uRwTNtf — PolitiTweet.org

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Aside from being disgustingly anti-Semitic, this is also empirically wrong. U.S. Jews are notably a group that does *not* vote its financial interests 1/ — PolitiTweet.org