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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
I think I forgot to mention yesterday why I think France's biggest problem is hypochondria. My sense is that too many members of the French elite believe the trashing their economy routinely gets from Anglo-Saxon critics, and imagine that there's some truth to it 5/ — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Second, as far as I can tell almost nobody knows that the old days when America could at least boast of better job performance are over. Using the metric many economists now prefer, we have *lower* employment of prime-age adults than high-tax European nations 4/ https://t.co/rQe9rGhp1s — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Two statistical snapshots. First, I've been amazed recently at seemingly well-informed people who imagine that America is a high-tax nation, and were apparently unaware how low our taxes are compared with other advanced economies 3/ https://t.co/eiDDEzfnV9 — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
It dovetails with my tweetstorm yesterday on the myth of France as a socialist hellhole 2/ https://t.co/PC81lZehlK — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Oh, dear. I wake up to see that my colleague Bret Stephens is bashing France. The French do have problems. But thei… https://t.co/4TfSVD3Hkg
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
This is a very nice piece on life in "socialist" Finland, which isn't socialist and where life is pretty good 1/ https://t.co/In9a0B90Pk — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
https://t.co/iAzqXvEl7D via @NYTOpinion — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Oh, and the main reason their GDP per capita is lower than ours is that they take much more vacation. If all that sounds to you like a socialist hellhole, well, I guess you're entitled to your opinion. 5/ — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
And they live longer than we do — a gap that has grown a lot over time 4/ https://t.co/80Gl6rq3NP — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
The French are *more* likely than Americans to have jobs during their prime working years 3/ https://t.co/E9gCrac81l — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Yes, French GDP has grown more slowly than GDP here. Much of that is slower population growth. And you do need to ask, growth for whom. Most French live *better* than their US counterparts 2/ https://t.co/MfydIiO53u https://t.co/bZHydwLxM1 — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Oh, dear. I wake up to see that my colleague Bret Stephens is bashing France. The French do have problems. But their biggest economic disease is hypochondria 1/ https://t.co/0fw4AOIqUS — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Yes, shooting people is barbaric. The civilized thing is to use a bone saw https://t.co/R4uT3c31ux — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
The question is, what could give the town new "export" industries (selling to other parts of the US as well as the world)? What would induce businesses to move there? I'm at a loss 4/ — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Another point is that people while we have some people urging us to aid declining regions, in reality we already provide massive aid: Social Security, Medicare, and other transfer programs provide almost half Grundy's income 3/ — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
One point just mentioned in passing is that the crash in coal employment had nothing to do with a liberal "war on coal': it began under GOP presidents, and the industry had virtually vanished long before Obama began taking climate action 2/ https://t.co/4MymwsoZz2 — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
This is a really excellent description of a coal town in terminal decline, which gets at several of the issues behind growing regional disparity 1/ https://t.co/tK8AcppZQU — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
RT @nytopinion: Almost exactly one year has passed since Donald Trump declared, "I am a Tariff Man." Uncharacteristically, @PaulKrugman not… — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
This is really bad on two levels. First, Democrats have been far less deficit-prone than Republicans. Second, debt worries are vastly exaggerated. Is Buttigieg just Howard Schultz in disguise? — PolitiTweet.org
Liz Goodwin @lizcgoodwin
“My party’s not known for worrying about the deficit or the debt too much but it’s time for us to start getting int… https://t.co/Pa75isDDWh
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
OK, this is extremely weird. I received an email saying that a payment has been received into my blockchain wallet. But I don't have a blockchain wallet. Presumably there's some kind of fraud going on, but what? — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
RT @joshtpm: I couldn't find any Trump blankets on the campaign website but they did have Trump snowflake wrapping paper (really) which mig… — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
RT @kairyssdal: Wall Street is an idiot, part 3, 495. https://t.co/f3GgXGuFWa — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
Investors = Charlie Brown Stable trade policy = football Trump = Lucy https://t.co/G3D3J5sCqb — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
RT @nytopinion: Red and blue voters don’t just live differently. They also die differently, says @PaulKrugman. https://t.co/J9s9OiOgIj — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
@ChadBown Why trade policy as opposed to other things? Well, he's trying to do the same elsewhere too. But US trade law happens to give the president extraordinary discretionary power. Given time, he'll turn America crony capitalist more broadly. But trade is where it starts. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
@ChadBown First of all, Trump doesn't believe in rules that constrain him, on trade policy or anything else. Beyond that, whim-based trade policy serves a valuable political purpose: it lets him reward friends, both via protection and via tariff exemptions 3/ — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
@ChadBown At some point investors will have to realize that Trump is never going to return to business as usual — a rules-based trade policy with fairly predictable rules of the game. The arbitrariness and unpredictability of his moves are a feature, not a bug 2/ — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
As always, a very useful thread from @ChadBown. I'd like to add some commentary in a different direction. I keep being struck by the willingness of markets to believe that Trump is finished waging trade war, then being blindsided by his next move 1/ — PolitiTweet.org
Chad P. Bown @ChadBown
1/ ECONOMICS and HISTORY Trump has decided to convert his import quotas on Brazil and Argentina to 25% tariffs o… https://t.co/od7B0VB2OE
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
RT @larry_levitt: Any day now an appeals court is going to rule on a lawsuit backed by the Trump administration to invalidate the Affordabl… — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
What's sustaining the economy is consumer and government spending. That's OK, but it strongly indicates that whatever is going right has little to do with Trump's policies 3/ — PolitiTweet.org
Paul Krugman @paulkrugman
He gave corporations a massive tax cut that was supposed to produce surging investment — but business investment is down. He launched a trade war to make manufacturing great again, but industry is shrinking 2/ — PolitiTweet.org
