Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

It's also true that supporting Israel doesn't mean supporting Netanyahu and his policies — no more than being an American patriot means supporting Donald Trump (although he doesn't get either distinction) 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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It seems to me that much of the reporting on Trump's Jewish frustration misses a couple of key points. It's not just the fact that American Jews overwhelmingly think of themselves as Americans, without dual allegiance to Israel 1/ https://t.co/sdUnIU7xYm — PolitiTweet.org

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Disagree. Republicans never cared about the deficit; it was always about hamstringing Obama. Some of us tried to tell you in real time, and have been totally vindicated https://t.co/k6cZJmeO1S https://t.co/HIvkTaDL3s — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes — PolitiTweet.org

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Non-policy: I've seen the joy e-bikes bring. I do moderately strenuous bike trips to clear my head every summer, and so far I can still do it without aid. But I'm 66, I see others using e-bikes, and can easily imagine doing it when the time comes https://t.co/6i5dTKd6Zw — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonathanchait: Trump compares self to Jesus, can't understand why the Jews don't worship him https://t.co/OGBdvLRDgE — PolitiTweet.org

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Everyone makes a wrong prediction sometimes. But what stands out here are: - absolutely consistent wrongness - no acknowledgement of error or attempt to learn from it - not a hint that Republicans are wondering if they're listening to the wrong people 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And, of course: - predicting 5% growth and a huge business investment boom from the 2017 tax cut 6/ https://t.co/L6q9XcnseT — PolitiTweet.org

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- predicting runaway inflation and interest rates from Bernanke/Obama policies - predicting a miracle from Brownback policies in Kansas - predicting disaster from Jerry Brown policies in CA 5/ https://t.co/84mBzQIlg4 — PolitiTweet.org

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So: - predicting doom from Bill Clinton's tax hike - when the economy boomed instead, giving credit to Reagan - proclaiming a "Bush boom" - ridiculing those warning about housing as "bubbleheads" - denying any possibility of recession in 2008 4/ https://t.co/Cwb1AgHRz4 — PolitiTweet.org

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It's not because the Three Stooges of supply-side have a track record of being right. On the contrary, they have an almost eerie record of being wrong about everything. A few highlights follow 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The key members of this group are Art Laffer and Steve Moore, who along with Larry Kudlow have been the GOP's go-to economic guys for decades; the party clearly prefers them to mainstream conservative economists, even though there are plenty of them 2/ https://t.co/FyBvNl0ZZt — PolitiTweet.org

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The Trump economic team is getting a lot of well-deserved ridicule over its current panic. But the whole GOP has been in deep voodoo for a long time. As witness Mike Pompeo's meeting with the "Committee to Unleash Prosperity" 1/ https://t.co/xgyIRqyMD4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Fact check: false. There are millions of Jews, and somewhere among them must be people stupid enough to believe almost anything — PolitiTweet.org

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In my newsletter — to which you should subscribe! — I asked, in the context of Trump economic policy, whether headless chickens really do run around. A reader informs me that they do. I wish I hadn't learned that. https://t.co/ro3bZAzmLJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Really really nerdy slight correction: most countries use the two-quarter definition, but in the US a recession is whatever the NBER business cycle dating committee calls a recession; it's a data-based judgment call, not a rigid rule. But it's never just two months — PolitiTweet.org

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And here's the prosperity they unleashed 2/ https://t.co/EcVnXxIdcI — PolitiTweet.org

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Mike Pompeo meeting with the "committee to unleash prosperity," founded by the men who advised Sam Brownback, the Kansas tax-slasher, who took office at the same time as CA's tax-hiking Jerry Brown 1/ https://t.co/JwnEePhOXK — PolitiTweet.org

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Truckers are a lot like farmers: they went all in for Trump, whose policies are ruining their lives https://t.co/evtYxnQ4B9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @scottlincicome: "Hey, don't do X. Every legit expert says X has bad direct effects & potentially really-bad indirect effects" "Shut up,… — PolitiTweet.org

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Helpful report. Again, worth noting that Fed policy is looser and interest rates much lower than the administration assumed in its upbeat forecasts https://t.co/8crDqCiwtc — PolitiTweet.org

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Isn't The Onion supposed to do satire, not straight reporting? https://t.co/4Pq46OpdAI — PolitiTweet.org

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On the other hand, I did say Trump would eventually blame the recession on Ilhan Omar, didn't I? Happening even faster than I expected 8/ https://t.co/yB75muJK4X — PolitiTweet.org

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Republican economic sabotage cost the U.S. millions of person-years of employment and hundreds of billions, at least, in wasted economic potential. To complain now about possible bad thoughts on the part of Dems is ludicrous 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump officials are also floating the idea of a payroll tax cut to provide demand-side stimulus — exactly what Obama tried to do, but found himself faced with scorched-earth opposition 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The real tell is that the emergency measures the Trump team is demanding now are exactly the things the GOP denounced under Obama. Trump wants radical monetary easing, which people like Paul Ryan said would debase the dollar 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And here's the thing: while Democrats aren't doing that, Republicans did do it; they engaged in systematic economic sabotage during the Obama years 4/ https://t.co/D2XeLlLn3R — PolitiTweet.org

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Let's be clear: this is stupid — because it *doesn't matter*. There are always people who want bad things to happen on the other side's watch. So what? The question is whether you act on it, and deliberately make things worse. 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Since "voodoo economics" is taken, I suggest we call this "hoodoo economics". The thing is, while I haven't seen anyone besides Trump assert that the economy is being ruined by negative thinking, I've been seeing a lot of warnings that liberals shouldn't wish for recession 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing that really struck me about Trump's economic conspiracy theorizing was his assertion that "the Democrats are trying to 'will' the Economy to be bad for purposes of the 2020 Election." So opposition politicians can hurt the economy just by thinking bad thoughts? 1/ — PolitiTweet.org