Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @AEAjournals: Congratulations to Emi Nakamura of @berkeleyecon, winner of the 2019 John Bates Clark Medal! https://t.co/GzkoiUtocp https… — PolitiTweet.org

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Gah -- the AEA announcement doesn't pop up. It's Emi Nakamura, who has done wonderful empirical work on prices, fiscal multipliers, and more — PolitiTweet.org

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One of my favorite young macroeconomists receives the Clark Medal, which is harder to get than a Nobel. Yay! https://t.co/mMG9TupPYR — PolitiTweet.org

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And, right on cue https://t.co/j5O9mkRyKt — PolitiTweet.org

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This is still the best analysis I've seen of how the media are handling the Democratic primary https://t.co/DazLbxQEtr — PolitiTweet.org

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None of the GOP's economic posturing since 2008 has been in good faith. None 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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What we've learned from the Stephen Moore affair – or actually had confirmed, bc it was something we suspected all along – is that monetary hawkers was also phony. High interest rates for Obama, even at 9% unemployment; low rates for Trump 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But of course Mulvaney never was a real deficit hawk. None of the Republicans shouting about debt were. They only pretended to care about debt as a way to hobble Obama and slash social spending – and this was obvious at the time 3/ https://t.co/OaM6AMf8Sh — PolitiTweet.org

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It really is a total flip-flop. 2/ https://t.co/bMWWwlg1Y8 — PolitiTweet.org

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I see that people are marveling about Mick Mulvaney, who constantly used apocalyptic rhetoric about deficits under Obama, now says that debt doesn't matter 1/ https://t.co/a3cG894iwb — PolitiTweet.org

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They’re doing a reverse Corleone, making an offer he can’t accept — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NateSilver538: Biden 38 Warren 12 Bernie 11 Butti 10 Harris 8 Beto 5 https://t.co/4TYN4Kjnmn — PolitiTweet.org

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People like Moore, on the other hand, have been wrong about everything for 15 years – and have never admitted error or learned from their mistakes. 2/ https://t.co/AkBdXCI0wR — PolitiTweet.org

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With his Fed prospects in trouble, Stephen Moore is trying to claim that he's been more accurate than liberal economists. So maybe I should remind people that yes, I made a bad call on election night - and retracted it three days later 1/ https://t.co/y5rCRy7Ene — PolitiTweet.org

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And can I say that this naivety probably has something to do with being an old white guy (says a fairly old white guy). Someone like Warren isn't just a font of policy ideas; she also knows very well what she would be up against 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Either man could turn out to be a very good president – and God knows it wouldn't take much to improve on where we are. But neither seems remotely prepared for the bitter political trench warfare that surely awaits. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Everything we've seen for decades says that these are fantasies. Any Democrat will face what Obama faced: scorched-earth opposition. And never mind Republicans – even many Dem voters will balk at a plan that takes away private insurance 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden imagines that he could reach out to good people across the aisle and achieve bipartisanship. Sanders imagines that he can persuade large numbers of GOP voters to embrace much bigger govt, including single-payer health care 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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A thought about Biden and Sanders: Different as they are, they both (in my view) have fantasies about the political realities that would face a Dem president, even if the party regains the Senate 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And of course the 2008 financial crisis should have been an object lesson. Yet people still invoke the (much less severe) horrors of the 70s – basically, I think, because they can be squeezed into a right-wing narrative 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And the role the mythical 70s still plays in economic debate is remarkable. In reality, the 80s offered a huge refutation of a lot of conservative doctrine – but nobody wanted to hear it 3/ https://t.co/3Wcd9yzkKe — PolitiTweet.org

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Also, it's not quite right to say that the GOP's mindset is stuck in 1979. It's actually stuck in the myth of what happened in the 1970s, whose history has been rewritten to make it seem much worse than it really was 2/ https://t.co/A79RiFFK06 — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree with a lot in Ross Douthat's column, but I think he misses a few points. Trump doesn't choose hacks merely because of laziness; anyone serious would be a threat, because he might take a stand on principle 1/ https://t.co/yUzKbHkXEW — PolitiTweet.org

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I raised the issue in my 1998 paper on Japan's liquidity trap, https://t.co/BA7iXP0jrt See pp. 168-170, where I show that the standard methods claimed that the US had restored full employment by 1935. — PolitiTweet.org

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NYC's Select Bus Service, where you pay at a kiosk before boarding the bus, has been hugely successful where instituted. I've pretty much stopped taking taxis to the East Side; SBS does the job beautifully 2/ https://t.co/SHPvx2ZdyY — PolitiTweet.org

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London's bus system is a great example of smart government intervention, says @sjwrenlewis. In general, buses are underrated as a transit system. 1/ https://t.co/Eoqqlny0WA — PolitiTweet.org

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Interesting: my copy editor told me I needed to explain "wights," and that it would confuse people if I said that conservatives have the wight stuff. Not everyone watches Game of Thrones. https://t.co/mTb5jRsILC — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BCAppelbaum: Man who lived through the 1970s vows never to walk the streets of New York at night. It's just not safe. https://t.co/m4X5… — PolitiTweet.org

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You know, if Trump hadn't selected Stephen Moore for the Fed, none of this would have come out. So Trump may have done the nation a small, unintentional favor https://t.co/ufWDd1FAkm — PolitiTweet.org

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Now that's how to make an argument — PolitiTweet.org