Paul Krugman

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But all of this is, of course irrelevant. As I suggested in an earlier tweet, Erich von Manstein was probably WWII's best general: Third Kharkov was an incredible victory against the odds. But he was a war criminal serving an evil cause. And he has no statues in in honor 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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My read of Virginia 1864 is that Grant in fact repeatedly outmaneuvered Lee, only to have his operations undermined by the sluggishness and timidity of his subordinates, who had served under too many bad commanders in the past 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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It was, however, preceded by daring river operations, as Union gunboats and transports ran past the batteries at Vicksburg and Grand Gulf. And it was followed by the 19th-century equivalent of blitzkrieg, as Grant outflanked the rebels, then penned them up against the river 2/ https://t.co/NZLtgciV1F — PolitiTweet.org

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Since we are, bizarrely and stupidly, talking about Robert E. Lee, worth noting that Tuesday is the anniversary of the Civil War's D-Day: Grant's crossing of the Mississippi south of Vicksburg. The landing achieved total surprise thanks to a helpful slave 1/ https://t.co/lYG2b17erD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @joshtpm: 3/ It’s truly Kafkaesque. We wake up one day in our American promised land and we’re not only being gunned down in synagogues.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Richard Lugar had one of his finest moments when Ferdinand Marcos tried to steal an election. Imagine what would happen in a comparable case today https://t.co/HgFteHZK6z https://t.co/Vv4OAPCfrh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jason_a_w: Today's killer said one of the reasons he hated Jews was "for their role in cultural Marxism". Every shameless hack who has… — PolitiTweet.org

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Honoring the memory of Robert E. Lee by chanting "Jews will not replace us." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ThePlumLineGS: This is so perfect. Trump's trade war is hurting many farmers, yet when Trump claimed repeal of the estate tax will hel… — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow. Even China has a "declining heartland" problem, in Manchuria https://t.co/Uv2DV3syoQ — PolitiTweet.org

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Trade wars are good, and easy to win https://t.co/bWvu8b2rAc — PolitiTweet.org

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Two morals: we really do have a political system in which regions bite the hand that feeds them; reversing regional decline is hard, because we already provide lots of de facto aid to declining regions, and it doesn't stop the decline 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Why have these transfers grown? As I said, I'm not sure I trust the data comparison. But the growth of Medicaid, on one side, and the rising incomes and hence tax payments of the 0.1% – who tend to live in Manhattan, not Louisville – probably explain it 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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I mean, Mitch McConnell's Kentucky gets a net federal inflow of 20% of state GDP, paid for by places like New York and New Jersey. KY is as much a ward of the national government as East Germany or Southern Italy 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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We say that we don't have "space-based" or regional policies in the US. But de facto the combination of national safety-net programs and unequal incomes means huge transfers to poorer states – many of which vote for people who claim to hate big government 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The 1981 numbers are from Tax Foundation: https://t.co/6iyvuJ9ZaO. I'm not sure how well the methodologies compare, so use some caution with the comparison. But focus first on those 2017 numbers 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The state "balance of payments" is the difference between federal money spent in a state and federal tax receipts from that state. The 2017 numbers are from a Rockefeller Institute study 2/ https://t.co/o1Gvy3ooRR — PolitiTweet.org

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Lately I've had the opportunity to merge my pundit role with my old interest in economic geography, and I've been finding some things that seem very startling. Here's a striking chart about the flow of federal funds to and from poor states 1/ https://t.co/iFHKuMemY3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Nice summary of all the ways economic geography is having a moment https://t.co/tcvMvPHB8a — PolitiTweet.org

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And it won't surprise you to learn that Moore still refuses to acknowledge that the Kansas plan was a failure 4/ https://t.co/LfNUDzxuB0 — PolitiTweet.org

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He also predicted disaster in CA, dismissing the accelerated growth that was already visible a couple of years in 3/ https://t.co/aZa0wS5OJF — PolitiTweet.org

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I've shown job growth for CA and KS starting in Jan 2011, when both Jerry Brown and Sam Brownback became governors of their respective states. Brownback pushed though big tax cuts, and Moore predicted a "near immediate" boom 2/ https://t.co/Ejy8SmmDf7 — PolitiTweet.org

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For those trying to illustrate the intellectual bankruptcy of modern conservatism, Stephen Moore really is the gift that keeps giving. I wrote last week about his monetary wrongness; now let's talk about state taxes. Here's a starting point: 1/ https://t.co/hUgx82FtEO — PolitiTweet.org

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The thing is, Spain – like much of Europe, but unlike the US – has "space based" policies that try to help lagging regions. They don't seem to help much 2/ https://t.co/Z67JspkIeb — PolitiTweet.org

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So Spain also has a problem of a declining heartland. 1/ https://t.co/d3J3azjhcK — PolitiTweet.org

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You know who really was a great general? Erich von Manstein. He was also a war criminal. And there are no statues of him in Germany. Meanwhile, next week is the anniversary of Grant's crossing the Mississippi south of Vicksburg, the beginning of victory against slavery — PolitiTweet.org

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Unexpectedly high GDP number, but it looks mostly like an inventory blip. These things have happened before -- for example, in 4th quarter 2009, which came in at 4.5% growth. And yes, I called it a blip at the time https://t.co/SRyqWtjqYx — PolitiTweet.org

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And by sustaining these cities, they also help the surrounding rural areas. The truth is that the heartland is a major beneficiary of immigration, even though most of its residents don't know that 5/ https://t.co/EsUtiZcZRh — PolitiTweet.org

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In 21st-century America, many such workers are immigrants, and those are also the people most likely to be mobile, since they don't have roots in existing US communities. Hence they move to cheap towns even if they're troubled 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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What brings immigrants to such cities? A while back Glaeser and Gyourko argued that durable housing mitigated urban decline: cities on the downslope have cheap housing, which makes them attractive to low-human-capital workers 3/ https://t.co/1DWNEelscO — PolitiTweet.org