Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @nytopinion: So, @PaulKrugman says, all the “fake news” was true ... https://t.co/O3ofYMDoWV — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Soybeans, like other commodities, doubled in price from 2007-8; inflation then fell sharply 3/ https://t.co/TIygvQbsf5 — PolitiTweet.org

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The financial crisis and aftermath were associated with a big runup in gold prices, bc interest rates on alternative assets fell so low. The inflation rate ... fell 2/ https://t.co/Zgcbji48OG — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea that gold prices predict inflation is definitely a zombie – it should have been killed by evidence, but just keeps shambling along 1/ https://t.co/BlUXFmGjYL — PolitiTweet.org

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When Moore says that capitalism is more important than democracy, he's capturing the essence of why the GOP establishment is all in for Trump https://t.co/sCGEFyiQ3a — PolitiTweet.org

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Liberal billionaires tend to air their views in public, and get a lot of attention. But if you follow the money, it turns out that most billionaires quietly pursue a deeply unequalizing agenda 2/ https://t.co/iVOjlLBiiL — PolitiTweet.org

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Worth pointing out that the billionaires questioning the rapaciousness of 21st-century capitalism are very unrepresentative of their class, while people who compared a modest tax increase with Hitler are much more the norm 1/ https://t.co/ivY6Q23v86 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MattGrossmann: ‘Medicare for All’ is dropping in popularity as Republicans unite against it, but all buy-in options remain extremely po… — PolitiTweet.org

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If you were wondering whether a little light treason and obstruction of justice would bother the GOP's money men, have no fear https://t.co/SdiWJUdte6 — PolitiTweet.org

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More fun with regional divergence: well-known fact, but I wanted to see the data for myself. States with high educational attainment in 1990 also saw bigger rise in attainment through 2017 https://t.co/OdPpyBeaJI — PolitiTweet.org

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And the crisis didn't just impose hardship; it discredited the European elite and the European idea. That's the common theme linking the crisis to countries not on the euro, hence Brexit and the authoritarian turn in Poland 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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You should think of this as another example of fallout from the eurozone crisis, which hit Spain hard; it has slowly clawed its way back through "internal devaluation" (basically wage cuts) but it has been a terrible period 2/ https://t.co/0YNvLQJhfw — PolitiTweet.org

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Will Spain join the anti-democratic wave? It's at least possible, although the big motivator is internal regional dissension rather than immigrants 1/ https://t.co/y4KuPR8ZZI — PolitiTweet.org

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Sky-high inequality, literally. Bonus observation: people don't actually live in many of these apts, "which have become second homes for Chinese billionaires, European tycoons and out-of-state hedge fund investors." https://t.co/gmCOWv3BXF — PolitiTweet.org

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My father's co-workers used to wish him "happy Yom Kippur" — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ezraklein: It's a sign of the rot in our political system that all conversation about holding the president accountable takes the form… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RadioFreeTom: The Russians attacked the election. The Trump campaign, right up to the top, thought that was awesome. They greeted it wi… — PolitiTweet.org

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Very good and smart from one of our greatest economists. (I don't think laypeople fully appreciate Joe's greatness as a theorist) "Progressive capitalism" is a good phrase, in part because it does involve reviving a lot of the original progressive agenda https://t.co/vohM1VI1y6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Two interesting questions: What changed? (Knowledge economy? Decline of need for farmers? Urban revival?) And what if anything can/should we do about it? I guess I'm supposed to have answers by next fall 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Since then, the process has if anything gone in the opposite direction. 5/ https://t.co/30V5kkoRfN — PolitiTweet.org

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And we actually do seem to see a qualitative change in US regional dynamics circa 1979. Until then, poor states had systematically tended to converge on rich states. The picture was really striking 4/ https://t.co/7S8at6sNGe — PolitiTweet.org

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What this implies, in turn, is that quantitative change in these forces can produce qualitative change in the economy's dynamics. If the relative strength of the centripetal forces crosses a critical level, already leading areas start snowballing 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Specifics of the model aside, what I argued back then was that the geography of the economy reflects a tug-of-war between "centripetal" forces that pull things together, and "centrifugal" forces that pull them apart. 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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I've been asked to give a keynote at an upcoming Boston Fed conference on geographic disparities, and has a sudden urge to look at some data. In case you don't know, this (from 1991) is my most-cited paper 1/ https://t.co/LFN4oHqwPr — PolitiTweet.org

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When people ask me what ails the French economy, I always answer hypochondria. Too many people in France believe the constant propaganda about how their welfare state is unsustainable. In fact, France was doing fine until the austerity era came along 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Macron, of whom so much was hoped, has turned out to be the Howard Schultz of France – obsessed with debt and the need for austerity, plus a belief that taxing the rich is inconceivable, long after the economic evidence has refuted all of this 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Billionaires rushed to offer funds to rebuild Notre Dame. But in the context of Macron's policies – tax cuts for businesses, austerity for the masses – there has been an understandable backlash 1/ https://t.co/0N36AeF5GB — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @drvox: I would love the left's wonks to think less about clever + efficient policy and think more about big + dumb + durable policy. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ddale8: It has now been two hours and eleven minutes since the president started but did not finish this sentence. He has since gone to… — PolitiTweet.org

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I think @NateSilver538 gets this exactly right https://t.co/pG6gyfJ53b https://t.co/vMrgVgMBOu — PolitiTweet.org