Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Maybe there's something in the political science literature that explains it? My casual thought is that it's a kind… https://t.co/kEcNG3RAc4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Yet this is a real thing, not to be wished away. And I don't think it's just sexism -- in general, politicians who… https://t.co/3MHWEOKBwD — PolitiTweet.org

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The reason this is puzzling is that she really isn't. She does try to explain issues, but there isn't any condescen… https://t.co/J8dRkTiMzz — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a political puzzle that has worried me for a while, and is highlighted by some of the responses to today's… https://t.co/PiI0HNzfsw — PolitiTweet.org

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!!!! https://t.co/RMWRArqBzp — PolitiTweet.org

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So it's misreporting to imply that it's just about downplaying the catastrophic risk aspect; the chairman of the AE… https://t.co/8SgBZgLWpi — PolitiTweet.org

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Olivier then asks whether realistic complications reverse that result, and finds it unclear -- more debt may well a… https://t.co/JVnFjSitbP — PolitiTweet.org

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But if you read the actual paper, it doesn't say anything like "debt is bad but not catastrophic". It notes that in… https://t.co/gxg0REZQiY — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's how the authors put it: 2/ https://t.co/iXgusDndbS — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a mostly good summary of interesting papers presented at the ASSA meetings -- but tellingly misrepresents w… https://t.co/frGoJ6PQXx — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not going to praise anything that comes from the left; it depends on what the proposal is. As it happens, the c… https://t.co/2JFfwSEXcM — PolitiTweet.org

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I've also gotten some pushback from Sanders supporters, who complain that I criticized some of his proposals but pr… https://t.co/x2osDBgNcC — PolitiTweet.org

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In practice, hardly anyone is willing to make the libertarian argument against progressive taxes honestly; they alm… https://t.co/rzXztHNF9E — PolitiTweet.org

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Or if you admit that we need a government, maybe it's an argument against any kind of progressive taxation (and als… https://t.co/jW0KBkRz7e — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Not surprisingly, most of the pushback came from the right, where I got a fair number of complaints that the govern… https://t.co/RuvQkVGWAZ — PolitiTweet.org

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I was sort of startled by how much reaction this piece on top tax rates got; most of it positive, but the negative… https://t.co/8azDmD2dLO — PolitiTweet.org

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Elizabeth Warren and Her Party of Ideas https://t.co/GvkzvzDizK — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @greg_ip: IMO @Alan_Krueger & Larry Katz, the pre-eminent labor economists of our generation, revisiting & correcting the flaws of their… — PolitiTweet.org

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And while this new research showing that job descriptions vary with unemployment is new, the falsity of the skills… https://t.co/jLrbmtt3uY — PolitiTweet.org

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Actually, I wouldn't say "lie" here -- reserve that for deliberate falsehood, as opposed to sloppy motivated reaso… https://t.co/PnZhJdqg98 — PolitiTweet.org

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Public debt is not a big problem given low interest rates, says @ojblanchard1 -- president of the American Economic… https://t.co/hroemjCA4r — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump wants a steel wall. Pelosi mocks it as a “beaded curtain “. Compromise: an Iron Curtain. — PolitiTweet.org

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More about the economics of top tax rates 3/ https://t.co/PyQn022BaR — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a member of Congress who danced in college and recently called for a change in tax policy based on the work… https://t.co/tFrIoRjsV9 — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a guy in his 40s who believed that monetary policy should be based on "Atlas Shrugged". Washington declared… https://t.co/ZlcJOEJdBL — PolitiTweet.org

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Not totally normal, because I remember that. I also remember delivering a pretty serious putdown to said economist.… https://t.co/Gu4Pa3QFrb — PolitiTweet.org

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About @AOC and those tax ideas https://t.co/HG4w7pFGSy — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbouie: advocating impeachment with salty language is actually a fairly tame response to a president who put children in internment cam… — PolitiTweet.org

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Thanks, although not sure what I've done to deserve praise -- in fact, sure that I've done bad things along the way… https://t.co/7FDWXZm9xj — PolitiTweet.org

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He doesn't. But almost nobody in the GOP does -- the VAT as unfair trade practice thing is very widespread in the p… https://t.co/58RP4F8UGm — PolitiTweet.org