Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

There are many tragedies out there https://t.co/YUPFP6U9J3 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I've been mucking around with the data, and concluded that I don't understand it well enough to referee this difference. But it seems kind of important. Guys? Others? What's going on here? 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Fwiw, Chinn's data seem to suggest that there was a substantial divergence in mid-2021 that has largely gone away. This is core inflation, so it's not just Russian gas 3/ https://t.co/8RouRsSZ5l — PolitiTweet.org

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Menzie Chinn, also a very serious guy, working with much the same data, finds that the rise in relative US inflation is fairly small and not statistically significant 2/ https://t.co/tveSa5vh3x — PolitiTweet.org

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Hmm. An interesting data puzzle. Jason Furman — a very serious guy — has been arguing that US inflation has accelerated much more than Euro area inflation, suggesting a strong role for fiscal policy. I've been accepting that analysis. But ... 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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We don't want to underestimate how tricky this is. But while facile doomsaying may feel emotionally satisfying to the I-told-you-so crowd, it's not helpful. And we need to understand that there's a real risk of overreacting to inflation 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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As it happens, Goldman Sachs just came out with a note (no link) making just about the same point. Key paragraph 3/ https://t.co/2RZ4Sl2iEI — PolitiTweet.org

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I argued that because inflation isn't yet entrenched, there is a "Goldilocks path" for policy, but staying on it will be tricky 2/ https://t.co/BQFiuujnjE — PolitiTweet.org

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Yesterday I wrote about how a recession is possible but not inevitable, and that policy could err in either direction 1/ https://t.co/fVLc5Swa8q — PolitiTweet.org

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Too hot and too cold can both be problems https://t.co/fVLc5Swa8q — PolitiTweet.org

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Wednesday's lecture https://t.co/15QuMEu3b2 — PolitiTweet.org

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True, and yet — GW Bush lied, unmistakably and repeatedly, about his economic proposals in 2000, but I wasn't allowed to use the word "lie" in writing about them. — PolitiTweet.org

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The only way to be safe is to keep the MAGA faction happy — which will soon, if it doesn't already, mean giving money only to Republicans, giving contracts to MAGA-friendly firms, etc. That is, this is a step toward Orban-style crony capitalism 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And even beyond that, the seeming arbitrariness of the textbook rejections is in a way the point. It's a message from the radical right that it can use the power of the state to punish any business, no matter what it does 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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My guess is that the attack on any effort to address students' social and emotional skills goes beyond racial politics; it ties into the right's obsession with performative toughness. Real men don't consider their feelings, they aim lasers at their private parts or something 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The textbooks do make use of social-emotional learning, which conservatives disparage even though it has been shown to be an effective pedagogical tool; their claim is that SEL is a sort of gateway drug to CRT. But do they really believe that? 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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I've been wondering about Florida's rejection of math textbooks, which are hardly hotbeds of critical race theory; the state has been very unwilling to explain its decisions. This Times analysis helps, but I think still misses two important points 1/ https://t.co/K3Q2A5lrzy — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: “Opposition to urban density has done a remarkable amount of harm,” @paulkrugman writes, “and reducing that opposition coul… — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @nytopinion: “It's an all out race to the bottom and it's tearing this country apart,” writes K in Atlanta in a comment on @paulkrugman’… — PolitiTweet.org

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Counterpoint 2/ https://t.co/H0E1CWWOvF — PolitiTweet.org

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Point 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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A prediction about masking: Soon we'll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: “Republicans are following an old playbook,” @paulkrugman writes. “When the people are suffering, you don’t try to solve th… — PolitiTweet.org

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It's quite possible to argue that the radical right isn't a political movement financed by quack medicine; it's a political movement *created* to sell quack medicine 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Alex Jones makes his money selling nutritional supplements 3/ https://t.co/CXNkA8o5ma — PolitiTweet.org

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As Rick Perlstein explained a decade ago, the U.S. radical right has always been closely linked to the marketing of medical as well as political snake oil 2/ https://t.co/TaEXigS7iY — PolitiTweet.org

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Typing one-handed, with the other cupped to protect ... but anyway, important to understand that this kind of thing is actually at the core of right-wing crazy 1/ https://t.co/TUejClbq3C — PolitiTweet.org

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Riling up the base against phantasms https://t.co/Vz8Z8uWc8h — PolitiTweet.org

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Not sure what the moral is, but am always shocked at how small Putin's army turns out to be. Trying to conquer 40 million people with a force around the same size as Lee at Gettysburg or Napoleon at Waterloo. — PolitiTweet.org

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But Ted Cruz said they were superior because their military isn’t woke — PolitiTweet.org