Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

This is like the argument that the answer to America's long-run fiscal problems, if any, is to encourage people to start smoking again — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

The governor of Mississippi as the state surpasses NY in Covid deaths per capita: “When you believe in eternal life — when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don’t have to be so scared of things.” https://t.co/37MZkp9e7s God help us. — PolitiTweet.org

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All maps of America look the same https://t.co/bXISXJU8ED — PolitiTweet.org

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And let's make some allowances: this has been a big push into novel territory. NJ has done quite well at getting shots into arms; natural and OK to have some record-keeping stumbles along the way 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Record-keeping is surely part of it. I got both shots in NJ, at a state-run center — but when I went to download for the state app, the records only showed one shot. Took a couple of emails to sort out 1/ https://t.co/A3T7EfkShZ — PolitiTweet.org

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Obviously, low density doesn't cause Covid. Instead, it's correlated with right-wing politics and refusing vaccines in favor of livestock dewormer. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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In fact, at this point there's a negative correlation between density and Covid death rates (7-day average) 3/ https://t.co/TEksslgzgz — PolitiTweet.org

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One observation: early on people thought the pandemic was a problem for densely populated urban areas. But MS is very rural 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Mississippi has passed a grim milestone: Its total Covid deaths per capita exceed the toll in New York, which mostly happened early in the pandemic when we didn't know much about the disease — and didn't have vaccines 1/ https://t.co/f7nWmDfTb6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Bagram is the ivermectin of Afghanistan policy https://t.co/6azTdjF4b6 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @nytopinion: "For once I think you're putting a partisan spin on something that isn't," @paulkrugman responded to Marc, a reader in Verm… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: "There are now, in effect, two Americas: the America of high-tech, high-income enclaves that are unaffordable for the less… — PolitiTweet.org

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We should always acknowledge problems; the CA housing crisis is real, and is causing a lot of harm. But we should fight placing special emphasis on problems that happen to be visible to upper-middle-class eyes 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Some of these tragedies involve children: CA has a low infant mortality rate, TX a high one, but again that's off camera 6/ https://t.co/YwnKpBj3PG — PolitiTweet.org

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Overall, Texas life expectancy is 2.4 years shorter than CA. That means that there must be many invisible tragedies 5/ https://t.co/lLw749iYft — PolitiTweet.org

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The thing is, the tragedy of families that can't afford necessary health care takes place effectively off camera and doesn't offend one's eyes. Does that make it unimportant 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Texas, with cheap housing, has many fewer homeless. But almost a quarter of nonelderly lack health insurance, compared with 11% in CA 3/ https://t.co/xxUnSIRPYb — PolitiTweet.org

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The homeless in CA are around 0.4% of the population 2/ https://t.co/OtaRJ2TEG1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Negative responses to today's column tend to focus on lot on CA's homeless problem, which I acknowledge. But I find myself thinking about our tendency to give too much weight to the misery we see, versus that we don't 1/ https://t.co/q30azyioJt — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a really bad time for self-promotion. But fwiw, an interesting algorithm says I'm an influencer. Glad to see Joe Stiglitz ranking so high https://t.co/MfNRUihEim https://t.co/RPcj4uQ7Eo — PolitiTweet.org

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Chutzpah is when you kill your parents, then ask for special consideration because you're an orphan. When Ron DeSantis attacks Biden for failing to end Covid, that's chutzpah https://t.co/JiqmkrgmbC — PolitiTweet.org

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California has defied the economic doomsayers, despite its housing crisis https://t.co/q30azyioJt — PolitiTweet.org

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Good for them. Hopefully the first of many steps https://t.co/Xem479Y2aK — PolitiTweet.org

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Relevant here 3/ https://t.co/64uvgu4NXr — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Nate_Cohn: Is the 'chaos' materially effecting the evacuation? Is the evacuation going worse than the numbers suggest? Or does the 'on… — PolitiTweet.org

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Yet high-income workers are still moving to CA. Low-income are moving out, bc of housing costs 2/ https://t.co/XcUMFCY4bV — PolitiTweet.org

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Things people may not know: California is often described as high-tax, Texas as low-tax. But that's only true for high income. For the bottom 60%, taxes are lower in CA 1/ https://t.co/CyhM7wYqNe — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes it does. Tax evasion and illegal transactions are still the only serious uses of cryptocurrency. https://t.co/ixcWtRrNmU — PolitiTweet.org

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What a moment in America. What a hill to die on. — PolitiTweet.org

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Shamelessness is their superpower — PolitiTweet.org