RT @paulwaldman1: "Are we really going to endorse face-eating?" asks Senate leader of Leopards Eating People's Faces Party in brave speech…
Paul Krugman Tue 02 Feb 2021 15:32

RT @nytopinion: "This isn’t an offer of compromise," @paulkrugman writes of a Republican plan to drastically reduce pandemic relief. "It’s…
Paul Krugman Mon 01 Feb 2021 18:16

RT @sam_a_bell: Portman arguments against Biden COVID proposal on @CNNSotu: -Target fiscal support to poorest Americans -think of the defi…
Paul Krugman Sun 31 Jan 2021 18:55

Also, the major items in the Biden proposal are very popular, generally with >60% approval. Why defer to a party that is lockstep opposed to what the public wants? 3/
Paul Krugman Sun 31 Jan 2021 18:20

Why, exactly, is bipartisanship something to be valued right now? When a political party by and large still won't accept Biden's legitimacy and embraces Jewish space laser people, why is it a virtue to cooperate with it? 2/
Paul Krugman Sun 31 Jan 2021 18:15

So Rs want Biden to drastically scale back economic relief in the name of bipartisanship. Their offer is insultingly inadequate, and their claims that using reconciliation would "poison the well" are rich given how they rammed through the 2017 tax cut. But there's more 1/
Paul Krugman Sun 31 Jan 2021 18:10

What I'm reading. The question is, who are the predators this time? Hint: it's not the short-sellers https://t.co/8Cob6zdDuu
Paul Krugman Sun 31 Jan 2021 12:55

Listened to it, and congratulations to the editors. They almost made me sound coherent. I do think it was an interesting conversation, and don't think that's just bc I'm biased.
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 20:48

Some people still insist on that. Surprisingly, that includes quite a few NYC doctors https://t.co/dwgGSJFi3x
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 19:28

Deep financial insight of the day (while paying bills): since real interest rates are negative, everyone should go deep in debt and use the money to buy Forever Stamps.
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 19:08

RT @WalshFreedom: Honestly, not much of a change at all.
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 14:18

RT @nytopinion: What did @paulkrugman have to say to readers who commented on his column, "The G.O.P. Is in a Doom Loop of Bizarro"? Read t…
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 13:58

The IMF urging big spending, never mind the deficit. Toto, I don't think we're in 2010 anymore https://t.co/VgGtF80GzH
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 13:38

I'm not suggesting extraordinary retribution; all we need to do is enforce the law and not reward complicity with malevolence — as opposed to giving right-wingers a free pass the rest of us don't get. You'll be surprised how much that helps 6/
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 13:33

Giving Trumpists business gigs and academic visiting appointments encouraged their successors to try overturning an election 5/
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 13:33

What all this says is that all the past accommodations made for these people were deeply destructive. Letting militia members who menaced state houses walk away free set the stage for the storming of the Capitol 4/
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 13:33

The apparatchiks are happy to undermine democracy if it's good for their career. It's a rude shock finding that Trump White House on your resume actually hurts your prospects 3/
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 13:33

RT @nytopinion: "Even I had some lingering hope that the Republican establishment might try to end Trumpism," @paulkrugman writes. "But suc…
Paul Krugman Fri 29 Jan 2021 01:12

RT @JaneMayerNYer: ?Trump Hotel, DC - Looks like they drained the swamp https://t.co/dgDg3HxRbp
Paul Krugman Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:30

Hard to feel any sympathy for the short-sellers here — they knew the business they had gotten into. But also no sympathy for the people who will lose their shirts 4/
Paul Krugman Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:30

So here we have a Reddit mob pushing a stock price to levels that force short-sellers to fold, despite the absence of any reason for such a dramatic rise or to believe the price makes sense 3/
Paul Krugman Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:25

S-V argued that the players who keep prices from going crazy tend to be specialists with limited capital — and that when prices go sufficiently crazy, that capital ends up being depleted, making them unable to do their job 2/
Paul Krugman Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:25

This crazy GameStop story feels as if someone deliberately set out to illustrate the classic Shleifer-Vishny model of how markets can fail 1/ Link https://t.co/2d2OSCLHWT
Paul Krugman Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:25

RT @petridishes: Mitch McConnell Vows To Grind Senate To A Halt And Make It An Awful, Unproductive Place If Anyone Threatens His Power To G…
Paul Krugman Wed 27 Jan 2021 17:19

She is, of course, part of a team — and it's a huge contrast with the outgoing team. Basically, to have been part of Team Trump you had to have gotten the last financial crisis wrong; Team Biden, reassuringly, is composed of people who got it right 6/
Paul Krugman Tue 26 Jan 2021 14:28