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Paul Krugman

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Nobel laureate. Op-Ed columnist, @nytopinion. Author, “The Return of Depression Economics,” “The Great Unraveling,” "Arguing With Zombies," + more.

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1Apr 23, '23So my blue check has reappeared. I had nothing to do with that, and am definitely not paying26.4×10.6M15k785119
2Jan 21, '24Although we're all making fun of DeSantis's humiliation, we shouldn't forget that his anti-vax crusade — in service of his doomed run — probably killed thousands of people5.3×2.1M14k2.8k170
3Mar 29, '20America's response to the coronavirus is the worst in the world, which is shocking and has a lot to do with a leader who is completely unfit, temperamentally and intellectually, fo5.1×046k15k822
4Oct 7, '19So did Trump just betray the Kurds because (a) He has business interests in Turkey (b) Erdogan, being a brutal autocrat, is his kind of guy (c) His boss Vladimir Putin told him to 4.6×052k14k185
5May 22, '20Has anyone pointed out that Biden is capable of admitting error? That by itself puts him on a higher moral plane than you know who4.6×063k8.7k98
6Jul 25, '23By now many people have noticed that Jason “try that in a small town” Aldean grew up in a city with 150k people. What you may not know: last year Macon had 70 homicides. NYC, with 4.0×1.6M11k2.4k192
7Dec 19, '17Susan Collins says she's concerned about deficits, and that's why she's voting for the tax bill. I'm watching my weight, and that's why I'm having a huge piece of pie with ice crea3.8×042k13k0
8Sep 30, '24We’ve all become desensitized, but it’s amazing how at this point the Trump campaign rests entirely on denouncing things that aren’t happening — a imaginary bad economy, imaginary 3.8×1.5M20k6.2k492
9May 7, '19I'm old enough to remember when Presidential Medals of Freedom were given for showing courage and making sacrifices on behalf of the nation and the world. Tiger Woods ... hits golf3.5×031k6.6k87
10Jan 3, '23I've seen jokes about Liz Cheney as speaker, but seriously: why can't this end with 7 sane Republicans joining Democrats to elect someone who isn't totally despicable?3.4×1.4M20k2.1k39
11Dec 3, '17Remember: the two main means-tested programs in America are Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps). In each case most beneficiaries are children, elderly, or disabled. The idea that we're3.3×031k15k0
12Sep 21, '17Think about what it means that Jimmy Kimmel has evidently done more homework on health than any Republican senator over the past 8 years3.3×035k13k0
13Apr 24, '20I could be wrong, but somehow the Lysol moment feels like it could be a psychological turning point — the moment when even a lot of Trump diehards face up to his essential unfitnes3.3×037k5.8k238
14Feb 23, '20Well, Bernie Sanders is now the clear favorite for the Democratic nomination. Lots of things to say about that, but the most important is that he is NOT a left-leaning version of T3.3×043k6.2k408
15Oct 10, '16Let's be clear: a candidate for president promised to put his opponent in jail if he wins. Everything else is secondary.3.2×025k15k0
16Jan 21, '18By the way, if you're wondering why coverage of the huge marches yesterday seems kind of muted, it's because those hundreds of thousands weren't sitting in diners in small-town Ame2.9×032k10k0
17Jun 30, '22Undoing Roe is awful. Kneecapping environmental regulation is existential. This Supreme Court has just come down on the side of civilizational collapse.2.7×033k6.1k140
18Aug 9, '20I don't know if anyone else has said this, but payroll tax cuts are the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy. They won't do anything to solve the employment crisis, but will have 2.5×027k8.5k371
19Sep 6, '17We are, as pointed out many times, lowest-taxed major advanced nation. Repetition of this lie shows contempt for intelligence of public2.3×019k11k0
20Dec 7, '18I read the news today, oh boy. Shocked at how little there is about the anti-democratic coup in Wisconsin. A once-progressive US state has just been turned into Hungary on the Grea2.3×024k8.2k37
21Nov 14, '18Not really tracking this whole Pelosi-as-speaker thing. But really: the most effective speaker in modern history, who just oversaw a highly effective campaign, and is still vigorou2.3×026k6.7k28
22Apr 19, '22A 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 neve2.3×021k3k237
23Jan 16, '18So two members of the world's greatest deliberative body claim that the president of the world's greatest nation isn't a racist because he said "shithouse", not "shithole". The des2.2×026k7.1k0
24Sep 24, '17Not the only one saying this: Puerto Rico and USVI contain millions of US citizens. Why aren't Congress and WH focused on disaster relief?2.1×020k8.5k0
25Sep 30, '17Cholera. In a US territory. Among US citizens. In the 21st century. Heckuva job, Trumpie.2.1×019k8.3k0
26Jul 21, '20Did I miss Trump saying something about the killing of Judge Esther Salas's son? Or did he exhaust his reserves of compassion feeling sorry for Ghislaine Maxwell?2.1×027k5.7k51
27Dec 11, '21So I'm reading that Elon Musk, who founded Tesla in 2003 and first had a profitable year in 2020, is concerned that Build Back Better might, for a while, add modestly to the budget2.0×028k3.8k234
28Jul 1, '20By now we were supposed to have a fading pandemic and a roaring recovery. Instead we have a fading recovery and a roaring pandemic. And its all about bad leadership.1.9×024k5.9k70
29Nov 9, '17This seems like a moment to remember that Hillary Clinton lost largely because the media treated her -- legal -- use of a private email server as a huge scandal, giving it more cov1.9×020k7k0
30Nov 13, '22Can Ron DeSantis effectively challenge Trump? I have no idea. But one thing I hope doesn't get forgotten in the horse-race coverage is DeSantis's major achievement as governor: the1.9×023k4.5k282
31Dec 20, '17What I really don't understand here is Susan Collins. She came out of health care a hero. Now she is, rightly, seen as a fool, a tool, or both. And she can never get it back. What 1.9×018k5.9k0
32Mar 4, '17Remember how Trump became presidential three days ago, because he managed to read right through a speech without grabbing any body parts?1.9×022k6.2k0
33Nov 30, '16Another metric: Trump would have to do one Carrier-sized deal a week for 30 years to save as many jobs as Obama's auto bailout1.8×013k9.9k0
34Aug 10, '18The GOP's success in demonizing Nancy Pelosi is remarkable and depressing. By any standard I can think of she's been the most effective legislative leader in decades, instrumental 1.8×018k6.1k70
35May 15, '17Surreal times. If we had two patriotic parties in this country, impeachment proceedings would begin tomorrow.1.8×018k7.3k0
36Dec 2, '17My lesson from years of political punditry is to never give up -- despite how terrible things may look, redemption remains possible. Still, let's reflect for a moment on what we've1.8×016k7.6k0
37Feb 4, '17If Trump can call Robart a "so-called" judge, can we call him -- with infinitely better justification -- a "so-called" president?1.8×016k7.4k0
38Jul 6, '20The 2020 campaign so far: Trump: I'm racist. Vote for me! Voters: No thanks. Also, Biden might keep us from dying. Trump: But I'm really, really racist! You have to vote for me!1.8×023k4.5k84
39Oct 26, '21Says the guy whose company was bailed out by the Obama stimulus and currently has a multi-billion dollar government contract1.8×023k4k258
40Dec 3, '18Their insecurity in the face of a bright, charismatic woman of color is spectacular. I particularly like the constant claims that she's stupid when, let's face it, the average GOP 1.7×023k4k69
41Oct 22, '17A chicken and egg question: does working for Trump destroy your integrity? Or do only people without integrity work for Trump?1.7×018k5.6k0
42Oct 4, '20Ok, I’ve had my second cup of coffee, so it’s time to change my outfit twice and sign some blank sheets of paper1.7×025k2.7k36
43Oct 16, '21Future historians — if there are any future historians, that is, if civilization doesn't collapse — will be astonished that we let the planet burn for the sake of an industry that 1.6×017k5.5k245
44Mar 23, '20Naive question. McConnell would probably have his bill if he hadn't gotten greedy and included that slush fund, and could now be boasting about how he and Trump rescued the economy1.6×020k3.7k58
45Dec 19, '17The tax bill, as written, will eventually give 83 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent. The GOP defense of the bill is that this is so awful future Congresses will reverse 1.6×013k7.9k0
46Jul 1, '20Another thought on Arizona's numbers: AZ, with 7 million people, is reporting as many new cases per day as the European Union, with 446 million.1.6×016k6.1k141
47Aug 12, '22So the FBI raid on Mar a Lago was just a fission expedition?1.6×022k2.2k104
48Jan 5, '19This is a good discussion of AOC's call for a top tax rate of 70-80%. Tl; dr: she's actually saying what top public finance economists have been saying for some time. Not at all ou1.5×016k5.5k269
49Oct 21, '24Which is more amazing: the fact that America has vastly outperformed other advanced economies without higher inflation, or the fact that Biden gets no credit?1.5×617k15k5.1k490
50Dec 15, '17It's easy to get acclimatized to our situation, but step back and look at what's happening both on taxes and on the Trump coverup: one of our two major political parties, currently1.5×015k5.9k0
51Sep 26, '19This sort of confirms Warren's whole worldview, doesn't? Big Finance, given the choice between treason and a wealth tax, chooses treason1.5×016k5.1k160
52Jun 21, '20America's disastrous pandemic response, in one picture1.5×015k5.4k278
53Jun 26, '20Don't bothsides this pandemic. America's epic, lethal fail was driven by the fecklessness of an anti-science party that didn't want to face reality1.5×014k5k141
54Jan 2, '19Lots of things to say about Elizabeth Warren, but top of my list is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- a truly original policy idea that was incredibly successful until Tr1.5×019k4k36
55Mar 5, '22The speed with which Russia has been cut off from the world economy has been as stunning as the slowness with which Russian forces have advanced in Ukraine. But can Putin offset th1.5×017k3.7k881
56Jul 17, '20Where we are now: at this point, it will be almost impossible for Trump to win reelection legitimately. It's quite possible, however, that he will try to steal the election. And if1.5×014k5k217
57Jan 31, '21So 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 "p1.4×017k4.3k172
58Nov 3, '24Trump, overnight: “If Kamala wins, you are 3 days away from the start of a 1929-style economic depression.” What has happened since the last time he predicted a depression if a Dem1.4×575k14k4.1k347
59Jun 8, '19As far as I can tell the Mexican standoff has ended, for now, pretty much along the lines of NAFTA/USMCA: Trump huffed and puffed, US business managed to convey the message that a 1.4×015k4.7k54
60Jan 16, '18I've been trying to put my finger on what's so disturbing about the spectacle of Cotton and Perdue lying so obviously and blatantly to protect Trump. And I think I have it: here yo1.4×014k5.6k1
61Aug 24, '18I keep imagining what it must be like being an American who puts his or her life on the line in the nation's service -- military, CIA, etc. -- knowing that the Commander-in-chief i1.4×015k4.7k23
62Oct 30, '18To prepare for the next 7 news cycles, remember three principles: 1. There are no limits 2. There is no bottom 3. These people lie about everything1.4×014k5.4k35
63Mar 4, '20Bernie's big problem isn't that he's a progressive; it's that he's a progressive with an attitude: calling himself a socialist when he isn't, denouncing anyone who raises questions1.4×017k2.9k195
64Nov 9, '21Why do we have a shortage of truck drivers and warehouse workers? It's a deep mystery1.3×016k2.9k379
65Mar 7, '20There are now good reasons to believe that the coronavirus will hit America especially hard, even though it originated in China. Why? Because it plays into multiple pre-existing we1.3×013k3.6k371
66Sep 21, '18When I was young and foolish, I believed that there were lots of bad ideas out there, but not that many truly horrible people. But it turns out that these horrible people not only 1.3×014k4k50
67Dec 24, '18Remember, when stocks go up, it's proof of Trump's genius, but when they go down, it's someone else's fault. Probably a conspiracy by the deep state's allies, the deep private sect1.3×016k3.5k25
68Feb 13, '17I try not to look back, but every once in a while: we could have had a smart, sane president, but media preferred to hype email non-scandal1.3×013k4.6k0
69Oct 30, '22So is an attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House, which severely injured her husband, and seems to have reflected right-wing extremism, going to be a one-day story? Really?1.2×013k2.6k54
70Sep 24, '18Worth remembering that Kavanaugh is a hard-line, radical right-winger who would surely bring down Roe v Wade, hammer workers' rights, and undermine government regulation. We were s1.2×013k4.2k14
71Sep 27, '18Admission: I chickened out on watching the hearing, went for a run instead. Multiple women in the park walking their dogs and watching hearing on their phones. I think this is a bi1.2×015k3.1k21
72Mar 21, '18Serious question: everything suggests that Putin has something on Trump which is bad enough that Trump is too scared to voice even a hint of criticism. But what could he possibly h1.2×011k3.3k9
73Jul 18, '17It looks as if Trump won't pass any major laws. He'll have to settle for destroying America's ethical standards and moral authority.1.2×012k4.4k0
74Aug 28, '19Oh, God. Are we still pretending that the Tea Party was about small government and concern about budget deficits? It was always, from the beginning, about racial anger; opposition 1.2×013k3.3k132
75Dec 18, '18If there's one thing that is absolutely clear after the past 2 years on health care, it is that Rs have no alternative to the ACA, and never will. Their plan is for people to get s1.1×011k4.4k32
76Mar 11, '20Just to say the obvious: Sanders has a big choice now. He has no chance of winning the Democratic nomination. But if he withdraws gracefully, he can play a large role in shaping th1.1×014k2.1k60
77Aug 19, '18War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Truth isn’t truth.1.1×012k3.6k27
78Mar 26, '20Silly question, I know, but have any of the right-wing pundits who ridiculed concerns about Covid-19 apologized, let alone done any soul-searching about why they were so wrong? Eve1.1×014k2.4k46
79Jun 18, '20Funny how these things keep happening — scheduling a rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, using a Nazi symbol in campaign ads. Why, it's almost as if the Trump campaign is full of white s1.1×012k3.8k96
80Aug 28, '18Claiming that the Clinton email "scandal" was a major crime is just a step up from Pizzagate. Nobody should ever take Graham seriously again (except as a threat to the republic)1.1×012k3.9k15
81Aug 7, '22What a moment. Don't let anyone minimize it by saying that progressives didn't get everything they wanted. Democrats — and it was only Democrats — have given us a real chance at av1.1×015k2.2k70
82Jun 14, '19When you lie about everything, all the time, it has consequences. Maybe Iran did attack those tankers. But nobody will believe it just because the Trump administration says so.1.1×014k2.7k21
83Aug 24, '18FWIW, I don't think Trump will resign. I think he'll do anything -- up to and including starting a war to change the subject -- rather than let justice catch up with him. I hope I'1.1×011k3.1k26
84Aug 6, '22Conversation overheard at supermarket meat counter: Customer:"Meat just keeps getting more expensive" Butcher: "Actually, prices have been coming down"1.1×013k1k120
85Aug 7, '20Sorry, but I don’t take supposed deficit hawks seriously unless they’re willing to give up something they want. If they’re fine with tax cuts but balk at helping the unemployed, th1.1×013k3k67
86Jun 1, '20If this were a movie, we'd say that the screenwriting was too heavy-handed. I mean, having the tough-talking president flee into an underground bunker in the face of unarmed demons1.1×013k3k73
87Apr 2, '20Took me a second to get this 1/1.1×015k1.9k73
88Sep 11, '24Just a reminder: Trump didn’t have a bad night. This is just who he is, and has been all along, visible to anyone who looked past the sanewashing. Probably this is also who Harris 1.0×422k20k3.8k202
89Mar 24, '19Three things: 1. We need to see the report, not just Trump appointees' summary 2. Anyone who thought Mueller was a silver bullet that would bring Trump down was living in a fantasy1.0×012k3.1k28
90Nov 3, '21Multiple reasons Dems are having a hard time right now. But they'd surely be doing better if Joe Manchin hadn't spent months futzing around and denying them the ability to claim th1.0×015k1.8k45
91Mar 5, '20About Warren: deeply sad. She was the candidate of ideas, the best hope we had of getting a strongly progressive agenda actually enacted. Plus enormous energy and personal charm. W1.0×013k2k149
92Jun 19, '18Sorry, Mr. Donohue, this IS who you are. People like you made a deal with racists so you could get deregulation and tax cuts. Every step you took was leading to this moment.1.0×011k3.7k18
93Jan 11, '21The basic story of the GOP is that it was taken over by plutocrats, who invited racists and conspiracy theorists into the tent because they thought it would help them cut taxes. Th1.0×012k2.8k242
94May 21, '22I guess everything really is upside down in Australia: a conservative lost an election — and conceded1.0×015k1.3k40
95Sep 18, '24So Trump has gone from claiming that tariffs don’t raise prices to claiming that tariffs on imported food will make groceries cheaper. Coming next: tariffs will make you lose weigh1.0×402k15k3.5k160
96Jan 23, '20The man who predicted that the Trump tax cut would pay for itself says Greta Thunberg needs lessons in economics 1/1.0×011k3k65
97Dec 24, '18People, time for an intervention. This guy has nukes.1.0×011k2.9k22
98Feb 14, '21The morning after. Even though we knew it was coming, still shocking that the party of Dwight Eisenhower now believes that it's OK to use violence to reverse an election defeat. We0.9×012k2.2k36
100Feb 19, '21Personal good news: got my 2nd vaccine. Time to party in a mosh pit! Actually, gonna keep double-masking until we all have the all clear. But it is a huge relief.0.7×012k4258

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