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Nobel laureate. Op-Ed columnist, . Author, “The Return of Depression Economics,” “The Great Unraveling,” “The Age of Diminished Expectations” + more.

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Joined October 2008

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  1. Wrong. They're not SUPPOSED TO BE political pawns. But obviously they now are,

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    Jan 3

    House Democrats just adopted a rule about deficit spending. thinks that's a mistake.

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    Jan 3

    We are seeking two , one focused on high-end wealth, one on other topics related to inequality. Application period remains open until January 15, 2019. Stone Center in NYC.

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  4. Jan 3

    If you don't tear up a bit at this image of a better nation, you don't get what America is all about

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  5. Jan 3

    PS: some of my best friends are bald white men. Really. I might eventually become one myself. But it's the exclusivity of the fraternity that shines, and I mean shines, through

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  6. Jan 3

    So what we learned today is that there really are two Americas -- but rural/urban college/non-college doesn't really capture it. It's diversity in race and gender versus, um, bald white men.

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    Jan 3

    There are more completely bald men on stage with Trump than women in his cabinet.

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  8. Jan 3

    Basically, my parents gave themselves a $2 trillion tax cut and all I got was a couple of decent quarters 5/

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  9. Jan 3

    All this suggests that the growth spurt in the 2nd and 3rd quarters was no more durable -- and less impressive! -- than the growth spurt in mid-2014, which I don't remember anyone hailing as an Obama boom 4/

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  10. Jan 3

    Very recent data and leading indicators suggest a significant slowdown currently underway -- not a recession, but growth probably under 2 percent 3/

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  11. Jan 3

    "Nowcasts" of 4th quarter growth suggest that it was around 2 1/2 percent, not much above trend. 2/

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  12. Jan 3

    Everyone's focused on the political news, as they should be. But there's some important economic news too, and not just the market having another fainting spell: it's becoming clear that the Trump boom, such as it was, is over 1/

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    Jan 3

    Wingnuts have exposed her as fun, good natured and telegenic. Deep own, wingnuts. I don’t think she can recover.

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  15. Jan 3

    Asked if she considers herself Mr. Trump’s equal, she replied, “The Constitution does.”

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  16. Jan 3

    Nate Silver on why journalists doing political coverage *should* look at polls. Agreed! Ties in with my point about Paul Ryan, treated by conventional wisdom as God's gift to conservative credibility when, flimflam aside, the public actually disliked him from day one

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  17. Jan 3

    As Joe Biden said in a loud stage whisper when Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, this is a big f****** deal

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  19. Jan 3

    What we're seeing here is both sexism and the bias of the news media, which isn't so much partisan as tilted toward politicians who pretend to care about centrist pieties even when they actually treat them with contempt 6/

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  20. Jan 3

    Meanwhile, press reports about Pelosi's unlikability were legion -- even though she was viewed no less favorably than most speakers 5/

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