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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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  1. 4 hours ago

    Meanwhile, an idle question: how much effect will it have, not just on our nation's reputation, but to the psychology of ordinary Americans, to realize that such a horrible, disgusting human being could become president -- and command unified support from his party? 2/

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  2. 4 hours ago

    I'm actually making a point of reading as little Mueller news as possible -- I have no expertise and no idea how it will turn out. But you do get a feeling that things are getting a bit scary for the Very Stable Genius 1/

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  3. 4 hours ago

    Weird stuff: a good-faith debate among informed people about macroeconomics

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    7 hours ago

    1. Dems adopt Romney's healthcare plan in bid for compromise 2. Republicans spit on the offer and relentlessly sabotage the plan 3. Democrats give up on compromise and embrace Medicare-for-All 4. Republicans: "A-ha! Single-payer was your plan all along!"

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  5. 7 hours ago

    And yes, to the extent that it might matter, most people aren't seeing the economic growth anyway 3/

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  6. 7 hours ago

    D wave in 2006 and R wave in 2014 both took place despite job growth as good as or better than we're seeing now. In midterms, it's not the economy, stupid 2/

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  7. 7 hours ago

    Still reading lots of articles speculating on why the economy isn't helping the GOP more. But as poli sci ppl know, it never seems to matter much in midterms. Here's % growth in jobs to November versus change in House seats held by the WH party 1/

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  8. 8 hours ago

    This kind of says it all.

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  9. 8 hours ago

    Why we didn't get the recovery we should have

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  10. Sep 13

    It was precisely the people and schools most dedicated to microeconomic foundations who led us into a dark age of macroeconomics, resurrecting ancient fallacies as reasons to pursue bad policies 2/

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  11. Sep 13

    I beg to differ from Larry Summers here, although I agree with his broad thrust. It wasn't so much that microfoundations provided no help in explaining or resolving the recession; they were an active hindrance 1/

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  12. Sep 13

    Heckuva job, Brockie

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  13. Sep 13

    Memories 2/

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  14. Sep 13

    The inability of centrists to acknowledge conservative bad faith remains remarkable 1/

    The backlash against the shows why we need more conservative journalists, not fewer, doing fact checks.
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  15. Sep 13

    You keep thinking Trump's vileness and dishonesty has lost its power to shock, then he takes it to a new level

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  16. Sep 13

    "big"

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  17. Sep 13

    Why oh why aren't working-class voters bis supporters of the Trump tax cut?

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  18. Sep 12

    Banks got rescued, but then policymakers turned their backs on workers

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  19. Sep 12

    I sometimes see journalists saying that their big error was failing to understand white working-class grievance. But if you ask me, their biggest sin has been failure to understand the GOP's complete bad faith and cynicism 5/

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  20. Sep 12

    Yet most of the commentariat was not just credulous, but surreally so 4/

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