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Kind of interesting that Trump seems more aware than Congressional Rs that failure to provide more Covid relief will be a political disaster 1/ https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fworld%2Fco
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One thing I don't think is fully appreciated is the fact that Republicans in general, and Trump a fortiori, have no idea what causes recessions. If they've even heard of
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Nobody — nobody — in the party blinked an eye when Trump's tax cuts for corporations and the rich led to surging deficits 2/ And the hypocrisy over supposed subsidization
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Gag me with a silver spoon. If there's one thing we've learned over the past decade, it is that there are no Republican deficit hawks — only poseurs who claim
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A wonkish thread on the economics of unemployment insurance. Why? Because Republicans are talking nonsense, but also because it seems to me that even some of the people calling for
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So, there are 30 million Americans on unemployment benefits and only 5 million job offers; so Rs think we should slash benefits by 2/3 to force workers to take the
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A couple of months ago, before the great reopening disaster, I did several interviews in which I was asked about the tradeoff between the economy and fighting the pandemic. I
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GOP flailing over what to do now that reopening has stalled sheds light on the old "Evil or stupid?" controversy. It's now clear that the answer is, both 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/worries-about-trump-and-a-bloo
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Is this even allowed? I though you were only permitted (and required) to write "Democrats in disarray." But seriously, Rs are clearly at a total loss on economic policy 1/
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McConnell totally misunderstands the problem; thinks this is about stimulus, not support as the virus rages. So no deal on unemployment benefits any time soon, with extra benefits going away
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Coming back to this shocking-but-not-surprising report about how the Trumpists decided that we should live free and die. I was struck by how Italy (!) became first a reassuring model,
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Where 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.
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