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  • All the Good Economic News Vindicates Bidenomics

    10/07/2024 5:50:00 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 47 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Oct. 7, 2024, 5:00 p.m. ET | Paul Krugman
    It’s hard to overstate just how good recent economic numbers have been. On Friday, we learned that job growth is still solid while unemployment remains historically low. I think it’s safe to say that Donald Trump’s 2020 prediction that a Joe Biden presidency would mean a “depression” — a claim he’s now repeating by predicting a “great depression” if Kamala Harris wins — didn’t come true. A week earlier we learned that inflation has continued to decline and is now more or less at the Federal Reserve’s target of 2 percent. This success has defied the view, held by many...
  • Why Trump Is Lying About Disaster Relief

    10/03/2024 5:00:21 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 53 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Oct. 3, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET | Paul Krugman
    On Tuesday, I was part of a City University of New York event about economic perceptions, which was briefly disrupted by a protester yelling out that President Biden isn’t helping some of the areas afflicted by Hurricane Helene. The guy’s politics were unclear — he was also yelling something about Israel — but it was an indication that Donald Trump’s latest lie has gone viral.In case you missed it, Trump has been trying to exploit the natural disaster for political gain, claiming he heard that the federal government — Biden — and North Carolina’s Democratic governor are “going out of...