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My new book Arguing With Zombies comes out tomorrow; there may still be some tickets for tomorrow night's NY event with Samantha Bee 1/ 92y.org/event/paul-kru…
Since the book designates the claim that tax cuts pay for themselves as the "ultimate zombie", I'd like to offer special thanks to Steve Mnuchin for demonstrating that this zombie is still eating peoples' brains 2/
I'm told Philadelphia is sold out. DC, with Heather Boushey, may or may not be 3/ politics-prose.com/event/book/pau…
Last US stop on initial round will be Boston. Sorry, non-Acela Americans, but Europe needs me 4/ harvard.com/event/paul_kru…
Ah. And here's the web page with events information and links to buy tickets for events still available 5/ medium.com/@wwnorton/paul…
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So I see that Trump is bad-mouthing the Obama economy. Two points. First, there was absolutely no break in economic trends after the 2016 election 1/
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The Times tells us that rising private savings are a problem — and it is. I wrote long ago that we had entered a world in which virtue was vice and prudence was folly, and we're still in that world 1/ nytimes.com/2020/02/17/bus…
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