Last week, as the world caught a bad case of the coronavirus and the stock market began a major swoon, Paul Krugman came to town to talk about zombies.
This, apparently in response to an announcement by the Centers for Disease Control that we need to prepare for a possible pandemic. And that it wasn’t a question of if the virus would spread to the U.S., but when.
Also, the national debt crisis, which the Republicans were so concerned about during the Obama administration, but have recently “done a 180″ on. The size of the debt relative to the size of the national economy looks OK to Krugman. Besides—and this is my favorite among his nuggets of wisdom—”from a planetary perspective, it’s just money we owe ourselves.”
Still, what makes him angry is people who say, “Trump is bad but Bernie might raise my taxes.” To defeat Trump, “we have to set aside that kind of self-indulgence.”
