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GOP rejects ‘millionaire tax’ pitch, advancing breaks for rich Americans "The biggest beneficiaries of the bill would be those earning between $460,800 and $1.1 million per year" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

Scoop: We've obtained internal cables showing how the U.S. government is pushing countries facing tariffs to clear way for Musk's Starlink State Dept says it's good to encourage Starlink adoption Others point to blurring of Musk's private/government roles ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 58 comments

Scoop: Senior aides across Trump admin holding high-level meetings over China curbs on rare earths critical to huge range of U.S. economic activity Deep concern about impact; no easy answers Companies relying on reserves that wont last forever May help explain Trump blink

submitted 47 days ago • 9 comments

Bannon: Elon Musk should be required to submit a certified inventory of all the fraud and waste he found while in government, and there should be full disclosure of any non-governmental entities to have obtained sensitive federal data through DOGE

submitted 47 days ago • 36 comments

President Trump’s abrupt shift in rhetoric Tuesday toward Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell reflected the private lobbying of some of his senior advisers, who urged the president to back off his incendiary attacks.

submitted 48 days ago • 35 comments

For @thedodgemag.bsky.social I wrote a meditative short story about deer hunting (or about the pleasures of simply waiting in the woods, as the case may be). Big thanks to @addisonzeller.bsky.social for giving this piece a home. www.thedodgemag.com/sephmurtagh1

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

If BlueSky aware that over on Twitter a bunch of finance type accounts spread a fake rumor that the WH was considering a 90 day tariff pause, after which markets rose, and then the WH came out and called it fake news, after which markets sank

submitted 64 days ago • 21 comments

I feel for the Silicon Valley & Wall Street types surprised by Trump’s tariffs. Who could have even thought to pay attention to his speeches, the positions on his website, hundreds of newspaper articles, or nationally televised debates. The information was practically impossible to come by

submitted 64 days ago • 20 comments

I do think one amusing thing is that all the industry titans thought if they got on Trump's good side they could protect their own companies, which of course discounted the possibility they could be simultaneously crushed

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

SCOOP: Trump personally selected now widely-mocked formula for determining country-specific tariffs from a menu Numerous aides had for weeks been at work crafting country-specific tariffs that took into account a broad range of tariff & non-tariff barriers www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 67 days ago • 100 comments

JPMorgan raises recession odds to 60% www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/j...

submitted 67 days ago • 14 comments

Tfw you have erected tariff and non tariff barriers

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

All within a few hours --> Howard Lutnick: “I don’t think there’s any chance Trump is going to back off his tariff" Peter Navarro: “This is not a negotiation" Donald Trump: "The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. They always have.”

submitted 67 days ago • 50 comments

Internal White House talking points tell advisers not to suggest that the "reciprocal" tariffs are up for negotiation, @jeffstein.bsky.social and Natalie Allison report www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 67 days ago • 3 comments

I know I’ve been tweeting about this a lot but what’s striking to me is not just that Wall Street so badly underestimated downside risk — it’s that they piled all-in on post-election euphoria that assumed, contrary to all reporting, the tariffs wouldn’t happen

submitted 67 days ago • 31 comments

50% tariffs on the roughly 6,000 people who live in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

submitted 68 days ago • 10 comments

Trump says the US was proportionally the richest it ever was in late 1880s/early 1900s, before in 1913 establishing the federal income tax "for reasons unknown to mankind" (??), which led to the Great Depression, which "would never have happened if they stayed with the tariff policy" (???)

submitted 68 days ago • 52 comments

Crazy chart from @josephpolitano.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

👀 NEW at the IRS: The Trump admin is gaining power over criminal tax investigations -- the first time that's happened since Nixon. Trump installed an Hunter Biden "whistleblower" as deputy of the criminal division. Gary Shapley has told confidants he expects to soon be in charge.

submitted 69 days ago • 22 comments

This in fact would have been an important news story to break in 1939? As someone whose grandfather barely escaped the Nazis?

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

If you want to understand how the US went from the triumphalism of the post-Cold War era to the rise of economic nationalism today, you might consider my new book, now available for pre-order www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/david...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Scoop: White House officials are studying the costs of taking over Greenland, attempting to determine price-tag to maintain & what revenue could be gained, per sources Government officials working on Greenland www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 69 days ago • 643 comments

Photo from Reuters today in a Vancouver liquor store ->

submitted 71 days ago • 35 comments

By definition people should stop calling them “reciprocal” tariffs if they’re a flat universal rate on everyone

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

Claims of 600bln/yr in tariff revenue are impossible. When prices rise, real demand falls reducing possible revenue, with the multiplier usually much higher than 1x overall. Even optimistic assumptions require implausibly high rates to get there. h/t @jeffstein.bsky.social

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

@jeffstein.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here yet but worth sharing

submitted 72 days ago • 16 comments

No criminal record No tattoos No due process Father of a 9 year old, loving pet owner Family insistent that he has no gang affiliations Sent to prison camp amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

submitted 72 days ago • 61 comments

New: Trump privately pushing aides to go bigger on tariff policy ahead of April 2 "Liberation Day" Has recently revived idea of single flat rate on most imports, which had been shelved Stephen K. Bannon says Liberation Day should be a national holiday www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 73 days ago • 49 comments

Scoop: Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies. Officials stressed the estimates were subject to change. If you have more information, my Signal is 202-412-9091. W/ @jeffstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 76 days ago • 1902 comments

The Trump administration's attacks on law firms are making it hard for his adversaries to find lawyers www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Social Security in turmoil: — SSA website crashed four times in 10 days this month — Phone service a mess following Musk-led cuts — Agency no longer has a system to monitor customers’ experience due to DOGE — Major staff exodus www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 77 days ago • 35 comments

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

submitted 77 days ago • 139 comments

Very annoying they messaged "Jeff Goldberg" and not, for instance, "Jeff Stein"

submitted 77 days ago • 8 comments

"We had several black servants who were their friends”

submitted 81 days ago • 9 comments

In an email to The Post, his father, Errol, said Musk and his brother were “not into political nonsense, & we lived in a very well-run, law-abiding country with virtually no crime at all. Actually no crime. We had several black servants who were their friends” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 82 days ago • 181 comments

NEW: The Trump administration's termination of a sensitive program tracking the mass abduction of Ukrainian children may have compromised the database, rendering it inadmissible in court, U.S. lawmakers tell me

submitted 84 days ago • 21 comments

New - Trump aides planning new tariffs on “trillions” more in imports April 2 Shaping up to be +2X escalation of startlingly large tariffs already imposed on Mexico/Canada/China Trump calling it “Liberation Day” Huge implications for market, macro economy www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 83 days ago • 46 comments

New story - The funding deal could bolster Trump/Musk's control over the budget, giving the executive branch broader latitude over funds “It is a huge move to give the White House and DOGE more power of the purse — they will have much more discretion" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 87 days ago • 6 comments

BREAKING: Trump team has removed the top IRS attorney as career staff resist demands to give DOGE access to sensitive taxpayer records, multiple sources say DHS has sought home addresses of undocumented immigrants who pay taxes W/ @jacobbogage.bsky.social & co

submitted 89 days ago • 27 comments