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One of the great ironies of Trump’s trade war will be the collapse of “Drill Baby Drill” as oil prices drop below shale patch breakevens

“Why are you banging your head against that wall? “Because it feels so good when I stop.”

I'd love to be a little Jeffrey Goldberg fly on the Signal wall to see the message that Musk is sliding to Navarro DMs right now 🤣

Well, maybe he was feeling too liberated, who are we to judge?

I don't understand people who want to preserve the "American Way of Life"? Aren't we all fat and addicted to opiates and in jobs we hate?

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

The manufacturing sector isn't responding well to the tariffs designed to help the manufacturing sector.

Amazing how Tesla consumers now are going to be made up of people who believe climate change is a hoax, voted for "drill, baby, drill" and usually despise rich men north of Richmond 🤔

If you are implementing a credible plan that entails short-term pain for long-term gain the stock market will go up not down.

I lived long enough to see Bowman being outhawked at the FOMC!! 4 dots for no cuts today IMHO: Hammack (obvs), Schmid, Musalem and Logan...

Having nonsense views about the dollar and the trade balance: easy. Having nonsense views that are mutually contradictory: that takes talent paulkrugman.substack.com/p/from-exorb...

Dear Santa, all I want this year is for US inflation to actually stay down. No sneaky January plot twists like last year, please. I can't handle another u-turn from Powell.

Waller leaning towards a Dec cut... but he was also leaning towards a 25 bps cut in Sept, and then voted for a 50. Another curveball? Or should we hand his credibility back? 🤔

Trump is tanking the stock market now, so when he is president it has a better chance of it showing stellar returns

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