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Holocaust Survivor tells his sheriff and Trump’s Deportation czar disappearing people that history “is not on your side.”

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I'm often intrigued by questions from strangers. Yesterday on the train, for example, someone recognized me as "that economist" and asked why "America, as the most powerful economy, doesn't run balanced trade or surpluses with all other countries?" "Good question," I replied, continuing ... 1 of 3

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Serious point: This might be the most interventionist American government in my lifetime. The price of just about every good reflects the good thinking of the Commissars in Washington DC implementing their 5-year plan for National Greatness, rather than market forces.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

No revenues but at the same time people here are curtailing their purchases and investments, and other countries *are* collecting tariffs on U.S. imports. The worst of all worlds! Only a stable genius could have accomplished all this!!

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"The U.S. is in the middle of two economic crises. One is being caused directly by tariffs. The other is a crisis of confidence being driven by a crisis of competence."

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Here’s a bunch of times over the past few days that Trump and his team told us they absolutely, positively weren’t going to pause their tariffs. Total climbdown.

submitted 10 days ago • 97 comments

This past week, the Chinese learned 1) exactly where Trump's pain points are; 2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches; and 3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president. Highly useful information.

submitted 10 days ago • 154 comments

this week in america

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The oil price collapse tells me that the Trump recession has already begun, we are just waiting for the statistics to begin recording and measuring the downturn

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More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs www.startribune.com/iron-range-l...

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It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.

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Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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So this was a campaign promise not an observation.

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Hello 911, I’d like to report a murder 🤣💀

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From Dutch program Klibeet www.facebook.com/share/v/15DU...

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I did a full coffee spittake looking at the GDPNow forecast from the Atlanta Fed. I'm not as familiar with it, but good god did the graph catch me off guard. Anyone else worried? www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

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Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

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A top Trump administration official said that, without new declines in opioid deaths, tariffs on Canada and Mexico will continue. But the kind of real-time data he demanded don't exist www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

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This is why we buy Canadian oil. Please share! youtu.be/WLH9nHqJEGo?...

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Making Europe great again, aka the Trump Paradox www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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November 2024: Trump will save the economy March 2025: We have returned to subsistence agriculture

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DOGE is emerging as the most inefficient, inaccurate govt operation If DOGE were a real DOGE, DOGE would shut this DOGE down www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

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Big win for Libertarians For Government Intervention.

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Democrats should not vote for a continuing resolution without language mandating the release of military aid to Ukraine. Because a Putin stooge is in the White House, and the GOP is in his thrall, Ds in Congress are the only backstop against the U.S. becoming an agent of Russia.

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Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

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Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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