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Retired S. Calif. biz journalist. Hacking up tennis cts, chasing fish on the fly, restoring CA native plants, rethinking macroecon, ?ing media. Wisc. native.
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Lotta manpower. Could probably be better used to find true criminals.
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Impressive. Never had luck with garlic (S. CA coastal). For awhile, it all came from China, and rotted quickly.
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Reason #59 why kleptocracies don't work.
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Boasberg is like the magistrate in Kafka's "The Trial."
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It's panicky financial players who don't understand where $ come from ... then it's reality settling in.
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One problem: Too many entanglements w/ financial interests.
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I think I've had a beer or two there! 😉
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So amusing, it should be illegal.
And drivers (free testers) have to manually send errors back to Tesla? Lotta fatal mistakes being missed?
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Same game played locally in Huntington Beach, CA by 100% MAGA city council.
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Fishing expedition.
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"“The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t read..." 😬
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Gov't prints $. Why would it borrow $?
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Catering to low-information viewer doesn't work.
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So the CBO debt-scolding conclusions are also totally unreliable?
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Privatize the profit, socialize the risk.
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fyi, by former Fed heavy, Harvard law prof, Daniel Tarullo
southerncalifornialawreview.com/2024/05/14/t...
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To be fair, they did report that Trump wore a magenta tie. 😉
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U.S. prints $.
Why would it have to borrow $?
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It did indeed snark itself.
"In the summer of 2008 .. I stated that 'the state of macroeconomics is good. ... [W]e, as a profession, had missed
the complexity and importance of the financial system.
But "we should stop self-flagellating and not accept flagellation from others."
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The U.S. gov't, like all sovereigns that issue fiat money, prints money to pay all its bills. No need to "borrow" $ it creates from thin air. Treasuries/paying interest on bank reserves keeps rates from going to zero. Dalio doesn't get this.
www.levyinstitute.org/publications...
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“We can always print money” to pay any debt.--Alan Greenspan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vi...
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"Who can we get to source this story?"
"Call Dean Phillips."
😬
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What MMT guy ever said that?
MMT says sovereign fiat currencies come from computer keystrokes. No inherent value whatsoever.
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Even Trump gets it.
stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/the-us-nee...
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Gov't creates the $ it spends. No debt needed. It would be nice to hear more alternative views on where the money comes from.
Alan Greenspan explained this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6vi...
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Just call The Current and ProPublica when work requirements screw up. What's the problem? 😉
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Moody's is wrong. U.S. Gov't creates $. No borrowing needed.
Alan Greenspan explains:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0i0...
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"[NYT source]does not provide any evidence that Ms. Rachel is funded by Hamas ... The reporter's manufactured conflict primarily hinges on some Zionist crackpot with a Twitter account [who] receives the benefit of anonymity as well as a helpful ally."
How does the NYT wave this story thru??
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Barnes pulled over for a toll violation. Starts to pull away. Gets killed. 😬
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Great read. Thanks Rohan.
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"channels profits directly to the Trump family ... Trump’s crypto ventures have offered a new avenue for these overseas buyers to support him financially."
Hmm. Illegal? Corrupt? A kleptocracy in the making?
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He tried. He really did. Maybe didn't make it past the eds?
"(graph 3) channels profits directly to the Trump family ... (graph 20) Trump’s crypto ventures have offered a new avenue for these overseas buyers to support him financially."
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Always worry about Senators from NY.
Wall St./banks own 'em.
Now crypto.
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I get why the NYT didn't call it fraud.
But they completely ignored the emoluments clause.
They had the shot. Wouldn't take it.
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Any Dem leaders in a position to warn foreign gov'ts about consequences when Trump is out?
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Fried chicken is pretty good by itself.
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www.factcheck.org/2024/10/harr...
www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/15/h...
www.factcheck.org/2024/10/harr...
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NPR reporter: Republicans are attacking trans people, with athlete and surgery bans for prisoners.
NPR ed.: A legit issue?
Rep: 20 trans surgeries in CA prisons (2002), a few in other states, one fed. Five in h.s. sports, 100 in college. It's just for outrage.
NPR ed. Smart. Let's horserace it.
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Full disclosure: The U.S. gov't financially supports NPR.
Hence, it must be left unsaid that REPUBLICANS have, for decades, tried to kill the USPS.
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Hey @npr.org:
1) Holmes' tech wasn't "faulty." It was fraudulent.
2) How does this story run, based on two unnamed sources hyping Holmes' partner's startup??