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Banana Republicans

submitted 6 hours ago • 67 comments

A lovely tribute to the late Stan Fischer from Larry Summers, and along the way, a partial answer to the (implied) question: What does it mean to be a great economist? www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

submitted 31 minutes ago • 0 comments

Senate GOP are lying. Full stop. Not “misinformation”. Not “misleading”. It is a lie. Knowing, intentional, from Senators who are aware of the law. Undocumented *do not* receive benefits. At all. Of any kind. State or Fed. No Medicare. No Medicaid. No disability. No SS. No food assistance. Nada.

submitted 19 hours ago • 38 comments

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

submitted 4 hours ago • 189 comments

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him

submitted 6 hours ago • 108 comments

Look I know everyone's probably watching multiple meltdowns at the moment, but a Japanese company is gonna try to land on the moon this afternoon if you want a Zen break www.youtube.com/live/B682Yox...

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Smart. So much better than a golden golf club. www.businessinsider.com/3755-gold-go...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Anthropic CEO says a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation is "far too blunt an instrument" and calls for US federal transparency standards for AI companies (Dario Amodei/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

16 million.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

DELETED: Trump administration deleted a webpage summarizing evidence that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at less than half the rate of native-born U.S. citizens for violent and drug crimes and a quarter the rate of native-born citizens for property crimes.” 1/2

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If automakers end up shifting some production to China, it would amount to a remarkable outcome from a trade war initiated by President Trump with the intention of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.  www.wsj.com/business/aut...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is very bad Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

Project 2025 would like a word about steel tariffs:

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

All of the bad news headlines on the WSJ - deficit, weak jobs, automaker woes, compromised data, US bond and currency risks - are 100% self-imposed. Time for the business community to start complaining much more vociferously. www.wsj.com

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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board impressed by Ukraine's tenacity. I mean this resolve is not new. Even the Ukrainian National Anthem is titled "Ukraine has not yet perished." www.wsj.com/opinion/ukra...

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