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Trump's latest: forcing people to pay debts they don't owe. If you're not super rich and think Donald is on your side, what more do you need to know to realize you were conned? Below from the National Consumer Law Center;

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We answer all those econ questions you’ve been wondering about tomorrow (Tues) at noon at the Contrarian. Who’s we? Me and…wait for it…Heather Long! She brings the optimal combination of knowledge, experience, and common sense.

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We've got Coffee with the Contrarians—now, let's do lunch with economist @jaredb-econ.bsky.social every Tuesday at 12pm ET Submit questions for Jared to [email protected] & tune in on Substack! contrarian.substack.com

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World's Biggest Pension Funds have halted their investments in the U.S. until the country stabilizes 🚨

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U.S. Companies are declaring bankruptcy at the fastest pace in 15 years (the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis) 🚨🚨

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Warren Buffett is sitting on enough cash to buy 476 companies in the S&P 500 👀

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JUST IN 🚨: S&P 500 forms Death Cross ☠️ for the first time since March 2022

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Harvard FTW. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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The Silencer. deadline.com/2025/04/trum...

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Wouldn't it be nice if every news outlet that covered the Bukele Oval Office meeting noted: District court wrote: Abrego Garcia "has never been charged with or convicted of any crime."⤵️ Fourth Circuit: The government presented "NO EVIDENCE" of MS-13 affiliation. Abandoned argument before court. ⤵️

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Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

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UPDATED: We're (Way) Past the Tipping Point open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Strong arming: Federal officials said they would freeze $2.2 billion in multiyear grants to Harvard, along with a $60 million contract. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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Trump's tariffs made it hard for American manufacturing firms to import critical minerals, so China responded by making it harder.

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The only way to create lasting change is to bring people along, and create a broad coalition. Trump hasn't bothered to do this hard work, and folks believe tariffs will hurt more than they'll help and this is particularly true when thinking of their own situation (today.yougov.com/politics/art... )

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"And so what you have is companies all around the country and around the world having to literally rewrite their business plans day by day, and sometimes several times in the course of a day. "

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Terrific public finance exam question: Is it more efficient to put tariffs on an industry -- effectively forcing U.S. consumers to subsidize it, while also distorting the price signal -- than to subsidize it directly using taxpayer funds?

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In most economic eras, I don't need to begin my commentary with "If the clown show continues..." But here we are.

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Bookmarking this valuable tracker on student visa revocations, from @insidehighered.com As of right now, IHE database shows that more than 1,000 international students & recent graduates have had their legal status changed by State Dept. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

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Note to fellow journos: If only one "economist" agrees w Trump tariffs—as evidenced by fact that this particular "economist" is now being interviewed and cited everywhere as only "expert" willing to publicly defend them—consider confirming that he's actually an "economist." Check CVs, for example.

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Here's one of the many clarifying passages in the White House (notionally GSA) letter. It demands Harvard set up a system of political commissars who will enforce hiring and admissions set asides for MAGA luminaries and high school red hats.

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No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

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bookmark this chyron

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Independent of Hassett's abysmal forecasting record thus far (Dow 36,000 etc), why would anyone ever make a prediction of 100% chance of recession? Even without the trade wars, average annual chance of recession is ~15%

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wow if only somebody had thought to sign free trade agreements with South Korea and Australia before Donald J Trump

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lol Commerce posted today that they’re looking into tariffs on the machinery used to make semiconductors This will just make it harder to make semiconductors in the US. It is so unbelievably stupid that I cannot put it into words.

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JUST IN: A federal judge has halted Trump administration’s early termination of programs that admitted hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans into the United States. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Nothing in federal privacy law precludes a university from denouncing the Gestapo-reminiscent arrest, detention, and deportation of students whose only offense was exercising their First Amendment rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

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Law enforcement wearing masks, again, even as one of the Trump administration conditions for universities is that no-one can wear a mask that disrupts their surveillance.

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Cornell, MIT, CalTech, Princeton, Michigan and the U of R joined in on this one It challenges the DOE indirect rate cap under the APA, among other arguments Filed today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

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"The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law, a memo obtained by Mississippi Today shows. "One of the now deleted collections focused on 'race relations' and the other on 'gender studies'...” mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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"In addition to the check delays, Mayes said her office has received complaints about other Social Security disruptions..." ktar.com/arizona-news...

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"It was eight last week, 50 now," said Hayden Nguyen, the co-chair of SJP at ASU and a sophomore studying business policy and management. "We don't know where it's going to be next week, and we need to build a really strong movement." www.statepress.com/article/2025...

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Paying an extortionist -- where do you think it ends? Do you think he honors his side of the supposed "deal"? Really? Meanwhile, as Big Law ill-advisedly pays the protection racket, there's a huge need for lawyers to help regular people Trump is illegally targeting: www.cm-life.com/article/2025...

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"Our parents are actively fighting for our country for us to be able to have these rights..." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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