Profile avatar
sholloway.bsky.social
55 posts 15 followers 22 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
Posts 39 Comments 11

Nonsense

submitted 3 hours ago • 15 comments

I wonder how many folks are going to end up ruined financially because their infobubble is reassuring them that the markets will be skyrocketing and prices dropping Any Day Now. Not that those of us in contact with reality will be MUCH better off.

submitted 6 hours ago • 17 comments

Well, JPMorgan’s chief economist Bruce Kasman certainly sounds cheery.

submitted 3 hours ago • 29 comments

Ahem

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

It’s intentional

submitted 4 hours ago • 32 comments

Unreal. Such a self inflicted wound. A generational mistake

submitted 7 hours ago • 31 comments

Almost 30 years ago, in "Life as We Know It," I described Gingrich Republicans as people who would kick the crutches out from under Tiny Tim. Jack Fowler of the National Review, a high school classmate of mine, wrote to me to object. And now here we are.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

Austerity is next…

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I tried to figure out what exactly the new China tariff was last night. The White House wasn’t sure, and then told me it was a “pointless aside” to write about that. (It’s 79%)

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

Self inflicted

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

Don’t put them on. They lie to you. Not a hard decision.

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

I get a lot of economic research and I really can't find any defense of Trump on trade. Some are just cautious against the hope things get dialed back, one report this a.m. was like hey, this is just how Trump rolls. But no credible support for tariffs this extreme.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Important article, important thread from @abenewman.bsky.social & @himself.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 21 hours ago • 741 comments

Can’t. Because it doesn’t

submitted 11 hours ago • 25 comments

Also, the Secretary of Commerce doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

submitted 10 hours ago • 17 comments

It’s worse.

submitted 10 hours ago • 50 comments

Gosh if only Congress had thought of this before…

submitted 9 hours ago • 42 comments

History. Wrong side of.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

Harris Faulkner's Fox News show has been on for 20 minutes now. She has not mentioned tariffs or stocks once and a stock ticker isn't being displayed. Strong state media vibes.

submitted 9 hours ago • 936 comments

Thread: How deep is Fox News burying the stock market tumble after Trump's tariffs? Here's the lead story 1/

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

A few things to note about the depreciation of the US dollar index in response to the US tariff announcement It's consistent with what has been a pronounced market reassessment of US growth and, with that, falling US yields and expectations of larger Federal Reserve rate cuts (as well as lower net..

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

10 rules for dealing with Trump’s demands for capitulation open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Pure delusion, and a straight out lie: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/t...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

1/ Congress passed income tax amendment in 1909. Why? -Wealth & inequality had exploded -Tariffs and excise taxes were deeply unfair & regressive -Govt was growing b/c it was doing new things like keeping food safe

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

Happy Stove Touching Day to all who celebrate 😬🤦‍♂️

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This, times For The Love of Pete

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

For G-D’s sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

The message is a lie. FFS

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

I call this The DOGE Paradox.

submitted 5 days ago • 153 comments

No Economic shock, same

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

As judges take a closer look at how DOGE is operating, and what authority it exercises across the federal bureaucracy, among the many questions they’re asking is whether DOGE is actually a government agency itself. The answer to that question could have major ramifications: cnn.it/42oreXt

submitted 4 days ago • 84 comments

JFC. You don’t need a damn expert to tell you this.

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

They need to “fall in line” less and leak more. Come on. Learn how to do it securely, and then do it.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Just in NIH grants, It looks like beautiful Iowa City, home of the U of Iowa, will lose $71m in funding. That's almost $1k per resident. And that's before all the other cuts to SSA, FDA, etc. Anyone in Iowa City that can offer more insight? scienceimpacts.org H/T to Prathima !

submitted 5 days ago • 946 comments

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

submitted 5 days ago • 912 comments

Trump never had any plan to bring down grocery prices and help working families.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

@inequalitymedia.bsky.social , I’m pretty sure this translates into hurting the most amount of people and three large companies that produce more cars than the one company that has the least amount of workers who will benefit, and it produces the least number of cars🤔 www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/t...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments