Alan
Alan
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Economist and sci-fi fan.
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In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
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lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight
Well yes, there is that.

But do have some sympathy for the credulous. It is entirely normal for people to insist "surely they do not just keep lying about everything every day", because we learn to shun people like that in real life.
Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."
You seem to ignore the implied tax burden of the BBB's massive deficits. You or you kids will be paying that. But the short-run lower taxes are meant to buy your loyalty to ostentatious plutocratic gluttony.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump says he doesn't care about a national debt explosion because ‘I won't be here’
Aides reportedly reveal president does not see tackling ballooning $21.8 trillion debt as ‘crucial’ to his legacy
www.independent.co.uk
RN we have well-to-do politicians and citizens in right places to make the right calls to help the top 0.1% succeed.

So the GOP's BBB made permanent the massive tax cuts for billionaires but they would rather shut down gvt than make permanent the healthcare premium subsidies for the working class.
The proposal that Trump cares even a whit about competence has zero credibility.
CNN: "Do you wake up worried that you and your family could go hungry?"

SNAP recipient Shari Jablonowski: "Yes. I can't afford all the bills in this house... I'm just totally screwed. I don't know else to put it."
#wealth #inequality #economy

Trends in the Distribution of Family Wealth 1989-2022
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Wealth concentrations:
Top 1% : 23 > 27%
1% - 10% : 33% > 42%
Top 10% : 56 > 69%
Bottom 90% : 37 > 33%
Bottom 50% : 6%

www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Gee I wonder what the Department of Labor is trying to communicate?
It is all too easy to read what you are saying as "don't worry what people think about your actual positions, just produce better propaganda like 'they' do."

That will fail.

Of course the right-wing media strategies are important. But clearly out-of-touch Dem activists have made it easy for them.
Useful fool or paid agent? Hard to know.
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
Yes. Even so, rent freezes are bad (counterproductive) policy. Strongly encouraging more building is what is needed.
I like this paper by Gillingham, Kotchen, Levinsohn, and Nalebuff: www.nber.org/papers/w34413

Two main points. 1. Musk's shenanigans hurt Tesla, but increased demand for other EVs, which is a good thing in the long term. 2. It has material implications for Net Zero policies in the short term.
Assertion works better than a query in such circumstances.
Bitcoin has one sustainable fundamental: demand for concealable illegal transactions.

On top of that, there is just speculative froth, good until it's not.

Bitcoin is doomed. Retirement savings will vanish. Retirees will weep.