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Investing In Venezuela Oil Is A Bad Business Case
YouTube video by Mr Global
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January 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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"We have a split economy."
New data is offering mixed messages on the state of the U.S. economy. Ron Insana and @justinwolfers.bsky.social discuss on the #11thHour.
New data is offering mixed messages on the state of the U.S. economy. Ron Insana and @justinwolfers.bsky.social discuss on the #11thHour.
December 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"We have a split economy."
New data is offering mixed messages on the state of the U.S. economy. Ron Insana and @justinwolfers.bsky.social discuss on the #11thHour.
New data is offering mixed messages on the state of the U.S. economy. Ron Insana and @justinwolfers.bsky.social discuss on the #11thHour.
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“Look around you. Read a newspaper. Watch TV. It’s chaos over here.”
My guess is that sentence is more relevant to our economic future than a single GDP print.
youtu.be/HdgUPqNumDs?...
My guess is that sentence is more relevant to our economic future than a single GDP print.
youtu.be/HdgUPqNumDs?...
GDP Is Up, Jobs Are Stalling: What’s Really Going On, According to Justin Wolfers
How can GDP be up, jobs be stalling, and consumer confidence at rock bottom—all at the same time?
In this interview, economist Justin Wolfers breaks down the latest GDP report—and explains why one…
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December 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“Look around you. Read a newspaper. Watch TV. It’s chaos over here.”
My guess is that sentence is more relevant to our economic future than a single GDP print.
youtu.be/HdgUPqNumDs?...
My guess is that sentence is more relevant to our economic future than a single GDP print.
youtu.be/HdgUPqNumDs?...
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Economic data is a noisy group chat: jobs, GDP, income, prices all talking at once. Each message can mislead if you take it literally. The real task is finding the common story they’re telling together, not falling in love with one statistic.
December 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Economic data is a noisy group chat: jobs, GDP, income, prices all talking at once. Each message can mislead if you take it literally. The real task is finding the common story they’re telling together, not falling in love with one statistic.
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.Chatgpt here explains how
LUTNICK IS WRONG
So this, THIS is the person representing my country on his six or seven recent trips, negociating in Russia?
No wonder that in Russia, certain people at the top in our present administration are referred to as "useful idiots".
No wonder!
.
LUTNICK IS WRONG
So this, THIS is the person representing my country on his six or seven recent trips, negociating in Russia?
No wonder that in Russia, certain people at the top in our present administration are referred to as "useful idiots".
No wonder!
.
December 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
.Chatgpt here explains how
LUTNICK IS WRONG
So this, THIS is the person representing my country on his six or seven recent trips, negociating in Russia?
No wonder that in Russia, certain people at the top in our present administration are referred to as "useful idiots".
No wonder!
.
LUTNICK IS WRONG
So this, THIS is the person representing my country on his six or seven recent trips, negociating in Russia?
No wonder that in Russia, certain people at the top in our present administration are referred to as "useful idiots".
No wonder!
.
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Why is the independence of the Fed so important? Former Fed chairs Ben Bernanke & Janet Yellen answer in a short @brookings.edu video. youtu.be/xeIAlIEzlI8?...
The Independence of the Federal Reserve: Why It Matters
YouTube video by Brookings Institution
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December 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Why is the independence of the Fed so important? Former Fed chairs Ben Bernanke & Janet Yellen answer in a short @brookings.edu video. youtu.be/xeIAlIEzlI8?...
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"If I'm sounding more worried to you than I've sounded in months, it's because I am."
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
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Justin Wolfers: These Jobs Numbers Look Like the Start of an Economic Slump
What happens when job growth nearly flatlines, unemployment rises, and the Fed starts quietly worrying about recession?
Economist Justin Wolfers breaks down a tricky but pivotal US jobs report that…
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December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"If I'm sounding more worried to you than I've sounded in months, it's because I am."
youtu.be/Ah2xMufLbS8
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It's that time again.
For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related Qs in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only & NOT medical advice. Can't believe it's the last one of the year.
#AskAnIDDoc December 2025 edition.
For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related Qs in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only & NOT medical advice. Can't believe it's the last one of the year.
#AskAnIDDoc December 2025 edition.
December 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It's that time again.
For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related Qs in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only & NOT medical advice. Can't believe it's the last one of the year.
#AskAnIDDoc December 2025 edition.
For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related Qs in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only & NOT medical advice. Can't believe it's the last one of the year.
#AskAnIDDoc December 2025 edition.
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So the president designates groups of unnamed and unknown people as “terrorists”, then the Secretary of Defense decides who fits under that extremely broad definition, then the US military kills them, and that’s all we are allowed to know.
December 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So the president designates groups of unnamed and unknown people as “terrorists”, then the Secretary of Defense decides who fits under that extremely broad definition, then the US military kills them, and that’s all we are allowed to know.
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“I inherited a mess.” 🤡
December 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“I inherited a mess.” 🤡
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"When the president says prices are falling, he's lying. When he says he's going to get prices down, he really shouldn't, because the only way to get prices down is to crush the economy." That’s the trade-off he’s not mentioning.
December 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"When the president says prices are falling, he's lying. When he says he's going to get prices down, he really shouldn't, because the only way to get prices down is to crush the economy." That’s the trade-off he’s not mentioning.
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Notice the pattern: help a narrow group loudly, hurt everyone else quietly. Tariffs help a few steel workers but raise prices for every firm using steel. Tax cuts favor the rich while squeezing social programs. Politically noisy wins, economically costly losses.
December 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Notice the pattern: help a narrow group loudly, hurt everyone else quietly. Tariffs help a few steel workers but raise prices for every firm using steel. Tax cuts favor the rich while squeezing social programs. Politically noisy wins, economically costly losses.
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Off the charts incompetence...
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Off the charts incompetence...
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“Tell me about India.”
Like bad reality TV. Only worse.
Like bad reality TV. Only worse.
TRUMP: Scott, India. Tell me about India. Why is India allowed to do that? They have to tariffs. Do they have an exemption on rice?
BESSENT: No sir. We're still working on their trade deal
TRUMP: They shouldn't be dumping. Give me the countries if you could. Mark it down, Scott.
BESSENT: No sir. We're still working on their trade deal
TRUMP: They shouldn't be dumping. Give me the countries if you could. Mark it down, Scott.
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“Tell me about India.”
Like bad reality TV. Only worse.
Like bad reality TV. Only worse.
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Excellent reporting by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social . The vote was once again delayed...because there is no evidence to support that voting to eliminate the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine is right or in anyway justifiable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...
Vaccine Panel Again Postpones Vote on Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Excellent reporting by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social . The vote was once again delayed...because there is no evidence to support that voting to eliminate the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine is right or in anyway justifiable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...
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Witkoff and Kushner promised their Daddy Vladdy that they wouldn’t visit Ukraine after their trip to Moscow.
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Witkoff and Kushner promised their Daddy Vladdy that they wouldn’t visit Ukraine after their trip to Moscow.
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When Mark Carney sets specific goals for Canada to "diversify away" from its reliance on the US—making headlines in Canada but not the US—hear that for what it is: Close partners and allies looking elsewhere for better friends.
This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.
This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.
November 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When Mark Carney sets specific goals for Canada to "diversify away" from its reliance on the US—making headlines in Canada but not the US—hear that for what it is: Close partners and allies looking elsewhere for better friends.
This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.
This is the silent way that the US loses its pointless trade war.
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When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.
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A key point from this interview: the "benefit" of tariffs, if it exists, is delayed. You don't flip a switch and get a plant tomorrow. You wait years. It also follows that a tariff you don’t trust to outlast a mood swing won’t change where companies build at all.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A key point from this interview: the "benefit" of tariffs, if it exists, is delayed. You don't flip a switch and get a plant tomorrow. You wait years. It also follows that a tariff you don’t trust to outlast a mood swing won’t change where companies build at all.
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Inflation isn’t all the same. When prices rise because demand is strong, firms earn more and can raise wages. With tariff-driven inflation, firms face higher costs, not higher revenues—so prices go up but paychecks don’t. Same pain, less gain.
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Inflation isn’t all the same. When prices rise because demand is strong, firms earn more and can raise wages. With tariff-driven inflation, firms face higher costs, not higher revenues—so prices go up but paychecks don’t. Same pain, less gain.
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A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
A reminder: Tariffs are a regressive tax. The anti-Robin Hood.
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
Trump's current tariff settings effectively impose a tax rate on low-income households that's roughly TRIPLE that on high-income folks. That's not the way taxes are supposed to work.
[source: budgetlab.yale.edu/research/sta...
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Reminder, just one year ago before all this chaos re-started.
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reminder, just one year ago before all this chaos re-started.
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He campaigned on cutting the cost of living, but he has governed to raise it: regressive tariffs, immigration, fiddling with the Fed, cutting renewable energy, and firing the person whose job was to measure all of this.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
He campaigned on cutting the cost of living, but he has governed to raise it: regressive tariffs, immigration, fiddling with the Fed, cutting renewable energy, and firing the person whose job was to measure all of this.