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Malcolm Rutherford

H-index: 27
Economics 68%
Political science 16%
captmal.bsky.social
Since when can an EO take away a clearly specified constitutional right? Can the next Democratic President pass an EO eliminating gun rights?
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Carney should strongly condemn the unprovoked attack on Iran. Unjustified by US intelligence, Trump got conned by Bibi. Again!
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So Trump abandoned the G7 to plant a couple of flagpoles.
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Tod is the most boring military parade I have ever seen. Troops shambling by and then a single tank followed at a distance by another tank. Wonder who was in charge of that.
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Sloppiest marching I have ever seen. How about a little snap?
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Can’t wait for Trumps big beautiful pile of s**t to hit the fan. Which possible catastrophe do you think will happen first?
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Why can’t news outlets get the difference between the deficit (annual) and the debt (total) into their heads. It’s not that hard.

#econsky
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I stopped posting in advance of a trip to the US. But that got canceled so now I am back.
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If you want to set the rules it would be good if you or someone in your administration knew a bit of international trade economics instead of this sh*t Navarro is peddling.
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Lesotho began making and exporting jeans to the US as a direct result of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (2000) that took duties off certain imports from Africa. Now Lesotho faces 50% tariffs! Nothing like consistent decision making!
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Maybe they should raise their own food standards to those of Europe and Canada. Firing all the food safety people doesn’t help either.
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That’s what I plan. I also have a nexus card.
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So every grant from a government agency has to “support the president’s agenda”? No other criteria allowed?
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Oops. I’m supposed to go to U of Richmond for the HES conference in late June to give a paper on the first generation of African American PhDs in Economics. Wondering if I should go. My topic is kind of DEI!
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james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
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You know it’s quite hard for governments to make things better quickly, but easy for them to make things worse real fast.
#econsky
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And as a savings vehicle it is subject to a lot of sudden variation. So one with a substantial amount of risk compared to others.
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As a speculative asset it is not a substitute for money or something that is ever going to be popular for making regular transactions. Gold or stocks and shares are not money substitutes and neither is bitcoin.
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To be viable a stand alone Canadian car industry would have to export a lot of cars!
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I wish Canadian 🇨🇦 politicians would stop talking about tax cuts and start talking about investing in infrastructure.
#canada
#econsky
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It’s a little more than a side effect—it’s a direct consequence of the massive consumption of fossil fuel.
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He should be explicit about what “aggressive incursions” have occurred in Greenland. Canada and Denmark are aware the strategic situation in the Arctic is changing . . . Thanks to human caused CLIMATE CHANGE.
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Who runs on stage waving a chain saw to celebrate making thousands of people unemployed?

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