Putting a lot more money in the hands of people who would spend it would boost the economy, economists say. Duh. I am not an economist, but it has long seemed to me that if you ended student loan payments, folks could use that money to buy houses, cars, and other consumer goods. Maybe even …
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Elizabeth Warren Is Doing Something Right
Here’s my first contribution from this side of things. Let’s see if it works. So far today, two billionaires have become very upset. I took a screenshot of the Blankfein tweet because I figured that someone would tell him about the racism and he would take it down, but it’s been up for four hours …
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We Can Always Use Some Bitter, Cynical, Gallows Humor, So Here’s A Kudlow Post
Larry Kudlow is the pure distilled essence of a Trump appointment, the type specimen of the breed, and the perfect expression of the state of Republican “thinking” on not just economics, but any matter in which actual knowledge and a respect for empiricism might help. Via Wikipedia, we find he is barely educated, at best, …
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Capo di Tutti Capi
Here’s another part of the Trump interview that Joy Ann Reid highlights. Betty has covered part of this, but I think Trump’s attitude on this is important for Democratic strategy. He literally adopted a "Godfather" phraseology to all but say Democrats could have avoided blue state tax hikes via SALT if they had "come to …
Remember The Maine (Senator)!
Following up on Betty’s post below… Pursuing the Maine chance, Susan Collins is all over a small part of the map on the Senate tax-theft/heath-care-wrecking/federal-overreach/America-gutting bill. She voted in favor of the motion to proceed, but she’s now signaling that she isn’t yet a solid “yes” on final passage: Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins said …
Apropos Of Not Much
So I read the latest over at Talking Points Memo on the slow-rolling Republican “moderate” cave on the tax bill to Trump and the GOP’s I Got Mine/Tongue-Bath-A-Billionaire Caucus. That led me to a Twitter rant born of despair and rage. The TL:DR is that dominant-power decline has happened before, will happen to whoever comes …
Set Your DVRs: News Is Supposedly Going To Be Broken
May want to pop some popcorn too! On @maddow I'll break a big story about Trump and his taxes – 9PM eastern via @DCReportMedia Ill be on @lawrence, too. — David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) March 15, 2017 What we've got is from 2005… the President's 1040 form… details to come tonight 9PM ET, MSNBC. — …
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