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time frame? do we have to wait 25 years until the "plan" pans out

A large number of the people who have worked very closely with him have concluded he is an idiot.

define "works" and "doesn't work"

We have to take what silver linings we can find Here's another one: with the plunge in crude oil prices gasoline prices will soon start falling.

you and others make a persuasive case he is a retarded moron liberal not so much

one out of two

If I understand the conspiracy theory correctly the initial numbers were being inflated to make Biden look good. I'm not sure what the corollary is now that Trump is president.

I think the intellectual mistake is as much jobism as tariffs. By jobism I mean the idea that the economy/society benefits by holding on to a particular job or type of job. The focus should be on the skills and productivity of our people. In a dynamic economy jobs are always coming and going...

The big issue is over half the voters voted for a clueless clown who tried to convince them that dark-skinned immigrants were eating their cats. I'm not too sympathetic to the folks who were ok with all of this suddenly getting agitated cuz their 401k's took a hit.

Looking at a longer time frame (2024 over 2014). The top 10 for per capita income growth are: Utah, Oregon, California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Maine, Colorado, Florida (the concentration of western states on this list is striking) The bottom 10 are: Nebraska, Maryland, Kansas...

The 2024 data on state GDP and personal income came in recently. Growth rates of per capital personal income from 2023 to 2024: Top 10 1. California (5.9%) 2. Alaska (5.5) 3. Hawaii (5.5) 4. North Carolina (5.2) 5. New York (5.0) 6. New Hampshire (5.0) 7. Maine (4.9) 8. South Carolina (4.9)...

when good policy gets trumped by ignorance and fear-mongering

It made us a lot of money? Who is this "us." Most of the tariffs Biden left in place was to help a small number of people connected to the steel industry. In return, the rest of us had to pay higher prices for every product that had steel as an input. It was a massive price tag to benefit...

Yes. Joe wanted Pennsylvania's electoral votes too.

this is your big chance to step into the void