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    Economics Thread

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    Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread

    If only Trump spent more time firing off NFL takes and less time on the economy, we might get this thing turned in the right direction.
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    Economics Thread

    https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/ Q: We’d love to come back to immigration but maybe start with the economy. Obviously an issue you campaigned on as well. You promised that you would immediately bring down prices and usher in a golden age of America. The prices of...
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    119th Congress or Red Wave In Adult Land

    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/congress-can-stop-the-tariff-madness-next-week/ Next week, Congress will have another chance to reassert its constitutional authority over tariffs. Paul and Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) have introduced a joint resolution that’s one sentence long. All it does is...
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    Economics Thread

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    Student loans

    https://reason.com/2025/04/23/trump-administration-to-restart-collections-on-defaulted-student-loans/ On April 21, the Department of Education announced that it would resume collections on defaulted federal student loans, making a clear break from student loan policy under President Joe Biden...
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    School Choice II

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/23/trump-administration-education-department/ Today, there are widespread laments about the diminishment, perhaps to extinction, of the Education Department, although the lamenters cannot connect it with educational improvements since its founding...
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    Economics Thread

    https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/reinventing-the-trade-deal-wheel-only-much-worse/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Reinventing%20the%20Trade%20Deal%20Wheel%2C%20Only%20Much%20Worse&utm_campaign=Capitolism_Paid%20Subscribers%20Only_Reinventing%20the%20Trade%20De...
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    Economics Thread

    Folks who considered themselves “fiscal conservatives” used to believe uncertainty was bad for the economy. Now, not so much.
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    Economics Thread

    He’s been in office 94 days and China’s tariff rate has already changed 5 times. But there’s a plan…
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    DOGE

    Good concept, terrible execution. Probably poisoned the “let’s cut government” well, which is the biggest shame.
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    Things They Say

    “If the Dow drops 1000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!” - Donald Trump
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    Economics Thread

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    Economics Thread

    For example - those who think Europe’s VAT tax has a negative impact on America’s trade.
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    Economics Thread

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    Legal/scotus thread

    https://jeffjacoby.com/28486/no-tariffs-without-representation But what about his predecessors? How often did they use the IEEPA to raise and lower tariffs? Not once. In the nearly half-century since President Jimmy Carter signed that statute, no president ever invoked it to impose tariffs —...
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    Economics Thread

    C’mon Japan, we want you to stop “ripping us off,” solve China’s human rights abuses, make Europe pay for its own defense, halt fentanyl trafficking at the Canadian border, contribute to our sovereign wealth fund, and buy us Greenland as an apology for even making us ask. There’s no plan.
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    TRHLIM

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    Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread

    It’s your system, not mine: “The people who have power decide. Just like what was done during the autopen regime. As has been the case since the beginning of time. The people will speak as to how correctly that power has been applied.” If Trump stripped citizens of their rights and then...
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