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The President Asks a Good Macroeconomics Question
But he asks it at 3AM, and asks General Flynn.
Coretta Scott King’s Letter Opposing Sessions’s 1986 Federal Nomination
Since the Senate Majority Leader has closed down “the greatest deliberative body in the world” by invoking Rule XIX against Senator Elizabeth Warren, I take the opportunity to share what Mitch McConnell was so afraid to have heard.
A quote:
“Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts.”
Paying for the Wall/Fence: Tariff Edition
Tax reform (DBCFT) will not pay for the wall. A remittances tax will not yield sufficient revenues, except perhaps over many years. What about a tariff?
Quantifying Economic Policy Uncertainty since November
Economic policy uncertainty as measured by the Baker, Bloom, Davis news-based index is definitely higher than pre-election.
MacParity Defined Undervaluations: 3.7%, 8.5%, 50.2%
Those are estimated amounts of currency undervaluation, using the Big Mac index and the Penn Effect as of July 2016. Guess which currency is 3.7%, and which currency is 50.2%.
Paying for the Wall/Fence: Capital Controls Edition
Can we fund the partly see-through wall by taxing worker remittances?
Our President
On the occasion of Black History Month [1]:
“Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
’nuff said.
What Does Corporate Tax Reform and Paying for the Wall Have to Do with Each Other?
Maybe something, maybe nothing.
“Deportability”
From Draft Executive Order dated 1/23/2017:
…DHS and State Department to establish new standards and regulations for determining when aliens will become subject to the “public charge” grounds of inadmissibility and deportability (i.e., their likelihood of requiring public assistance after being admitted into the United States);