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New York Times: Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back

  For more than 60 years, my family owned a small paint factory in Long Island City, Queens, in the shadow of the neon Pepsi-Cola sign just across the East River from Manhattan. That factory and the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant are long gone — two of the hundreds of industrial facilities that once existed throughout […]

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New York Times: Trump’s Biggest Beneficiary: Himself

No presidential administration is completely free from questionable ethics practices, but Donald Trump has pushed us to a new low. He has accomplished that by breaking every norm of good government, often while enriching himself, whether by pardoning a felon who, together with his wife, donated $1.8 million to the Trump campaign; promoting Teslas on […]

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New York Times: ‘Few of Us Ever Imagined He Would Go This Far’

In the past, the one constituency President Trump has sometimes listened to has been our stock market. Well, it has spoken, falling 10.5 percent in one of the largest two-day stock market swoons in decades. In the 50 years I have been immersed in markets and economic policy, I have never before witnessed a signature […]

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