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The Economic Recovery That Isn’t

Don’t believe the story that Trump will tell at the Republican convention. Originally published in the New York Times As Republicans take the virtual stage for their convention this week, expect to hear much chest pounding about how great the economy has been under Donald Trump’s leadership and how fast it is coming back from […]

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Save the Fed

Judy Shelton, Trump’s latest unqualified and dangerous nominee to the Federal Reserve Board, must be rejected. Originally published in the New York Times Having failed in past attempts to put unqualified ideologues on the Federal Reserve Board, President Trump is giving it another try — and is closer to victory than previously. The nominee in […]

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The Mystery of High Stock Prices

Why is the market doing so well when the economy is doing so poorly? Originally published in the New York Times From the Department of Curiosities: On Tuesday, as the number of new coronavirus cases continued to spike to record levels, the stock market closed out its strongest quarter in more than two decades. That […]

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The New York Times: Biden’s Get-Tough-on-China Tariffs May Backfire

The tide of globalization is receding, at least from American shores. Two successive presidents have...

The New York Times: What Trump Would Do To Our Economy

Originally published in The New York Times. Much to fear about another Donald Trump presidency: ...

The New York Times: America’s Broken Immigration System, In One Chart

The immigration problem Congress faces is large and complex. Let’s break it down. Between Octob...

More than Words: 10 Charts That Defined 2023

Some years are defined by a single event or person — a pandemic, a recession, an insurrection — ...

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