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RT @NatashaBertrand: New CNN reporting: The Trump admin has discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civili…
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Former DOGE engineer says federal government has fewer people sitting around than silicon valley does npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-541…
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2 May 2025
It is 5:20 on a Friday evening. Heavy duty construction going on 10 feet from our patio where people are trying to dine. Seriously, WTF is wrong with this city. Businesses will continue to leave @PoPville @UptownMainSt @RAMWdc @CMLewisGeorgeW4 @DDOTDC @MayorBowser
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23 Apr 2025
In the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60% industry wide. 🧵
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21 Apr 2025
Stocks down, yields up, dollar down, again! Great news, if you hate yourself and everyone else
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15 Apr 2025
Google is now leading on multiple fronts on AI metrics.
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14 Apr 2025
Trump says ‘home-grown’ Americans are next to go to El Salvador, tells Bukele ‘gotta build about five more places’ trib.al/Ti1eOJx
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13 Apr 2025
Yes, due process is not just an innovation for fairness. It's a clever system for accuracy in the face of human bias, self-deception, and overconfidence.
13 Apr 2025
If anyone is wondering why we need that boring-sounding thing called "due process," it's because if you don't have it you're depending entirely on the word of the guy on the left.
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12 Apr 2025
If you were running a secret strategy to undermine American manufacturing, exempting popular finished consumer goods from tariffs and keeping them in place for intermediate goods, capital goods and raw materials would be a good way to go about it.
12 Apr 2025
As a result of tariffs, Fastenal put in 3-4% price increases and intends to double that in 2H as new tariffs hit. So for companies that actually manufacture in the US, costs of mission critical fasteners and parts is going up dramatically while consumer electronics are exempted.
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12 Apr 2025
So the strategy all along was to bring back labor intensive manufacture of underwear and shoes but not iPhones and semiconductors. Brilliant.
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12 Apr 2025
Smart move from the administration here 👇. They could go even further by exempting all products used by American consumers and businesses, to put the full squeeze of the tariffs firmly on China.
12 Apr 2025
BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs in win for Apple (and shoppers). This lowers the China tariff from 125%. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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12 Apr 2025
Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that business demands.
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Paul Fain retweeted
6 Apr 2025
Yes: If you wanted to reindustrialize the U.S. without making extreme claims about job gains and while fending off China to enable U.S. tech growth your path forward would look a lot like the CHIPS and Science Act.
@RonBrownstein @EJDionne @MattHourihan @paulkrugman
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3 Apr 2025
Well, JPMorgan’s chief economist Bruce Kasman certainly sounds cheery.
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3 Apr 2025
Top economic advisers to Trump (Bessent in his confirmation hearing, Miran in his Nov 2024 paper) have said that tariffs need not raise consumer prices so long as the dollar appreciates, as it did in 2018-19.
The dollar has gone the other way.
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4 Apr 2025
The @FT, not mincing words on.ft.com/4j9VB9y
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3 Apr 2025
US in 2022: here is a 25% tax credit for building semiconductor factories
US in 2025: here are 20-26% tariffs on the countries that make tools needed in semiconductor factories
(Tariffs exempt chips themselves but make no mention of chip manufacturing equipment)
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3 Apr 2025
The Dollar isn't just falling after yesterday's tariff announcement. It's collapsing. Tariffs are a forced devaluation of the currency, a way to claw back competitiveness from others. So the fact that the Dollar is falling on top of that is totally counterintuitive and worrying.
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