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David Roth memorably described the job of neoliberal economists as finding "new ways to say 'actually, your boss is right.'" Not just bosses: economists are a bulwark against obvious answers to our worst agonies: wages, education, health and shelter:

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How can we solve the student debt crisis? Well, we could cancel student debt and regulate the price of education, either directly or through free state college.

How can we solve America's heath-debt crisis? We could cancel health debt and create #MedicareForAll.

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Admins for 40+ yrs have declined to invoke #BayhDole's #MarchInRights to control prices. Reps DeFazio and Doggett's proposal is one of many deliberate misinterpretations seeking #PriceControls.

Not once has a federal agency found these proposals to be legally permissible. #ampFW
⚠️ Using #MarchInRights to regulate prices would have a chilling effect on drug development and on other innovative sectors.

@RepKenBuck @RepTiffany @BurgessOwens @RepDanBishop @replouiegohmert @RepSpartz

#Xtandi #PriceControls #BayhDole #BayhDoleAct #ampFW Image
⚠️ If the govt can revoke firms' intellectual property rights outside of what the statute allows, private companies will never be able to fund for research to create new drugs, tech. Innovation would grind to a halt. American taxpayers would see their grant dollars wasted. #ampFW Image
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$6 Gas is here already?

Still super cheap….this is nothing… stock up.

#ESG + #FedClimateStressTests + #AltLeft #PriceControls are coming.

That’s a lethal combo to send Gasoline Prices to levels we perhaps haven’t seen in Decades. $XOM gonna be lit. 🚀
The good news 4Banks is that the #AltLeft BBB Green economic agenda puts a Nasty Secular overlay on Inflation, that’s like adding Kerosene on one of the biggest Cyclical Recoveries since WWII… So when Consumer Savings get drawn $XLF Cards will be ready to Finance Deficit = NII🚀 ImageImage
UK’s Bulb files for Chapter 11 (Insolvency)…at some point the bulb should switch on for the #AltLeft #GreatReset Stepping back a bit.. Wind & Solar likely never commercially viable.. adds to Public Debt & Subtracts from Consumer Savings.. As for Bulb, thx Germany! #EnergyCrisis
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