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Sep 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Only 5 states have lower death rates than Germany, Maine, VT, WY, Hawaii, and Alaska. (3 Blue and 2 Red)
This will be waaay over Donnie Boy's head, but the reason states like NY, MA, and IL have high death rates is because they lots of international travel and Trump did nothing to prevent people from Europe from coming here and spreading the pandemic in February.
It is also important that the people in MN, WI, MI, NV, PA, and NC know that Donald Trump doesn't give a damn that they die.
Since some of the Trumpers don't like me comparing his track record with that of Angela Merkel's, red states like Florida and Texas have more than 30 times the death rate of Japan and 50 times the rate in South Korea. Trump has done a good job like the captain of the Titanic.

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Apr 8
I haven't seen anyone point this out, but there was an important reason Canada was not on the list of countries subject to "reciprocal tariffs."
The calculated rate for each country's tariff depends on its trade surplus with the U.S. divided by its exports to the U.S.
Trump keeps saying Canada has a $200 billion trade surplus with the U.S. The surplus is actually close to $60 billion census.gov/foreign-trade/…
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Nov 26, 2024
Quick take on Trump's taxes on imports from Mexico and Canada. Trump, or at least someone with his ear, knows that his tax increases would be hugely unpopular, people are not anxious to pay higher prices for everything.
This means that Trump does not actually want his import taxes on goods from Canada and Mexico to take effect.
Instead, he is looking to make a deal (you know Trump, the expert dealmaker), where Trudeau and Sheinbaum pledge to crack down on fentanyl and migrants, kind of like they are already doing.
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Nov 16, 2024
Since I seem to have some MAGA friends here who are upset because I am blaming Trump for the fact that mortgage interest rates have risen since his victory looked likely, let me give a quick economics lesson.
Suppose that people investing in the Treasury bond market have been listening to Trump promises about big increases in import taxes (tariffs) and mass deportations. (Mortgage rates track the 10-yr Treasury bond.)
If they think these policies will be inflationary (almost all do), then they would expect that inflation and interest rates will be higher after Trump puts them in place.
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Nov 11, 2024
If the media just used the phrase people understand "tax on imports," no one would have to look up the word "tariff," and the media could take some pride in actually conveying information in their reporting
Reporters really do not seem to feel any responsibility toward informing their audiences. I have argued for decades that is pointless to just write the billions of hundreds of billions that the government spends in various areas, because no one has any idea what they mean.
They could put these really big numbers in some context by, for example, expressing them as a share of the total budget. It would take ten seconds.
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Nov 8, 2024
I hate to put a lot of highly paid pundits out of business, but look at this f**king graph
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If the point here is not obvious, if we can't get people to know the most basic facts about the economy and the other issues they consider most important, how do we think we will get them to hear our great messages?
Obviously, the causation goes both ways, Trumpers don't want to hear that unemployment is near a half-century low and crime is down, but that doesn't change the problem.
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Nov 5, 2024
@GregTSargent Good piece and good to see, but it was only because of outrageously awful economic reporting that Trump ever had an edge on the economy.
@GregTSargent The media kept pushing the complaint that "prices haven't gone back down." Every reporter knows that when wages have risen by 23 percent, prices CAN'T go back down. It's like wishing that we would grow younger.
@GregTSargent Nonetheless, reporter after reporter went with this complaint as though it was grounded in reality.
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