Good points @Stalingrad_Poor
People forget just how awful the Bush Administration was. Image
It was during the Bush Admin that the GOP ruptured. Nothing "conservative" about trashing the Constitution after 9/11, or invading Iraq.

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"There's no strategy or sense to what we do...we default to 'let's call in airstrikes on somebody.'

That's a tool.

What's your plan? What is your strategy? What are your principles? How did we get here?

We're in chaos, we're adrift."

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A perfect issue for common ground, left & right.

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#IMF #WorldBank

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Like most of you, I have the House Financial Services subcommittee hearing on climate-related financial risks and monetary policy on in the background right now.

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Brad Sherman making sense at this moment. What is going on?
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This is disgraceful.

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Incredible.

Post-Q3 2019, after the Fed restarted QE, the Share of Checkable Deposits & Currency Held by the TOP 0.1% jumped from 5% to 13.9%, while the 50th-90th % share fell from 36.2% to 26.6%!
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