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Remember, I began writing for the Times during the Bush years, when we first saw political exploitation of terrorism, then a war on false pretenses. Yet few were saying the obvious, and I had a prominent position. How could I not speak up? 1/
And given what we're seeing now, can anyone really say that my condemnations of the direction US conservatism was taking were way off base? I'm a citizen as well as an economist, and sometimes you just have to take a stand 2/
That said, at this point I'm actually hanging back from a lot of the Trump-bashing -- I mean, I do bash him, but mostly on areas I know something about. True, I'm not "balanced" -- but balance right now would be in effect a lie 3/
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A thread on foolish consistency and little minds: one thing I often encounter in my role as a public intellectual is someone pointing out that I once said something different from what I'm saying now. Why, yes: I do change my views when I get new information 1/
This is what you're supposed to do! Recently Larry Katz and Alan Krueger, who put out a widely cited study on the gig economy, discovered that new evidence makes the growth of that economy look much smaller. And they said so 2/ nber.org/papers/w25425
This is to their credit. If you never change your mind in the face of new arguments and evidence, you're probably a propagandist, not a real economist. Treating such shifts as gotcha moments says more about the critic than the researcher 3/
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I'm trying not to do straight political punditry on the shutdown, because I don't know anything that any observant reader doesn't. But here's what strikes me: the thing with the wall isn't just cynical, it appears to be politically obtuse 1/
Obviously the wall serves no policy purpose, it's just an attempt to rile white people up over the imaginary threat from brown people. But here's the thing: Republicans have been trying that trick repeatedly, and it keeps not working 2/
It didn't work in the 2017 VA governor's race, which the GOP tried to make all about MS-13. A lot of pundits assumed this would work; they lost by 10 points 3/
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Good piece from Bloomberg pointing out that Sweden actually has a top marginal rate of almost 70% -- and grass is hardly growing in the streets 1/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I'd also point out that while the US federal top rate is only 37 -- it was 39.6 before the TCJA -- there are also state and local taxes. If you're a high earner in New York City, you pay almost 9% state and almost 4% city tax at the margin 2/
Plus sales taxes -- 4.5% state and 4% city -- also reduce the purchasing power of a marginal dollar earned. Put all of this together and high earned-income individuals (as opposed to capital incomes) pay a marginal rate of 55-60% 3/
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I just completed Chapter 8 of my livetweeting of my reading of Seth Abramson’s book, Proof of Collusion, which you can buy here: simonandschuster.com/books/Proof-of…
My threads on previous chapters are here:
Chapter 9 is called “’The Hunt for Her Emails.’” Of course, no one ever found them (these were emails that the FBI let Hillary, with the aid of her lawyers, delete when they handed over a large cache of them to the FBI, because as they were going to be published publicly...
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How totalism works #QAnon #QAnons #Qanon8chan #QAnon2018
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I've mentioned DARPA many times... time to dig into this a bit further. DARPA is the acronym for a Pentagon program called Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency created in 1958 (note the timing) in response to Russia's launch of Sputnik, the first artificial Satellite.
The idea was not only the Soviets being ahead in the space race, but the ability to launch a satellite also having the ability to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, i.e. that they could launch a nuclear weapon that could reach the US.
Politically, Russia's Sputnik became a lightening rod in DC, a way for critics of Eisenhower to really attack the POTUS. Within weeks, panic was spun politically. Just like after 9/11, there was a push for a gov't reorg to increase response to threats. After 9/11 we got DHS.
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It's DAY THREE of the Kavanaugh hearings. Gather round, friends for another full day of shenanigans I'll be here all day!

Miss day two? Here's a quick recap

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Today's format is largely the same. Members of the Judiciary Committee get to question Kavanaugh. Unlike yesterday's 30 minute rounds are shortened to 20 minutes
Grassley gavels the proceedings to order

Says yesterday's hearing shows Kavanaugh has a strong command of the law
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The news on our side of the world is fundamentally grim these days, but at least I can shed some light on people's lives that are fundamentally grimmer.
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This is Hebron in the West Bank.
Hebron is the home of one of Islam's holy sites, the Ibrahimi Mosque.
It also happens to be a Jewish holy site named after Abraham as well.

Because of course Judaism and Islam (and Christianity) are fundamentally linked with Abraham. aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/r…
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