Teresa Fort
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I guess these guys haven’t read all the latest trade theory models! In case it’s not obvious, I think the models are missing something…
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Argentina’s export tax hurts its critical agricultural industry. President Javier Milei has yet to follow through on a promise to end it.
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The President fumes at a Canadian TV ad quoting Reagan on protectionism’s perils, but Trump shouldn’t get away with twisting the Gipper’s free-trade beliefs.
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The Gipper was a free trader, no matter what the current President says.
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Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place. https://t.co/XJarwqFiOF via @NYTimes
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The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans.
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The costs of Trump’s campaign to censor climate science via @FT
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Datasets have been removed, federal websites scrubbed and thousands of Noaa staff purged. Experts warn disaster defences are at risk
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Protesters converged on parks and downtown squares Saturday for a “No Kings” rally to protest what they say are authoritarian actions of the Trump administration
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Prosecutors will have to prove John Bolton knew his diary notes contained classified information rather than being recollections that would be subject to review before becoming public.
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Prosecutors fulfill Trump’s call to punish his former national security adviser and frequent critic.
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Great article by a great journalist. Working-class investors are flocking to stocks, betting and crypto, beneficiaries of a new age of democratic finance—or the last invitees to a party that’s going to end, writes WSJ’s Greg Ip
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Working-class investors are flocking to stocks, betting and crypto, beneficiaries of a new age of democratic finance—or the last invitees to a party that’s going to end.
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Upset over higher food prices, consumers are cutting back on purchases, stockpiling certain items or exploring more-affordable stores
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Record beef prices and coffee that costs $1 more per pound since May have shoppers cutting back on some foods, stockpiling others.
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The only way the numbers look good in 2026 is if they start to make them up.
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Advisers are privately assuring the president that his policies will pay off.
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Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash https://t.co/IpoeDP25sa via @NYTimes
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Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was said to be recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover F.B.I. agents.
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The Trump Fantasy Is Unraveling https://t.co/TCIyhJHs5s via @NYTOpinion
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The president’s voters wanted to have it both ways. Reality said no.
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Trump Secured the Border, So Where Are the Jobs? by @JasonRileyWSJ
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There’s little evidence that less immigration means more opportunities for Americans to work.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t seem to understand the First Amendment or Supreme Court precedent.
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The Attorney General seems to think ‘hate speech’ is illegal. Charlie Kirk knew better.
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In her first public comments since Trump fired her, the former head of the government agency that measures inflation and job growth called her dismissal “a dangerous step” for the economy
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In first public remarks since Trump removed her, Erika McEntarfer says she wanted to modernize federal statistics but the agency got caught in DOGE’s crosshairs.
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The Economics of Education Reform by Roland Fryer
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We know how to make schools effective. What’s lacking is leadership committed to doing so.
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A Trump critic who nevertheless voted for him. How does he feel about that now?
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The Citadel CEO wrote in an opinion piece that President Trump’s attack on the Federal Reserve “carries steep costs.”
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Trump made clear that he was out for blood against John Bolton when he pulled the former adviser’s protective detail after his re-election.
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This FBI raid makes clearer that second-term success for the President includes retribution.
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It’s almost funny that the Chinese are making Trump so rich. The online trading platform PancakeSwap serves as an incubator of sorts, drumming up interest among traders to use coins issued by the Trump family’s main crypto company, World Liberty Financial
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The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon from President Trump.
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The era of measuring these things is over. Immediately preceding and following the pandemic, wages for poor workers began rising much faster than they did for the rich. That era may have come to at least a temporary halt.
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Wage growth for top earners once again outstrips gains for those at the bottom.
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This sounds like an export tax. I guess Trump isn’t familiar with the US Constitution… @Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to give the Trump administration a portion of the sales from their artificial-intelligence chips to China
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The unusual arrangement follows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s meeting with President Trump.
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