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Trump must be feeling his oats on the international stage because he just threatened to withdraw the promised $20 billion in economic aid to Argentina, if the voters their go against Milei on Oct 26th. I’m not sure Trump understands that if Argentina...
by Merlin196360
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This weekend I’m attending The Anti-Austerity Conference. Although it is taking place in Bristol, UK, you can attend virtually, as I am. The basic principle of the conference is based on a quote by John Maynard Keynes: Anything we can do, we can...
by Bethesda 1971
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While it applies to describing the connection between banks and the Fed, ‘money multipliers’ become more tricky, especially when more policy is driven by interest rates rather than monetary quantities, which entails so much more unlearning since the...
by annieli
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The Trump Administration has plunged the United States into a constitutional crisis. The President’s destructive executive orders and Elon Musk’s aggressive interventions in state agencies and payment systems have repeatedly violated federal law and...
by Scott Ferguson
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So much for compromise in Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” eh? Not only are the cuts not being scaled down, not only will there not be a tax increase on the wealthy in the spirit of budgetary seriousness, but there’s a debt-financed tax cut....
by BenBanks82
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I’ll give credit where credit is due. Mike Johnson may be better able to handle the chaotic Republican House Caucus than John Boehner, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy were. He is now on the verge of passing a budget that will hurt a lot of people with...
by BenBanks82
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� � � � � Passed by the British Parliament in 1765, the Stamp Act is often seen as the first major event that pushed the American colonists toward independence from Great Britain.� American ...
by PeterPorcupine
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This story originally appeared at Clean Slate: New Ideas for Justice and Democracy. If the world has you feeling deeply concerned an uncomfortable, it’s certainly because while there is lots of heat - and panic - there’s precious little light. While...
by VikingLawspeaker
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A dependable monetary system requires source(s) of money, dependable distribution mechanisms, and liquidity management to prevent adverse inflation. In the US monetary system, the Federal Reserve is the source for all American money. The money is...
by verbingle
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This post was originally published on the szcz.org website. Once again I expected/hoped that Donald Trump would lose to a woman candidate, and once again I was disappointed that this did not happen, so once again we have to endure four more years....
by msszczep
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