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this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke

19.01.2026 05:53 👍 4379 🔁 957 💬 64 📌 33
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Opinion | You Can’t Break the Laws of Economics Supply and demand invariably overcome any effort to defy or outsmart them.

“Let me make what appears to have become a radical argument: Simple economics is surprisingly good at making real-world predictions.”

trying to break the mold with a defense of economics
www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

19.08.2025 01:50 👍 87 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 2

Congratulations!

23.06.2025 12:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it."

And then... I lost it.

26.04.2025 12:47 👍 7540 🔁 2240 💬 308 📌 294

Note that it's output, not production Honda weighs on shifting. Most likely they will produce 99% of the car in their facilities in Canada and Mexico and import them as "car parts" to be "assembled" in the US.

15.04.2025 09:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If Trump doesn't like the policies of Ivy League universities, maybe he should found his own university... oh wait, never mind

15.04.2025 09:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mein Beileid!

10.04.2025 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It sounds woke to me

08.04.2025 21:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

EU's response (in addition to higher tariffs) should be much higher digital taxes on big tech firms. It's digital products that EU imports the most from the US and taxing them more would be also most effective.

07.04.2025 07:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Paul Samuelson on the theory of comparative advantage

04.04.2025 14:55 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Why don't credit rating agencies declare that the US federal government is in default, is beyond me

02.03.2025 12:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very curious about 3. Why would LaTeX be a negative signal?

04.12.2024 21:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0