This is a terrible event and full respect to those who have prevented it disappearing under White Christian Nationalism.
But another side of it should be celebrated, namely that it took only two generations after the 14th amendment for there to be Tulsa cum Black Wall Street to stir such violence.
Im just going to say it.
The new Ken Burns piece on the American War of Independence is interesting material well handled.
But
The soundtrack truly is a major advance in the treatment of insomnia. Those warm earnest tones all in one register.
Patent it !
The fault-line in Maga has opened …. between those riding it to pursue the billionaire interest vs those who really do want to drain the swamp.
Interesting times.
Moral of this srory : horrible people congregate.
So Summers is tied up with Epstein too … ye Gods.
It is professionally unacceptable to be this ignorant of a country on which you are imposing Conditionality.
ICYMI
The FT cannot get its head around the fact that their primary bond is that they are both White Christian Nationalists.
Nothing “mesmeric”, “underhand”, ”spy thrilllerish” etc. about it.
So a Treasury Secretary who secured his post by saying absolutely anything finds, in the real world, that he has no credibility.
Let us desperately hope there isn’t a major financial crisis in the US or elsewhere with non-credible him still in post.
Shall I compare crowd sizes here and at the inauguration … ?
(h/t) to Will Shakespeare
Cannot help wondering it this latest outbreak of petulance is just because his much hyped 20-point nonsense on Gaza is already crumbling before everyone’s eyes, as Netanyahu humiliates him once more.
He understood deeply.
With OBR ToR back in chatter, a refresher on my take of several years ago …
on.ft.com/3ytG517
… and congruently, Andy is moving towards my view that budget forecasts should move back into Treasury because, despite Osborne, they never were significantly dislodged from reality when housed there.
Well the IMF says in its WEO today that the US trade-weighted tariff is 17.5 percent now.
IMF numbers bouncing around … who knew !
But remains woeful … the core problem is that we have no proof of these claims, let alone quantification, because we only have a single data-point of what goes on at the productivity frontier, THE industrial revolution, and as we know, any regression can fit a single data point.
I doubt it Phil. The leverage was always there; it was just about willingness to use it, or not.
So the US has finally strong-armed Netanyahu into a ceasefire.
Never mind for now good questions about durability etc.
Just ask why it took Trump to force the issue with Netanyahu and why Biden was unwilling to do so ?
And, for the record, obviously what the UK needs to do to fix all of this is reverse its post 2009 productivity disaster.
Yes, Andy off the rails.
LR fiscal sustainability/credibility essential to allow ST discretion.
But if there’s a problem, no need to fix it in one go—framework rightly allows action over time.
But with UK near to full empl, and inflation a tad high, arguable case for some fiscal tightening now.
How much work is “framework” doing ?
My view remains unchanged from immediately following Oct 7:
1. Absolute no to the actions of Hamas.
2. Absolute no to islamophobia anywhere anytime.
3. Absolute no to the actions of the Netanyahu government.
4. Absolute no to anti-semitism anywhere, anytime.
All four, all together, always.
I hope the DEMS do not lose this in the din.
If Trump can have Jan 6 ppls backs with pardons for doing the wrong thing, DEMS must have military backs with full restitution and honor for doing the right thing.
Chair Powell did not want to see this in the data for August.
The DEMS should commit now that any US military who loses their job for refusing an order to fire on US citizens will have any lost pay and pension fully restored, along with a promotion and a newly minted medal honoring this specific valor, when the DEMS return to the White House.
CBAMs, as intellectually baseless as any tariff that Trump has come up with.
Seth.
It isn’t “Christian Nationalism”: it’s “White Christian Nationalism”.
The IMF says the effective US tariff is 9 percent.
Someone is wrong.
Wow .. is this confirmed ?
