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This is because I was briefly in Vienna yesterday.
Today’s Chartbook features Red Vienna and the SPÖ’s landslide win in the state elections held yesterday.
April 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is because I was briefly in Vienna yesterday.
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How the Trump coalition beyond MAGA is splintering in the face of actually existing Trumpianism—is featured in today’s Chartbook Top Link. Click the link in the comment to visit.
April 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
How the Trump coalition beyond MAGA is splintering in the face of actually existing Trumpianism—is featured in today’s Chartbook Top Link. Click the link in the comment to visit.
There has been a lot of these rapid reversals. It would be cool to see a chart on how this is all shaking out.
We think the correct term for this admin is "hot mess express."
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RFK Jr. announces HHS reinstating some programs, employees cut by mistake
On the heels of terminating 10,000 jobs from the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told ABC News some programs would soon be reinstated because they were mistakenly cut.
abcnews.go.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
There has been a lot of these rapid reversals. It would be cool to see a chart on how this is all shaking out.
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Yale Budget Lab analysis of tariffs: $3,800 hit to average household. Loss of 4% of after-tax income to poorest households; 1.5% to richest.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/whe...
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/whe...
Where We Stand: The Fiscal, Economic, and Distributional Effects of All U.S. Tariffs Enacted in 2025 Through April 2
budgetlab.yale.edu
April 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Yale Budget Lab analysis of tariffs: $3,800 hit to average household. Loss of 4% of after-tax income to poorest households; 1.5% to richest.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/whe...
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/whe...
Glad I got to see the African American Museum last week before the literal whitewashing.
“The order he signed behind closed doors puts Vice President JD Vance, who serves on the Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents, in charge of overseeing efforts to “remove improper ideology” from all areas of the institution…”
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology'
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that contain what he calls “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
apnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Glad I got to see the African American Museum last week before the literal whitewashing.
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Nearly a third of U.S. patents rely directly on federal government supported research, and most of those patents are by corporations.
h/t @jossfong.bsky.social
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March 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Nearly a third of U.S. patents rely directly on federal government supported research, and most of those patents are by corporations.
h/t @jossfong.bsky.social
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.
(Punchbowl) - Extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts would boost the national debt by almost 50% when measured as a percentage of GDP and increase the deficit by around $4 trillion, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis.
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CBO: Extending Trump tax cuts would boost deficit, debt
The analysis comes as Senate Republicans are set to huddle with the Senate parliamentarian’s office to get guidance on the “current policy baseline.”
punchbowl.news
March 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.
Resort development as foreign policy
Who says our leaders lack imagination? Seymour Hersh: "I was told by the official that Trump’s main ambition was to lift the current economic sanctions on Russia and form a partnership with Putin to turn Crimea into a major international resort."
March 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Resort development as foreign policy
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Good to see the FT editorial draw attention to this less well known casualty of the US regime - official statistics
on.ft.com/43Tejhn
on.ft.com/43Tejhn
The White House war on federal statistics
Economists and scientists worry over disappearing data and advisory groups
on.ft.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Good to see the FT editorial draw attention to this less well known casualty of the US regime - official statistics
on.ft.com/43Tejhn
on.ft.com/43Tejhn
It is a myth that large numbers of voters who formerly supported social democratic parties have defected to the far-right. Visit Chartbook Top Link to find out more!
March 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
March 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Trump & Co. are always whining about Biden's wild debt spree. Here are the facts. During Trump’s first term, the federal debt to GDP ratio increased by 22.5 points. Under Biden it rose by 0.9 points.
March 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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What a fucking liar.
Elon Musk says "10% of federal expenditures" are due to people having fake Social Security numbers, claiming it is "half a trillion dollars."
March 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
What a fucking liar.
Immigration slowdown might be hitting the job market.
Employment in industries with more unauthorized immigrants contracted in the past two months.
Job growth much stronger in industries with fewer unauthorized immigrants.
(Gonna be tracking this one every month.)
Employment in industries with more unauthorized immigrants contracted in the past two months.
Job growth much stronger in industries with fewer unauthorized immigrants.
(Gonna be tracking this one every month.)
March 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The COVID caused wage growth has all but disappeared in the US.
March 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The COVID caused wage growth has all but disappeared in the US.
"Our alternative indicator reveals that, since 2001, the cost of living for Americans with modest incomes has risen 35 percent faster than the CPI.... When our more targeted measure of inflation shows purchasing power fell at the median by 4.3 percent in 2023."
Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
www.politico.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Our alternative indicator reveals that, since 2001, the cost of living for Americans with modest incomes has risen 35 percent faster than the CPI.... When our more targeted measure of inflation shows purchasing power fell at the median by 4.3 percent in 2023."
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Trump’s actions reflect a wider ideological rupture
The US right has significantly diverged from European values
Less into cooperation, more authoritarian
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s new analysis of WVS & EVS!
The US right has significantly diverged from European values
Less into cooperation, more authoritarian
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s new analysis of WVS & EVS!
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Trump’s actions reflect a wider ideological rupture
The US right has significantly diverged from European values
Less into cooperation, more authoritarian
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s new analysis of WVS & EVS!
The US right has significantly diverged from European values
Less into cooperation, more authoritarian
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com’s new analysis of WVS & EVS!
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Hear the sirens.
If the warfare state replaces the welfare state, this will further fuel the extreme right. More countries falling in the hands of extreme right nationalists would weaken Europe in an existential way.
If the warfare state replaces the welfare state, this will further fuel the extreme right. More countries falling in the hands of extreme right nationalists would weaken Europe in an existential way.
March 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hear the sirens.
If the warfare state replaces the welfare state, this will further fuel the extreme right. More countries falling in the hands of extreme right nationalists would weaken Europe in an existential way.
If the warfare state replaces the welfare state, this will further fuel the extreme right. More countries falling in the hands of extreme right nationalists would weaken Europe in an existential way.
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aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt
February 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt
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I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.
February 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.
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US Farm labour is far more expensive in the US than in either Canada or Mexico. Visit Chartbook Top Link to find out more. Subscribe here: tinyurl.com/4yrdfrj5
February 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
US Farm labour is far more expensive in the US than in either Canada or Mexico. Visit Chartbook Top Link to find out more. Subscribe here: tinyurl.com/4yrdfrj5