Where has this happened before🧐

WSJ, 2003: Hugo Chavez Threatens to Revoke Media Companies' Licenses

🇦🇷🇺🇸New: Argentine statistician Graciela Bevacqua once lost her gov't job for refusing to doctor inflation data. I talked to her.

Officials produced junk reports for years & prosecuted Bevacqua for releasing independent ones

On Argentina's fall into blindness & lessons for US qz.com/trump-bls-fi...

Buenos Aires called, they want their emerging economy back.

A little on what happens when there’s political meddling in the statistical infrastructure of government: citizens lose confidence in data, followed by more international scrutiny of federal finances
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👀Tax change in GOP’s BBB: Latest Senate version shrinks the remittance tax to 1% from 3.5%. Republican senators are chopping away at the aggressive House version.

It still applies to remittances paid by cash, money order, or cashier check and exempts most. Kicks in Jan. 2026

Blast from the past: An 1884 New York newspaper piece reproduced by Cuban writer Jose Martí described US tariffs on Mexico as a “stupid and almost suicidal policy”

Getting older is realizing the next US president who passes away will be one who served in office while I was alive

20th century journalism in Latin America is really something else

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isn’t it a little early for newspapers to put out their 2028 endorsements

Big “repeal and replace” energy in which Rs rail against a Democratic law but haven’t fully thought through the consequences of repeal.

Sen. Tillis last year suggested Ds “accidentally implemented policy that made sense” in parts of IRA www.semafor.com/article/05/1...
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Today at 2PM! I’ll be part of a 2025 tax and family policy webinar organized by the Ethics and Public Policy Center. We’ll be laying out the landscape of next year’s tax debate and where it could go. Join us 🤓
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editor: hey do you think you’ll be filing anytime soon?

me: