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Last month, Robert Armstrong coined the acronym 'Taco' — which stands for 'Trump always chickens out' — as a way to describe the US president's tariff approach and the way markets react to it.

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May 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
May 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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If only there was a timeless metaphor central to our culture that outlined the risk governments take when accepting huge ostentatious gifts and bringing them into the territory.
U.S. Formally Accepts Luxury Jet From Qatar for Trump
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May 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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May 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?
April 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Lawyers must defend the rule of law! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump
The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
March 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Anyone who tells you you're overreacting is underreacting.
February 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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This sad little man could’ve decided a decade ago to just enjoy retirement and golf. He’d be wealthy and probably still widely remembered as “America’s Mayor.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/n...
Rudy Giuliani Loses His Lawyers, and His Cool, in Court
The subject of several cases, the former New York City mayor lashed out at a judge questioning why he had not forfeited personal assets as required.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...
November 24, 2024 at 11:12 PM