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December 6, 2024 at 4:00 PM
🇺🇸 Trade wars didn’t save us in the 1930s — they sank us.
📉 Jobs lost
💵 Prices up
🏚️ Depression worsened
Tariffs don’t fix unemployment. They just make Walmart, Lowe’s & Home Depot more expensive.
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#EconFacts #TradeWars #SmartMoneyMoves #InflationNation
📉 Jobs lost
💵 Prices up
🏚️ Depression worsened
Tariffs don’t fix unemployment. They just make Walmart, Lowe’s & Home Depot more expensive.
Watch: linktw.in/xKhtgi
#EconFacts #TradeWars #SmartMoneyMoves #InflationNation
July 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🇺🇸 Trade wars didn’t save us in the 1930s — they sank us.
📉 Jobs lost
💵 Prices up
🏚️ Depression worsened
Tariffs don’t fix unemployment. They just make Walmart, Lowe’s & Home Depot more expensive.
Watch: linktw.in/xKhtgi
#EconFacts #TradeWars #SmartMoneyMoves #InflationNation
📉 Jobs lost
💵 Prices up
🏚️ Depression worsened
Tariffs don’t fix unemployment. They just make Walmart, Lowe’s & Home Depot more expensive.
Watch: linktw.in/xKhtgi
#EconFacts #TradeWars #SmartMoneyMoves #InflationNation
The "Winner's Curse" isn’t just for auctions—think oil leases, sports drafts, IPOs, or even eBay. Winning often means you overestimated the prize's value (failure to account for asymmetric information). Optimism is expensive! 🛑💰 #EconFacts #GameTheory
January 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The "Winner's Curse" isn’t just for auctions—think oil leases, sports drafts, IPOs, or even eBay. Winning often means you overestimated the prize's value (failure to account for asymmetric information). Optimism is expensive! 🛑💰 #EconFacts #GameTheory
Prime-age labor force participation hit a 22-year high under Biden—hardly a broken labor market.
Immigration rose with global displacement, not domestic failure.
The data tells a better story than the vibes. Dems should lead with it.
#EconFacts #LaborMarket #ImmigrationPolicy
Immigration rose with global displacement, not domestic failure.
The data tells a better story than the vibes. Dems should lead with it.
#EconFacts #LaborMarket #ImmigrationPolicy
The Biden immigration wave collided with a US labor market that's highly segmented, with a large number of people - especially young men - left on the sidelines. That was toxic going into the 2024 election and is why we've ended up here. Today's substack:
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-did-we...
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June 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Prime-age labor force participation hit a 22-year high under Biden—hardly a broken labor market.
Immigration rose with global displacement, not domestic failure.
The data tells a better story than the vibes. Dems should lead with it.
#EconFacts #LaborMarket #ImmigrationPolicy
Immigration rose with global displacement, not domestic failure.
The data tells a better story than the vibes. Dems should lead with it.
#EconFacts #LaborMarket #ImmigrationPolicy
GOP promised tariffs would protect American jobs. Reality?
📉 Factory activity down for 5 straight months, job growth stalling, and prices rising.
The bill for the lies is coming due—and it’s hitting workers hardest. #TariffTruth #EconFacts
📉 Factory activity down for 5 straight months, job growth stalling, and prices rising.
The bill for the lies is coming due—and it’s hitting workers hardest. #TariffTruth #EconFacts
🚨 U.S. factory sector contracted for the 5th straight month in July (ISM).
Trump’s tariffs are piling on pain—raising costs, slashing demand, and leaving factories reeling.
You can’t revive manufacturing by choking it.
www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-fa...
Trump’s tariffs are piling on pain—raising costs, slashing demand, and leaving factories reeling.
You can’t revive manufacturing by choking it.
www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-fa...
U.S. factory sector contracts for 5th straight month in July, ISM shows
“The dominant theme remains tariffs,” the ISM notes.
www.marketwatch.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
GOP promised tariffs would protect American jobs. Reality?
📉 Factory activity down for 5 straight months, job growth stalling, and prices rising.
The bill for the lies is coming due—and it’s hitting workers hardest. #TariffTruth #EconFacts
📉 Factory activity down for 5 straight months, job growth stalling, and prices rising.
The bill for the lies is coming due—and it’s hitting workers hardest. #TariffTruth #EconFacts
Tariffs are a blunt tool—with global supply chains, they hurt U.S. consumers and small businesses most. There are better ways to address trade imbalances without risking economic fallout. #SmartTrade #EconFacts
May 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Tariffs are a blunt tool—with global supply chains, they hurt U.S. consumers and small businesses most. There are better ways to address trade imbalances without risking economic fallout. #SmartTrade #EconFacts
Exporting more rice to Asia will mean Americans pay higher prices for rice. #econfacts #LiberationDay
April 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Exporting more rice to Asia will mean Americans pay higher prices for rice. #econfacts #LiberationDay
Tariffs don’t “protect” you—they tax you. They hike prices, kill jobs, tank your 401(k), an crush the middle class. If you still think they’re patriotic, the joke’s on you
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#EconFacts #TariffTalk #TradeWars #InflationExplained #Economics101 #GlobalEconomy
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#EconFacts #TariffTalk #TradeWars #InflationExplained #Economics101 #GlobalEconomy
April 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Tariffs don’t “protect” you—they tax you. They hike prices, kill jobs, tank your 401(k), an crush the middle class. If you still think they’re patriotic, the joke’s on you
linktw.in/kFLZtj
#EconFacts #TariffTalk #TradeWars #InflationExplained #Economics101 #GlobalEconomy
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#EconFacts #TariffTalk #TradeWars #InflationExplained #Economics101 #GlobalEconomy
Do tax cuts really boost growth?
Decades of research say: not much.
History shows design, financing & fairness matter more than marginal rates.
Do Income Taxes Rates Impact Economic Growth?
open.substack.com/pub/simsc/p/...
#TaxesAndGrowth #EconFacts #Deficits #Inequality
Decades of research say: not much.
History shows design, financing & fairness matter more than marginal rates.
Do Income Taxes Rates Impact Economic Growth?
open.substack.com/pub/simsc/p/...
#TaxesAndGrowth #EconFacts #Deficits #Inequality
Do Income Taxes Rates Impact Economic Growth?
What the Evidence Really Shows on how taxes influence growth, deficits, and inequality
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September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Do tax cuts really boost growth?
Decades of research say: not much.
History shows design, financing & fairness matter more than marginal rates.
Do Income Taxes Rates Impact Economic Growth?
open.substack.com/pub/simsc/p/...
#TaxesAndGrowth #EconFacts #Deficits #Inequality
Decades of research say: not much.
History shows design, financing & fairness matter more than marginal rates.
Do Income Taxes Rates Impact Economic Growth?
open.substack.com/pub/simsc/p/...
#TaxesAndGrowth #EconFacts #Deficits #Inequality
VAT isn't an export subsidy! Rebates ensure each country taxes only local consumption. Both foreign and domestic products face identical tax treatment in each market. #EconFacts
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Stop saying a value-added tax is an export subsidy
It's not. No matter how many times people (even economists) say they are.
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March 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
VAT isn't an export subsidy! Rebates ensure each country taxes only local consumption. Both foreign and domestic products face identical tax treatment in each market. #EconFacts
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In a wartime economy, production surges but prosperity doesn’t.
Factories hum, yet freedoms shrink, inflation bites, and debt soars. War may fuel GDP, but it burns through peace, people, and purpose. 💣📉
#EconFacts #WarEconomy
Factories hum, yet freedoms shrink, inflation bites, and debt soars. War may fuel GDP, but it burns through peace, people, and purpose. 💣📉
#EconFacts #WarEconomy
Hegseth: "We must wage an all-out campaign to streamline the Pentagon's process, to unshackle our people from unproductive work and to shift our resources from the bureaucracy to the battlefield. Our objection is simple: transform the entire acquisition system to operate on a wartime footing."
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In a wartime economy, production surges but prosperity doesn’t.
Factories hum, yet freedoms shrink, inflation bites, and debt soars. War may fuel GDP, but it burns through peace, people, and purpose. 💣📉
#EconFacts #WarEconomy
Factories hum, yet freedoms shrink, inflation bites, and debt soars. War may fuel GDP, but it burns through peace, people, and purpose. 💣📉
#EconFacts #WarEconomy