Very good @ezraklein interview with @LHSummers. Summers totally–and not unconvincingly–dismisses Biden’s (and Klein’s) big idea that we can fight inflation if we “try to rapidly increase supply.” The supply increases just take too long. https://t.co/VEOrLnkYIx
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Mar 30, 2022
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Also possible that he just read Ferguson’s column. Sourcing is kind of thin …
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Mar 30, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 09:45PM
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“[Biden’s] comments reflect a sense in Washington that some form of ‘regime change’ in Russia is both conceivable and desirable.” @gideonrachman seems to have talked to some of the same ‘bleed Putin’ sages as @nfergus. But no names are named https://t.co/DrPDa0uuwc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 30, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 09:02PM
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Actually, you have to get pretty far down in the line of succession before you get to someone who’s *not* prone to verbal gaffes. And he’s an 81-year old Deadhead. I give you Presidenty Leahy https://t.co/eVabEnyzcy https://t.co/IdZgjpDavQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 05:14PM
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Tucker ducks the Kamala Problem https://t.co/OYaWuWuwc6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 05:08PM
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Immigration seems the key to short-circuiting the part of the business cycle where real wages for ordinary people are supposed to rise. … https://t.co/U36hNFTeLR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 02:13PM
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We only have one President, and he’s it, so I am pro cheat-sheet. Do not shame him! https://t.co/b10Xkqg9yk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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Right across from Penn Station I believe … https://t.co/8WZuDNz87O
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Mar 29, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 01:59PM
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New Balance bulks up manufacturing presence in U.S. amid global supply chain backlogs https://t.co/wpIBpvhGfR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 01:45PM
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I support restraining legal immigration (for wage reasons), but this chart looks pretty stable (at high level) until COVID hits. … https://t.co/S3uhVvyi2M
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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DNF. Just because Putin ignores all advisers and is flying solo doesn’t mean he ignores what his *enemies* (ie Biden) are saying & doing in making up (solo) his mind …
Near-childish rationalization. https://t.co/dZMNlnZiDb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 01:32AM
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It does? Seems like progress to me. Presumably Zelensky & Co. are well aware of possible bad faith on Russia’s part. If they’re still pursuing this why reflexively piss on it? https://t.co/IpB6lpEhh2
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Mar 29, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 01:27AM
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This is of course hotheaded BS. We pay BIden to care what Putin thinks. Denzel needs to have a word with him. https://t.co/PcCwr9JTC6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 29, 2022 at 01:03AM
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As Biden himself might say, this was a big effin’ deal. https://t.co/pAmAZ0xskQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 11:53PM
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Even a vague “increase” in Child Tax Credit does poorly, as usual. As does increasing the # of immigrants. (But not as poorly as taking in “as many as possible” refugess “from around the world”!) https://t.co/aXvmjnvNH0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 09:57PM
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Hmm. The “ad lib” replaced whatever the written last line of the speech was. (I doubt the prepared speech ended on “Of decency and dignity and freedom and possibilities.”) So what was that last line Biden didn’t read? Would tell us something. (I bet it’s pretty strident!) https://t.co/1CA57bacd4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 29, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 09:12PM
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It turns out when low-income Americans (conspicuously including single moms) go to work, they are positioned to benefit from the economy’s “up” periods. Why would Democrats want to undermine this achievement by encouraging non-work via no-strings Child Tax Credit welfare checks? https://t.co/D2rAXLWOdN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 02:56PM
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“Child Poverty Has Been Cut in Half Since 1996 Welfare Reform”– That’s using expenditure measures. But even under official imperfect income measure, since welfare reform child poverty fell by >25% by 2019 to record lows. https://t.co/OE5lErYYFD
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 02:51PM
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Are now 2 credible, anecdotal reports that this is the year Woke UC Admissions policy really crushed expectations of Asian/white students at good high schools. Will @latimes
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 02:27PM
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Biden actually said pretty much that: (“Putin can and must end this war.”) But that was mid-speech, before he made it clear that ending the war would not satisfy him–i.e. wouldn’t end the long-term anti-Putin, anti-autocracy fight he thinks he was launching. https://t.co/CBb8MwEBaR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 01:52PM
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Sometimes when you’re stupidly cancelled by social media it’s not worth getting reinstated … https://t.co/p6sSqAEXFq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 01:24AM
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.@EricGreitens can’t have that many friends https://t.co/iMHD6chUhU
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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March 28, 2022 at 12:43AM
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Be Not Afraid! Victoria Nuland @UnderSecStateP will find the right guy and make a few phone calls …. https://t.co/o64GgGYUgw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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March 27, 2022 at 09:59PM
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This will make it that much harder to end Putinism, even if Putin himself is replaced, no? And it makes it easier for Putin to avoid that fate: He can say *any* gains in a Ukraine deal are a victory in the long war against the obviously anti-Russia West. https://t.co/Tri2GmcgBW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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March 27, 2022 at 09:56PM
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Biden’s speech, of course, completely fed into Putin’s worldview of Western conspiracy vs. Russia. (“The Eurasian Empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, the strategic control of the USA”) https://t.co/koI6Q8dbPU https://t.co/Z7ZeJkSGUq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 28, 2022
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