Yeah-- Jack Black, Hugo Black, and Lewis Black. 😄
23.02.2026 00:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tariff Man Tumbles, Fumbles and Bumbles on Trade | Washington Spectator
When it comes to economics, we know two things about Donald Trump. He is obsessed with the US trade deficit. And he thinks tariffs, or import taxes, will solve the trade deficit problem.
Steel #tariffs make it more expensive to produce cars in the US, leading Americans to buy foreign-made cars. Tariffs on iPhones assembled in China hurt US workers more than their Chinese counterparts. The US trade deficit keeps growing.
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18.02.2026 19:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Trump really Tumbles on trade and tariffs given today's Supreme Court decision. The first question I have is how Trump plans to refund the money he stole from AMERICAN consumers as a result of his illegal tariffs.
20.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@stevenpressman.bsky.social has been making economics comprehensible for several years in The Washington Spectator.
Search Pressman at washingtonspectator.org for the complete archive of his award-winning articles.
19.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If Dems are smart they will pull on the Lutnick thread.
08.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 1053 🔁 193 💬 48 📌 14
Democrat wins election "comfortably" in big Donald Trump district
In Louisiana, Chastity Verret Martinez received about 62 percent of the vote to Brad Daigle’s 38, according to reports.
📌NOTE:
Yet ANOTHER Democrat won big Saturday night in yet ANOTHER special election in yet ANOTHER district the bigot Trump won big in 2024.
Congratulations to Chastity Verret Martinez!
The Blue Tsunami builds …
08.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 474 🔁 119 💬 14 📌 7
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace used to make her staffers go on late-night booze runs, clean her house, and boost her on forums discussing the “hottest women in Congress”—and that was all before things got really bad. trib.al/gVTEOdV
08.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 130 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 10
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03.12.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Larry Summers’ sexism is jeopardizing his power and privilege, but the entire economics profession hinders progress for women
In 2024, only about 1 in 3 newly minted economics Ph.D.s were women.
This piece I wrote for @theconversation.com argues that the Summers/Epstein debacle reflects what the data show: systemic bias in the economics profession’s practices and culture. That bias influences who succeeds and who is sidelined. #EconSky theconversation.com/larry-summer...
02.12.2025 20:59 — 👍 57 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 5
let's keep reposting this!!
03.12.2025 02:41 — 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
thanks for sharing. it is very bad news, but it is very good to know what we up against.
02.12.2025 00:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He also doesn't understand the basic idea of insurance. Hard to believe that @rogermarshall.bsky.social is doctor and that he got to be a Senator.
10.11.2025 23:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Signs of Danger Ahead for Social Security | Washington Spectator
George Bernard Shaw quipped that if you lined up every economist, they would never reach a conclusion. Pshaw has always been my response to this. In August Donald Trump decisively proved Shaw wrong.
tinyurl.com/33jbsbxu
Will Trump achieve the REP DREAM AND FINALLY KILL SS?
"Social Security is clearly in Trump’s crosshairs. He is not just breaking a campaign promise not 2 touch Social Security, he seems 2 be engineering its funeral"
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28.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@orion thanks for sharing my @washspectator.bsky.social piece on #socialsecurity
01.11.2025 01:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stephen Miller Says Judge's Decision To Stop Deployment of Troops Is 'Legal Insurrection'
Protests against ICE raids have escalated in Portland over the last few weeks, but a federal judge said they're not enough to deploy the National Guard.
tinyurl.com/bdh98v3v
Read Websters is adding thousands of new words
If it doesn't, it should include:
Trump Appointed Judge
Definition: NOT BOUND TO ANY LAWS - APPOINTED TO CONFIRM WHATEVER TRUMP'S WHIMS ARE
05.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Special Issue: 250th Anniversary of The Wealth of Nations
| Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
Call for papers from Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics: Special Issue on the 250th Anniversary of The Wealth of Nations www.ejpe.org/journal/anno...
15.09.2025 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The #s aren't important. It's how we got here & how we get out. Hi debt stems from R tax cuts-- Reagan (1980s), Bush (2000s) & 2 Trump tax cuts. Tax revenues relative to GDP fell by over 2%. Now R's want to cut government spending to deal with their problem. Please don't fall into their trap!
08.09.2025 20:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Talking With Barry Eichengreen
Crises, the dollar and more
Eichengreen: "I was Lisa Cook's PhD dissertation supervisor here at UC Berkeley in 1997. I know nothing about mortgage documentation. But I think I do know quite a bit about the character of the individual here. I know Lisa to be careful and ethical."
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
31.08.2025 14:24 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
You will be greatly missed! Hope you keep on writing about economics. You excel at making economic ideas understandable to a general audience.
23.07.2025 22:25 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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