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Should New York Fear a Socialist Mayor?
Should the Democratic Party?
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Todd Lassa
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Tiff-Based Tariffs
If you wanted to — or didn’t want to, put your fingers in your ears and go “nah-nah-nah” to block out the information — hear a clear statement of why…
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Stephen Macaulay
Trump Applies His Art of Tariffs to Ukraine
If you buy the notion that our transactional president applies The Art of the Deal to everything he negotiates, both domestic and foreign, Donald J.
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Todd Lassa
The Gilded Cage Match
Tesla stock price year-to-date is down (at least for the moment) by about 22%.
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Stephen Macaulay

June 2025

Regime Change for Iran?
Has a better ring to it than 'CIA-assisted coup'
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Todd Lassa
CEOs & Uncertainty
The Business Roundtable is a Washington, D.C.-based organization of CEOs.
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Stephen Macaulay
Will He? Won't He? Does He Know?
“I may do it.
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Stephen Macaulay
Except Netanyahu?
“Nobody knows what I’m going to do,” President Trump said Wednesday morning in regard to a potential bunker buster strike by the US Air Force on Iran’s…
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Todd Lassa
The Damage is Being Dumb
Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday June 12, “Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers.
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Stephen Macaulay
CBO: Trump Tariffs Pay for OBBB Deficits
As media were starting to get caught up in all the folderol of the Musk-Trump breakup, the Congressional Budget Office put out a report requested by key…
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Todd Lassa
If You Like Massive Deficits, You'll Love OBBB
One of the arguments that is made on behalf of the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is that if we go back to the 2017 Trump tax cuts, there…
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Stephen Macaulay
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Trump v. Musk: Another Diversion
Look at it like this:
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Stephen Macaulay
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