I’ve hesitated to say this at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, but with last week’s big GDP revisions, there is no denying it: This is among the best performing economies in my 35+ years as an economist. Economic growth is rip-roaring, with real GDP up 3% over the past year.

JD Vance is a fusion of every kid that vanished on the Wonka Factory tour.

🧵 One of the things that genuinely pisses me off regularly is the absolute non-coverage of the fact that everything the Biden administration has had to deal with for 4 years are specific, unambiguous examples of Donald Trump's intentional sabotage of this country. 1/

NBC News Exclusive: A group of imams have endorsed Vice President Harris in an open letter — a critical boost as she steps up her efforts to win back disaffected Muslim voters The 25 Islamic religious leaders argue that Muslim voters have a duty to think logically about their

8th anniversary of this tweet: (2016)

I understand that there are a lot of people who object to abortions – then don't get an abortion. We have religious freedom in this country and I respect everyone's religion, but do not use your religious beliefs to control my body. Learn more from @we.all.need.a at the link in

Thank you all for this glorious community note

Historians are screaming this — like literally, I'm sitting here trying to think of the last campaign like this in the U.S. & you're probably going back to at least segregation. Trump's racism is far more overt than George Wallace's POTUS campaigns, for example. At the

Bill, saying you support the candidate who has promised to cut taxes for billionaires vs. the candidate who will raise taxes on billionaires, but you don't really support the tax cuts is a bit like the old "I read Playboy for the articles." But fine, let's assume you are

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Ridiculous, undemocratic, and why we can’t grow the global game.

Was head marketing guy, NBC: "While we were successful in marketing 'The Apprentice,' we also did irreparable harm by creating the false image of Trump as a successful leader. I deeply regret that. And I regret that it has taken me so long to go public." usnews.com/opinion/articl…

Mark Cuban Hi. I come from a family of Taiwanese manufacturers who went into China in the 90s. What Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful needs is to stop sourcing from China if he’s concerned about his products being knocked off. Because anything manufactured there will be. Many large brands looked the other

Has the U.S. economy, historically, been better under Republican presidents or Democratic presidents? A Republican financial analyst decided to find out. His name? Bart Starr, Jr. (Yes, the son of THAT Bart Starr.) The answer may surprise you.🧵

Donald Trump has trotted out a range of zany tax pledges in recent weeks. Many are philosophically hard to defend. Practically they will be a mess—and promise to open a dizzying array of loopholes econ.st/408agMe 👇

“.. We’re the richest, most prosperous nation on the planet and there’s not a close second (sorry China).” 🇺🇸 Ben Carlson awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/10/the-ne…

We used to be a proper industry First 8 seconds Mssrs @EricDrosin and Andrew Carrier 🍸 (find me on Bluesky) youtu.be/a25jc54YFzo?si…

In which Tim Miller tries "to convince these Haley voters that their perspective on Biden, Harris, and Trump 1.0 could be entirely accurate . . . and it would still not justify a vote for Donald Trump 2.0." thebulwark.com/p/a-message-fo…

Democracy dies in "Both Sides"

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck?