Tariffs are a tax. The $ to pay taxes comes from gov spending. But Gov spending is being cut. This shifts the economy to 'default' mode characterized by declining tax revenues from slowing sales/employment along with rising transfer payments= increased deficit spending.

Sanders: Does anybody think it makes sense that we have a campaign finance system where one man (Musk) can put $270 million to get Trump elected and then his reward is that he becomes the most powerful person in government? That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.

And interesting discussion worth listening to.

"In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around." -David Graeber

These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

The vapid vandalism of this act defies belief. Astounding level of stupid. nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opi…

Musks "free speech" BS shown for the fraud it is. He defends his speech & speech of his billionaire buddies... NOT free speech. politico.eu/article/musks-…

So the problem with the US trade deficit is that we're losing jobs, so we put on tariffs that make unemployment go up. And if that doesn't work, we put on more. Drilling holes in the boat to let the water out. Back to 'beatings continue until morale improves' policy.

This helps to outline trump & Musk's plan to win the next election... An extension of GOP efforts to skew elections for years. And effectively ensure you people never "have" to vote again. As stated pre-election. youtube.com/watch?v=k_zce1…

We had a class discussion to explore all possible ostensibly rational arguments in favour of what Donald Trump is doing. We could find no such arguments which were coherent. There is no grand plan which makes any kind of sense.

Trump's tariffs, rather than helping American workers, will raise prices for household goods by an estimated $1,500 per family annually. Under Biden, despite global pressures, the US achieved the lowest inflation in the G7 in 2023. These tariffs will reverse that progress,

Fox News: You have to just let him do what he's gonna do. Give him some time because he's a businessman. He's a billionaire. He knows what he's doing. Pyongyang state TV has some serious competition

Pleased to welcome Mariana Mariana Mazzucato to the Levy Institute's Board of Advisors. Read her new piece "Governments Are Not Startups" with Rainer Kattel in Project Syndicate today: project-syndicate.org/commentary/gov… UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

BREAKING: Remember this video of a Democratic woman being was dragged out of a Republican Townhall in Idaho? Remember how MAGA claimed that the security officers acted appropriately? They were ALL just charged. Here are their Names/Charges. - Paul Trouette – Battery, false

There is only one way to end the war: put pressure on the Russians. The Trump people did the opposite: put pressure on Ukraine, and relieved pressure on Russia. They have made the war worse while talking of "peace."

"free speech" warriors of GOP & trump regime... Just more empty LIES. youtube.com/watch?v=CyoW6k…

“Most finance goes back into finance, insurance and real estate rather than into productive uses. The acronym for this is FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate)” -Mariana Mazzucato

(1/9) In 2024, 8 million student loan borrowers landed in “payment pause purgatory” after courts blocked debt relief. No progress, just anxiety. But why did college get so expensive?