A literal bridge to and from nowhere.

“Weird vibe”

Wow I’m shocked that the kids chanting for a genocide of Jews are inconsiderate in other ways too!

Seems bananas at first to give everyone in the class an A, but come to think of it, that may be Columbia's ordinary grading curve.

That is about two and a half times the U.S. casualties in Vietnam in less than two and a half years.

'Congress has a rare chance to end a bad program before it becomes an entrenched part of the welfare state...The U.S. doesn’t need web welfare.'

-Dominic Pino Capital Matters
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Come to think of it, a guy who came over as a poor immigrant, took up a dangerous but well-remunerated trade, became the best in the world at it, then opened his own businesses related to that trade is the Platonic Form of the blue-collar Republican.

Powell on taking politics into account when setting interest rates: 'We just don't do that .... If you go down that road, where do you stop?'

'Michael, what is this 'Everything Leftism' of which you speak?'
Behold:

The mythical national security argument for protecting the steel industry breakingdefense.com/2024/03/the-my…

Nissan employees in New Jersey had four years of UAW membership.

They decided that was enough.

New from me National Review
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Cars staying in decent shape longer:

Uncle Rich likes my American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.

If it's good enough for Uncle Rich, it's good enough for you.

Listen and subscribe to Econception here: flow.page/econception

Man this is good

Very thorough takedown of Biden admin spin in favor of a broadband & phone welfare program. This is important to understand because of frantic (and sadly bipartisan) efforts to extend/expand the program.

The FCC is spinning its own survey results to argue for extending web welfare.

I explain how looking at the full survey results tells a different story, and why Congress should not renew funding for the already-over Affordable Connectivity Program National Review
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The Treasury Dept. is adopting a Lehman Bros. approach to funding long-term liabilities with short-term financing. Despite an inverted yield curve, we are issuing more debt maturing within 1 year than we were 7 years ago. NUTS.

Read Jim Geraghty on yet another example of the simple incompetence of government
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The Federal Reserve’s decision to continue exceptional monetary stimulus through 2021-22 was an obvious mistake *at the time* and plenty of people pointed it out. But the Fed was in its own epistemic bubble.