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Damned Lies and Statistics

via Mauldin Economics  There’s been an air of euphoria about the economy – a sense that the boom times will keep going – with GDP growth over 4% and the jobless rate under 4%. Yet, the last two times we …

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State by State Illegal Alien Costs. Damned Outrageous!

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/heres-how-much-illegal-aliens-cost-every-state-awesome-map/   We could have The Wall for a fraction of what the politicians are spending on illegal aliens. And imagine the good we could be doing for our own children and our elderly. h/t dollop

DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON’T

Twitter Bans Conservative Author For Tweet Supporting Sarah Jeong And Opposing Deplatforming. Elizabeth Kantor: They deplatformed me—for a tweet deploring deplatforming. Here’s the full text of my offending tweet, a full-throttle defense of New York Times editorial board hiree Sarah …

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Central banks are damned if they raise interest rates and damned if they don't, largely because their policies have resulted in both risk-taking (i.e. the creation of asset bubbles in stocks, bonds and real estate) and excess levels of debt.

Here’s a summary from the report which succinctly explains the potential debt crisis and how the world’s central banks have painted themselves into a “monetary policy corner”: “Otherwise, over long horizons, failing to constrain financial booms but easing aggressively and …

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