Textbook fascism: “If you make [Trump] unhappy, he responds unhappy”. Unbelievable. The US president makes those important decisions just because he’s “unhappy”?! For God sake... #Trump #Tarrifs #polUSA

Seriously? meidasnews.com/news/marjori...

I have no words. "Criminal offense of gender identity fraud"...

Voilà.

C’est clair.

Keyword: uncertainty. “So all this is haphazard, messy, whatever adjective you want to apply to it,” he added. “It is a terribly inefficient way to run the government.” www.rawstory.com/trump-sabota...

Every regional Fed interviews lots of business people & others about what's happening & what's changing for them. The Feds roll it all up into their Beige Book report 8 times each year. People are talking about uncertainty now more than anytime in the last 55 years. bsky.app/profile/pear...

We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.

“We now have a habitation economy because most people work at creating, maintaining or improving the soft and hard infrastructure of the communities in which we live. (...) While the old industrial economy is dying, the new habitation society cannot yet be born.” cup.columbia.edu/book/the-hab...?

HAHAHAHA wow.

Pas mal...

Complètement timbré.

Melanie Stansbury ❤️ #SOTU

In new tariff news from this speech, Trump named the EU, China, Brazil, India, Mexico, Canada, and South Korea are the countries for possible April 2nd tariffs—that would cover the vast majority of US trade. He also reiterated he wants tariffs on food to start April 2nd.

#SOTU DOGE : Les économies annoncées sont infinitésimales. Les finances publiques sont des procédures et des écritures comptables complexes et la majorité des économies annoncées oscillent entre erreurs de lecture comptable, clôture fictive de contrats, annulation de dépenses non ordonnancées

Jasmine Crockett's face while waiting for Members of Congress... 😀

Surreal. #polusa #banking #economy101

"Les USA dépendent en partie du pétrole canadien": oui et non. Le diable est dans les détails. Depuis 2020, les USA sont un exportateur net de produits pétroliers.

I learned a new term today: rollup. When an outside investor consecutively acquires many of the small firms in a local market and consolidates them. When this occurs with anesthesia practices, prices increase by 18%. I'm paraphrasing an NBER summary of this paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33217

Pourquoi Trump se contredit-il constamment? Nouvelle analyse sur Classiques & Chaos! 🙂

Canada’s labour market is sounding alarm bells BEFORE the full impact of Trump’s tariffs canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

The new POTUS motto? “Don’t bother me with facts, son. I’ve already made up my mind.” (Foghorn Leghorn)

No comments... www.thedailybeast.com/dems-unveil-...

Not new! In The Political Beliefs of Americans (1967) Cantril & Free found that Americans were "ideological conservatives" opposed to abstract "big government", but "operational liberals" for lots of specific spending. It doesn't help that they have no clue re distribution of spending.

WTF...

Bravo! Montage de François Lorenzetti sur Facebook. #WaPo #WashingtonPost #Censure #polusa #Bezos

📊Multiple polls confirm dramatic shift in momentum, as Liberals close in on Conservatives. 🚨338 Sunday Update: The Liberal Surge Continues → www.338canada.ca/p/338-sunday...

Surprise! #not time.com/7263328/us-a...

Hot damn.

Des désinformateurs employés par nos médias ont déplacé la fenêtre de ce qu’on pouvait dire publiquement, à coups de demi-vérités et de mensonges. C’est le temps de faire le ménage. Mon texte, pour Le Devoir Sortons les trumpagandistes de nos médias www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Quick fact check… 1/ False: “A more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending” GDP tries to measure the value of output produced domestically, that includes goods and services produced domestically and consumed by/invested in by the government

A handful of Republican senators have joined their Democratic colleagues in expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and gutting of USAID, writing to Marco Rubio that they believe the State Department is not operating in accordance with the law.

A great classic by Martin A. Schwartz (2008): “The importance of stupidity in scientific research”: “Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant.”

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

NPS [Feb 12] -- Natl Park Service scrubs "TQ+" from Stonewall National LGBTQ+ Monument in Christopher Park & the accompanying text. Monument to a riot launched by trans women of color like Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P Johnson reads "LGB." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬] [HT @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social‬]

Djezuss...

What a splendid idea!

Little-known economic insecurity phenomenon: “Hidden homelessness, which refers to individuals without permanent addresses who are provisionally accommodated (such as couch surfing), was experienced by 11.2% of households [in Canada].” www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalo...

Mes sources bien informées au Vatican m’indiquent que la Vierge à Fátima n’aurait pas dit aux enfants «Pauvre Canada!» mais bien: «Pauvre USA!» #Trump #apocalypse #jugementdernier

Karima Brikh, c'est le même message que livrerait son époux trumpiste à RDI. C'est un bot-Côté 🙃

Inquiétant «À l’exception de Die Linke et de l’Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), tous les partis s’accordent sur la nécessité d’un réarmement sans précédent dans l’histoire de la République fédérale.» www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2025/02/SCHE...

Both hands (and feet) in the cookie jar! But hey : he's in it for the people... really! As RFK will soon say : Ask not what Elon Musk can do for you – ask what you can do for Elon Musk #whatatimetobealive #dystopia #2025 #polusa #musk #trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

“Over the past decade, SpaceX has earned more than $13 billion in contracts from NASA, second only to the amount awarded to the California Institute of Technology.” abcnews.go.com/US/musk-work...

And it absolutely has nothing to do with ridding himself of all the pesky labor and securities lawsuits (5th circuit cases excepting)

Very comprehensive guide to BlueSky for you, economists colleagues, by @aaronsojourner.org : aaronsojourner.org/for-bluesky-... #econsky

At this point I genuinely don't think it's hyperbole to say that Elon Musk is functionally in charge of the US government. Perhaps not in specific policy areas - two bills or one on the hill, policy in the mideast. But certainly functional control of the state apparatus.