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Trump Rx: It Doesn’t Help Patients, but Gets Trump’s Name on Something (see correction)
Trump Rx is a branding exercise that leaves patients paying more for drugs while delivering no real savings.
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Article • Dean Baker’s Beat the Press
Oren Cass Uses Good Economics in Attacking Finance in NYT
The US financial sector has grown far beyond what efficiency requires, creating massive waste that sensible reforms could sharply reduce.
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Justifying High Drug Prices: The Bozos Who Run Jeff Bezos’ Opinion Page
The Washington Post’s defense of high drug prices ignores basic arithmetic showing patent monopolies mainly enrich executives and investors, not medical research.
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Thoughts on the Delayed SCOTUS Ruling on Trump’s Tariffs
The Court’s pause likely signals concern about how future Trump tariffs should be handled during litigation, not doubt about striking them down.
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Donald Trump Says His Team are Total Morons: Can’t Find Millions of Illegal Voters
The Trump–Musk theory of mass non-citizen voting collapses under basic logic and overwhelming evidence.
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Trump’s Incompetence Leaves Tens of Thousands in Red States Without Power
Trump’s neglect of storm-hit Red States reveals how his attacks on government capacity leave even his own supporters unprotected in disasters.
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Unmask ICE!
Masked ICE operations signal a move toward an unaccountable federal enforcement force.
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China is Running Out of People, Again
Warnings of an “existential” population crisis in China collapse once productivity growth and basic demographic arithmetic are taken seriously.
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Trump Lawsuits: The Most Efficient Grift Ever
Donald Trump’s latest lawsuit underscores how presidential power is being used to extract billions from taxpayers for personal gain.
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The AI Bubble #24,736: Consumption Is Outrunning Wages
A growing AI bubble is inflating consumption far beyond wages, setting the stage for a sharp recession when it collapses.
