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Retired. Former Senior Analyst, SEC Division of Investment Management. Affiliations: @OpenArmsHousing and @actfortransit. It's not the 1950s any more. He/Him
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Paying more or gasoline (for example) is highly visible to the voter. Increasing the Federal budget deficit to subsidize battery production, solar projects, wind projects is practically invisible.
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Yes, some. But the main tactic is subsidies. When we start taking measures to make our society less auto-dependent, then I'll be impressed. And I know carbon taxes are discredited but I retain my naive faith that the best way to discourage behavior you don't want is to make it more expensive.
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Oversimplifying a bit, left wants to do something in theory except if it costs money or is inconvenient. Right denies climate change exists or admits it does exist but won't even consider doing something about it. Meanwhile, no outdoor exercise for me.
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Sports reporters actually describe what is going on. When there's a game in which the home team stinks, they say so. Political reporters, on the other hand ...
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🎯 The media *should* know, but they don't. Aside from all the oft-repeated explanations of economic interests/clicks/etc., it is difficult for humans to cast of a worldview that has been instilled in them for decades by professional education, peer pressure, and society at large.
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Thank-you.
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Elect presidents by popular vote. Abolish the Senate. (At the *very* least, abolish the filibuster & make DC and PR states and force N & S Dakota to recombine). Abolish the electoral college. Institute automatic universal voter registration. That would be a good start.
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Obama's first debate against Mitt Romney "went poorly." This was much worse. I will still walk over broken glass to vote for Biden but let's look reality in the eye.
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Most species have an instinct for self preservation. And then there are journalists.
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I will always be mad that liberals/the left/Democrats refused to make the Supreme Court a big enough issue in 2016. (It was the Rs #1 or close to #1 issue. It was perhaps the Ds issue #6)
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The legal profession has a lot to answer for. (Yes, not all lawyers, etc. etc.)
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
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We are now back to the philosophy of; "The government that governs best governs least."
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Like DC, southern efficiency and northern charm. (Yes, I live in Maryland.)
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Exactly. Josh Marshall did a piece on this.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-dif...
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Excellent. Now I can unsubscribe to Bloomberg dot com. 😉
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If they knew what's good for them, corporate leaders would hang together, else they will hang separately.
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A nice dialogue.
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Sounds about right.
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"It's hard to say what the upside is here beyond shit posting. It's certainly not fun at scale." 🎯
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Sort of like the term leverage a as a verb. Just say use or capitalize on.
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With logic like this, it is understandable why the legal profession has such a great reputation.
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For this court, that's a feature, not a bug.
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As a Federal employees I couldn't accept anything more than coffee and a muffin at an industry conference.
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Time to post the 10 commandments in Supreme Court chamber. Perhaps that will help them remember 'thou shall not steal.'
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For what it's worth, the national science foundation found that 26 percent of those surveyed incorrectly answered the question "Does the earth revolve around the sun or vice versa?"
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Maybe it would be nice to reduce the number of topics in life for which one is told "yes, it's the truth but you shouldn't say it."
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"Law and order."
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Cancel culture.
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I campaign message must be repeated so many times that the person saying it gets totally sick of it. Maybe at that point it might be starting to get through to the general public.
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Sometimes that; sometimes they see the alternative and don't like it. Unfortunately, it's often difficult to distinguish one from the other.
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Agree. Also true in reverse. Our political/social environment is not solely the result of evil corporations/unions/special interests. (For example, to a significant degree we remain an automobile-dominated/sprawl dominated CO2-spewing society because that's what the general public wants.)
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OK, that's fair.
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Merit pay for police.
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I'm a retired financial regulator, so I've been following this for years, but I can assure you none of my friends/acquaintances have ever heard of Chevron, or has any idea of the issues that overturn would affect.
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There's the cognoscenti and there's everyone else.
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This is not an exaggeration. It's also why Federal employees tend to be more upset than most about Republicans' in-your-face corruption.
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You'll miss the regulatory state when it's gone.
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Issues: Here's an example
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/n...
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I dunno. The actually existing public housing that I was familiar with before I left NYC had lots of issues.
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Not bad for a finance/business media giant.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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This article is "If my mother had wings she could fly."
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We were being subsidized by venture capitalists who invested in companies who were losing money on every purchase and making it up on volume (humor). Eventually their patience wore out. Thus the big increases in price.
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Sounds like e. bruenig would like to move to Iran.
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Any corporate executive or financier who does want Joe Biden to be re-elected is an ingrate.
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I recall that "Democrats for Reagan" was pretty effective back in the day.
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Labor has not distinguished itself on this issue.
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Ugh, the teacher union opposed it as well. www.uft.org/news/news-st...
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Thank-you.
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