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Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump's Fed nominee (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/02/05/untangling-the-ideas-of-donald-trumps-fed-nominee
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p101#a260205p101

For all of Donald Trump’s promises of an economic “golden age,”
a spate of weak indicators this week told a worrisome story as the impacts of his policies are coming into focus.
Job gains are dwindling.
Inflation is ticking upward.
Growth has slowed compared with last year.
More than six months into his term, Trump’s blitz of tariff hikes and his new tax and spending bill have remodeled America’s trading, manufacturing, energy and tax systems to his own liking.

It's Trump's economy now. The latest financial numbers offer some warning signs
President Donald Trump's economic policies are facing scrutiny as weak indicators emerge. Job gains are dwindling, inflation is rising and growth has slowed compared to last year. More than six months into his term, Trump's tariffs and tax changes have reshaped the economy. On Friday, a bleak jobs report showed a decline in manufacturing jobs, and Trump fired the head of the agency responsible for the data. Critics warn that Trump's aggressive use of tariffs and tax changes could backfire. The …

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

5. “But what are we supposed to do exactly?!” − Fight for digital sovereignty. Fight for a more independent financial system. Stop honoring US pharma patents. Form large coalitions to threaten economic sanctions. Limit travel, or increase the friction of it. Target the comfort of the billionaires who are bankrolling this. There is a long list of actions countries can take if •and only if• their populations create the political pressure for it.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

The Trump White House is changing the rules of our political system
through intimidation,
the distortion of information,
financial corruption,
and the dismantling of government offices.
In the final episode of this season, we examine whether the administration is also trying to change the rules of our elections.
Dawn Baldwin Gibson, a North Carolina pastor, tells us about how, in 2024,
her vote was challenged for reasons that still aren’t clear to …

How Autocrats Meddle With Elections
The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.

Trump's coercive policies, including his latest threats against Greenland,
are prompting some foreign investors to think twice about parking their money with Uncle Sam.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial…

How Trump Is Debasing the Dollar and Eroding U.S. Economic Dominance
John Cassidy on how the Trump Administration’s policies are affecting the worth of the U.S. dollar, which influences the market’s pull with foreign investors.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Consistent with the United States’ continued slide into an economy powered almost entirely by LLM slop, financialization, and ever-pervasive exploitative gambling,
“prediction market app” Kalshi “entered into an official partnership” with CNN this week
to bring their “data to CNN’s journalism across its television, digital and social channels.”
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events
where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smart phones.
…

CNN partners with Kalshi, a gambling app that lets you wager on starvation in Gaza
The network will integrate betting odds for life-and-death issues into its coverage. What could possibly go wrong?

The $59 million price tag for
"Operation Midway Blitz"
A Tribune analysis of the Trump administration's Chicago-area immigration crackdown
provides one of the first examinations of Operation Midway Blitz’s financial impact on the federal government.
The back-of-the-envelope estimate is a conservative analysis of the full costs.
Federal officials are not eager to address the fiscal cost of
"Operation Midway Blitz"
-- the months…