…Canada, and China (when adding imports and exports). Mexico became the nation’s top trading partner for the first time. Trade with the top six trading partners accounted for 48% of…

…American,” March 24, 2026, Professor Heather Cox Richardson This morning, economist Paul Krugman came right out and said it: “People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets.” Another…

Brad DeLong offers a long post on economists on the Romney team. THINGS WRONG WITH HASSETT, HUBBARD, MANKIW, AND TAYLOR, “THE ROMNEY PROGRAM FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY, GROWTH, AND JOBS” Notes…

…one year’s cost for the program, the program might well be in a position of having negative cash flow on a permanent basis. This would occur when the interest rate…

…that the Greek policy prescription is not working (bold by yours truly): The growth and fiscal policy adjustments assumed under the program individually have precedent in other countries’ experience, but…

…program for those persons who still have not come forward. Many practitioners with clients who may decide to participate in this second program had hoped that another would be offered…

…is a program that works, and it’s going to be–it’s fully funded for the next 40 years. Stop picking on Social Security. There are a lot places we can go…

…or summit to cut Social Security benefits, and that the campaign rhetoric was just a sop to anesthetize opposition. This for a program that, at worst, faces a shortfall 30…

…equal to program costs. This would have the effect of changing a worker financed ‘entitlement’ program into a pure welfare program that increasingly would be justified simply on the basis…

…Wall Street on what has gotta be the most generous welfare program in history. But most of his speech is on the military, and how freedom is on the march….