There is talk that some state-elected cabinet members might try to keep Trump off the primary ballot using the 14th Amendment. State elected. National ballot.
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An essay by Astra Taylor in the New York Times opens with this sentence; “Since 2020, the richest 1 percent has captured nearly two-thirds of all new wealth globally — almost twice as much money as the rest of the world’s population”
Nobel-laureate emeritus, Vernon Smith composed this in response:
"The opening sentence implies that wealth is produced independently of human action which is devoted mainly to capturing it. If that is your understanding of the world you can only feel insecure, fear it, and write of your terror.
And what does it reveal about the NYTimes that it wallows and champions this perspective? A truly dedicated mission to spread gloom and unhappiness. It is one thing to report bad news, it’s another to glory in it."
Envy is making a good run at mendacity as the nation's defining quality. Here it masquerades as economic theory. (Just can't escape the mendacity.) There's a charming Old World quality about income disparity where, like the Third World, the spread is between people with everything versus those with nothing. And, somehow, this correlates with a guy driving an F-150 not having a Dreamliner.
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