Blog Notes

A combination of house guests, a local power outage — and now a computer malfunction means blogging will be slow for the next couple of days — my apologies!

12 Replies to “Blog Notes”

  1. I blame global warming, Doug Ford, Jason Kenny, and Hitler Harper. Just more evidence that Nazis are running rampant in Canada.

      1. The CBC featured that gay coin in their online news site, under the Kid’s news section. A kid with two dads liked it.

  2. Trumponomics continues to fail.

    https://reason.com/2019/04/22/trumps-washing-machine-tariffs-cleaned-out-consumers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FArticles+%28Reason+Online+-+All+Articles+%28except+Hit+%26+Run+blog%29%29

    “All told, those tariffs raised about $82 million for the U.S. Treasury but ended up increasing costs for consumers by about $1.2 billion during 2018 economists Aaron Flaaen, Ali Hortacsu, and Felix Tintelnot conclude. Although the trade policy did cause some manufacturers to shift production from overseas to the United States in an effort to avoid the new tariffs, the 1,800 jobs created by Trump’s washing machine tariffs cost consumers an estimated $820,000 per job.”

    1. More TDS on display…Retailers raise prices on non tariffed items and its Trumps fault.
      Did the $1.2 billion disappear into thin air? How much was taxed back? How much was re-invested? How much was spent on Main st.?
      Pretty lame analysis by a bunch of University of Chicago economists.

      1. “Retailers raise prices on non tariffed items and its Trumps fault.”

        YES THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CONSTRAIN COMPETITION

        “Did the $1.2 billion disappear into thin air?

        Worse, it ended up in the government’s pocket.

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