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Furman wrote a forty page paper on income inequality rising under his tenure in 2016. And the problem has exasperated since then causing societal instability. Yet, he still has zero credible solutions on how to address the problem.

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Let us not lose sight of the context - the Trump second term visa-a--vis all normal presidencies, including that of Biden. I have an uncomfortable feeling that we will be asking ourselves soon why we were so focused on arranging the deck chairs when the ship of state had clearly struck an iceberg.

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Nice post, thank you. Shows what happens when people try to come up with honest assessments of policies.

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There seems to be a strain of Dem and liberal commentary more interested in denigrating Biden than opposing MAGA. Furman seems to be one of those.

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Thanks Jared.

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Very disappointed in Furman for giving them this ammunition, based on an outlier deflator.

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"profusely cites Jason’s takedown of Bidenomics to defend their work"

the "turtles all the way down" approach to economic analysis citation

see also RW analysis of the immigration issue

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