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Yes, I'm being "hysterical." Meanwhile, you can't think about anything from a viewpoint that is not your own. Which is pretty obvious from your "why don't they just move if they aren't treated fairly" solution.

There's a gotta be a term for when you make groups of people migrate to be secure in their person on the basis of their race, gender, religion or other characteristics...

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What of DC, with only slightly greater population than Wyoming??

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I think it's pretty clear what happens in the first two years of Trump. First, he inherits a pretty strong economy, but also one tiring near the end of the cycle. He gets the benefit of some initial exuberance, especially from investors who are hopeful he's going to do what they want. Then he gets sugar highs into the economy from two sources: first, a tax cut that puts a couple trillion dollars in the hands of corporations and wealthy individuals, something that won't have a long term effect but does put some money out there, and second, a bunch of economic shifts that occur in anticipation of a trade war - things like the Chinese stocking up on soy just before the tariffs hit (and that series of purchases added nearly a full percent to GDP in a single quarter).

Unfortunately, besides these just being sugar highs, we're also seeing the slow gutting of the jobs created by the ACA, hitting on a state-by-state basis.

So, in the second two years, he has to move from sugar highs to coke highs or he has to deal with some of the inevitable retrenching, like post-Brownback Kansas. Guess which one he is going to go for?

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Obviously, DC should be merged into Wyoming, and they should vote together.

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I think he's fucked it up, but you don't yet see it because he's got some short term fixes in there.

Winter is coming.

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I skimmed what you sent. The Investors Business Daily said 45 had "reversed all of Obama's economics policies." Um. No.

All of them started with the silly premise the presidents drive economic growth, when they simply do not.

45 added a massive, debt-financed tax cut as fiscal stimulus to an already growing economy that has not yet led to the Fed to change its course (if it does, that may well be the trigger to the next recession). Contra the IVB editorial, I don't think Obama would ever have argued that a big fiscal stimulus would do nothing for growth. But I do think he would have argued that it was irresponsible, unfair, shortsighted and inappropriate in a growing economy.

But hey, if 45 is going to go all MMT and believe deficits don't matter at all, then fine. It isn't going to look that way when McConnell comes for Nana's Medicare in December.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Team Hank on this one.

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New board motto!

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Yes, getting angry at the people who admitted Wyoming to the Union is obviously the most productive thing to do now.

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Is that what he meant? Huh. I thought he was saying that it’s probably not a good idea to change the rules re each state having two senators irregardless (I miss dtb) of population.

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or like, PR? Ty says "no! Unless you got 40 million people FUCK YOU! .......No Senators for you!"

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My point is I can leave my firm, or work with the partners that have also been voted in, under the rules that were set. No point regretting these votes to let the dead beats in- water under bridge- although if half these schmucks want to leave the firm I ain't starting no war to keep them, I'll promise you that.

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In that case, I agree. Not sure we would write the rules the same way now, but trying to change them is a fool's errand.

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Come on, Hank. There are ways to squeeze them out. If you really need to, introduce a two-tiered partnership approach. Shrink comp for the bottom of the stack. Cut support. Charge-back associate time or other things.

After all, you're the Man.

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it was an analogy, or wait, a whatsit, a simile?