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Trump floats concept of eliminating the income tax and replacing it with tariffs

Even libertarian douchebag and alleged STEM degree Massie on board….  Would need a big GOP sweep to get it passed….I guess the tax elimination is going to over ride the debt doomsday thesis of these libertarian morons in their pea brains….  Hard to understand how their brains work….I’d  take it…  we could get rid of the tax but they would still be stupid…Can’t have everything…👍Most intriguing policy idea from the GOP meeting at the Capitol Hill Club this morning:Trump briefly floated the...

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IMF: Dollar’s “stealth erosion” in global reserves by other currencies—Serkan Arslanalp, Barry Eichengreen, Chima Simpson-Bell

Taking a longer view, over the last two decades, the fact that the value of the US dollar has been broadly unchanged, while the US dollar’s share of global reserves has declined, indicates that central banks have indeed been shifting gradually away from the dollar.BNEIMF: Dollar’s "stealth erosion" in global reserves by other currenciesSerkan Arslanalp for the IMF, Barry Eichengreen, Chima Simpson-Bell

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MMT — the key insights — Lars P. Syll

As has become abundantly clear during the last couple of years, it is obvious that most mainstream economists seem to think that Modern Monetary Theory is something new that some wild heterodox economic cranks have come up with. That is actually very telling about the total lack of knowledge of their own discipline’s history these modern mainstream guys like Summers, Rogoff and Krugman have.New? Cranks? Reading one of the founders of neoclassical economics, Knut Wicksell, and what he wrote...

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