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Singh promises a family doctor for every Canadian during campaign stop in St. John's
During his campaign stop in St. John's, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said his government would recruit thousands of doctors, as well as support local fisherman and workers in the face of Trump's tariff threats. Despite low polling, Singh said there is no chanc...
#politics #election #healthcare #economics #StJohns #Atlantic
cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundlan

Lutnick: "What's happened to the world is the global governments have backed taking our factories away from us. I mean, there's nothing about Taiwan that they should be making semi-conductors. There's nothing about Korea that they should be making all the appliances."

Huh.
So just making shit up can create a $5 trillion problem for the USA over just 2 days? And much more for the entire world?

Who could possibly have known?

rawstory.com/trump-tariffs-267

The capital A Asshole who did this just got out of jail, then was relied upon to craft Trump's tariff policy.

Nice move, Very Smart Guy Donald Trump.

Raw Story · 'Doesn’t exist!’ Maddow exposes Trump ally who invented expert — using anagram of his nameBy Erik De La Garza
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“Ignore the Greek letters, which cancel each other out. This says that the assumed level of a country’s protectionism is equal to its trade surplus with America divided by its exports to America.”

“There’s so much wrong with this approach that it’s hard to know where to start.”

From #PaulKrugman post:
Will Malignant Stupidity Kill the World Economy?

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wil