• someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    It’s always fun to go into some ghoul’s wikipedia entry and discover that they’re even worse people than one expected them to be, even after wikipedia’s typical whitewashing of ghouls’ resumes. These are just a few of the highlights that caught my eye and sometimes dropped my jaw.

    He was chief international economist at Bear Stearns from 1993 to 2002, and chief economist from 2002 to the firm’s collapse in 2008.

    In August 2007, before the housing market collapse that triggered the 2008 financial crisis, Malpass wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that “Housing and debt markets are not that big a part of the U.S. economy, or of job creation … the housing- and debt-market corrections will probably add to the length of the U.S. economic expansion.”

    His September 1, 2016 op-ed in The New York Times, “Why This Economy Needs Donald Trump”, described potential faster growth through a policy upheaval covering economic policy, taxes, trade, and regulations.

  • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    You can’t have a rogue state with plutonium,

    Except the US, IL, FR, UK.

    and you can’t block the Strait of Hormuz

    One can do it while the other failed.