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Robert Stein

@bobstein_ft

Deputy Chief Economist at First Trust, Former DAS for MacroEcon at Treasury, Former Chief Economist at Senate Budget, class traitor, knee-jerk heretic, Zionist

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Ended up being a pretty good estimate. However, there’s a great deal of luck involved when you get it exactly right.

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NEW: as expected, TX Republicans unveil a 30R-8D gerrymander (up from 25R-13D today) that puts Reps. Henry Cuellar (D) and Vicente Gonzalez (D) in double-digit Trump districts and axes one Dem seat each in DFW, Houston & Austin/San Antonio.

NEW: as expected, TX Republicans unveil a 30R-8D gerrymander (up from 25R-13D today) that puts Reps. Henry Cuellar (D) and Vicente Gonzalez (D) in double-digit Trump districts and axes one Dem seat each in DFW, Houston & Austin/San Antonio.
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ā€œKamala Harris will not run for California governor, opening door for 2028 runā€ washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

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Split the difference….call them the Braves, which is what they were before the Redskins, but bring back the logo, uniforms, and fight song.

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Motivation amongst Israeli teens to draft into combat units and elite combat units in the IDF has dramatically risen — for both boys and girls. That’s according to an inspiring report in ×™×©×Ø××œ היום, which examined IDF data on the latest recruitment rounds. Here’s what the

Motivation amongst Israeli teens to draft into combat units and elite combat units in the IDF has dramatically risen — for both boys and girls. That’s according to an inspiring report in <a href="/IsraelHayomHeb/">×™×©×Ø××œ היום</a>, which examined IDF data on the latest recruitment rounds.

Here’s what the
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Soft headlines on the labor market, consistent with weak 1.2% annualized economic growth in the first half of the year. HOWEVER, new policies that strictly enforce immigration laws are probably also weighing-down the job numbers. Nonfarm payrolls increased 73K in July,

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Firing the BLS Commissioner for weak payroll numbers is dumb. The weakness is largely due to stricter immigration enforcement. What do you expect to happen to the payroll numbers when you go from net immigration flows of about 2.5 million per year to roughly zero? Instead of

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Federal Reserve governor to resign early, handing Trump an immediate opening on board washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

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Why haven't the Trump tariffs led to a Smoot-Hawley-style vicious cycle of escalting tariffs? The key is that in 1930, the US had a trade SURPLUS in goods equal to about 1% of GDP; in 2024 the US had a trade DEFICIT in goods of about 4% of GDP. When we run a trade surplus,