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Alan Rappeport

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Economic Policy reporter at The New York Times. Formerly @FT; @MarjorieDeane alum @TheEconomist @LSEECHist. [email protected]. 🔁/❤️ ≠ endorsement

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NEW: G7 backs plan for ‘side-by-side’ tax system to avoid U.S. fight. “Delivery of a side-by-side system will facilitate further progress to stabilize the international tax system," draft statement says. w/ Colby Smith nytimes.com/2025/06/27/bus…

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Canada is engaged in complex negotiations on a new economic and security partnership with the U.S. Rescinding the DST will allow the negotiations to make vital progress and reinforce our work to create jobs and build prosperity for all Canadians. 🔗canada.ca/en/department-…

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Bessent avoids answering a question about his interest in being Fed chair, tells Bloomberg TV it is up to Trump and adds: "We will be working on chair Powell's successor over the coming weeks and months."

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Bessent: "We have seen no inflation from tariffs. If we do, which we don't have to, then there'd be a one time price adjustment. Nothing is more transitory than that."

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Bessent: The Fed made mistakes in 2022 by delaying rate hikes and may be making the opposite mistake now by waiting too long to cut rates. 6X

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"Washington has not exactly won a reputation for fiscal discipline over the last few decades... but the legislation that Republicans passed through the Senate on Tuesday stands apart in its harm to the budget." Good piece from Andy Duehren: nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/…

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"[I]f Trump had simply stayed in the TPP, almost all tariffs on US exports to ...Vietnam...would today be at or rapidly approaching zero. Other barriers to American goods, services, digital trade, and investment would have been eliminated too" cato.org/commentary/rei…

"[I]f Trump had simply stayed in the TPP, almost all tariffs on US exports to ...Vietnam...would today be at or rapidly approaching zero. Other barriers to American goods, services, digital trade, and investment would have been eliminated too" cato.org/commentary/rei…
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Trump inks a trade deal with Vietnam -- his second so far -- with 90 deals in 90 days deadline a week away. nytimes.com/2025/07/02/bus…

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"We're never going to have to listen to this twaddle again that these are the biggest tax cuts in history because it's going to become the baseline -- they are permanent."

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NEW: Fireworks are big shows of patriotism in the US, but they all come from China. Now Trump, who loves pyrotechnics, faces a trade dilemma as his tariffs threaten to snuff the industry out. nytimes.com/2025/07/03/bus…

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CNBC: Can you be a Fed Chair and Treasury Secretary at the same time? BESSENT: It hasn't been done since 1930-something CNBC: That was not a no BESSENT: ...

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The White House isn’t too sympathetic: “Real prosperity and patriotism isn’t celebrating the independence of our country with cheap foreign-made firecrackers and trinkets — it’s having a country with booming Main Streets, a thriving working class, and robust manufacturing.”