Alexander C. Kafka

The lesson for retirees: Don’t let the income-tax tail wag the total-spending dog.  https://t.co/XzT3wB6wLf

“As any emerging nation can attest, though, the combination of stocks, bonds and the currency selling off together is the scariest spectacle in financial markets.” https://t.co/Uo5UL4h7Bn

RT @PaulleyTicks: Fixed it. #Tariffs https://t.co/0BWa0dY8jn

RT @HankeVela: Brussels is watching amazed, as Trump destroys the US economy. "Nobody in the Commission thought that the US government wou…

RT @AC360: "This could not be more stupid": Scott Galloway, host of "The Prof G Pod" on President Trump's tariffs. https://t.co/9HHylLzwOc

RT @PeterSchiff: If Trump's secret agenda is to crash the stock market to bring down long-term interest rates, the plan already failed. The…

“…a failure to look around corners—which is hardly new in the American presidency. Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in June 1930, thinking they would help create jobs, then went fishing. They instead accelerated the Great Depression.” https://t.co/2SesMyrNP7

“Under the First Amendment, if the government opens its doors to some journalists—be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere—it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists because of their viewpoints. The Constitution requires no less.” https://t.co/7kFjEiywX2

“I’ve been thinking about this case as an emblem of everything that makes Donald Trump’s presidency so vile and destructive, even when I’ve bent over backward to give him the benefit of the doubt.” https://t.co/G4HUpGzvt5

!! The twin couples now live in adjacent apartment units in Goodyear, Arizona. The sisters are both pharmacy technicians at the same CVS, and the brothers are studying film at Huntington University at Arizona. https://t.co/up2FYVll6O

“Nostalgia is not a plan. It’s a mirror turned backward. Trump is not bringing back the dignity of work — he’s marketing the image of it.” https://t.co/vNDOFTwOXg

“The Romans had a saying: Let them hate us as long as they fear us. But part of our superpower has derived from being admired too. In the end, as the Romans discovered, you don’t want to be around when they still hate you but they no longer fear you.” https://t.co/CLMlHzLW7h

RT @BillAckman: I just figured out why @howardlutnick is indifferent to the stock market and the economy crashing. He and Cantor are long b…

2 scientists involved in the specialized process of preparing cells for patients’ treatments were fired in the probationary purge. 9 highly skilled scientists on the team have appointments that need to be renewed, but with no assurance they will be. https://t.co/uM0TusgaKZ

RT @LHSummers: This is a moment of testing for @realDonaldTrump's advisors. The intellectually honest ones know that this reflects the Pres…

Trump and his tariffs have taken a bull stock market and are on the precipice of turning it into a bear faster than any president has overseen in modern history. https://t.co/QoNEodCk9h

RT @nfergus: “The president stands as much chance of reindustrializing the U.S. as you do of getting your frozen laptop to work by smashing…