Binyamin Appelbaum
Lead Editorial Writer at The New York Times
I write about business and economics for @nytopinion. If you like these tweets, try my book, The Economists' Hour: https://t.co/cAfN0pLSLx
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1 week ago |
econofact.org | Jeremy Stein |Econo Fact |Binyamin Appelbaum |Scott Horsley |Greg Ip
United States Treasury bonds have long been viewed as a highly liquid investment with very little risk of default. They have served as a safe haven for investors and also provided a benchmark interest rate for mortgages, car loans, corporate debt, and other bonds. Typically, Treasury bond yields fall at times of financial stress as demand for Treasury securities rise. But this time is different. Bond prices have fallen and yields have risen in the wake of the policy volatility of the past month.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Binyamin Appelbaum
President Trump says the rest of the world is cheating the United States. He says he's charging tariffs on imports from other countries and the biggest tariffs will be on the worst cheaters. Which country tops Trump's cheating chart? Well, it turns out to be the tiny, landlocked south African kingdom of Lesotho. In 2023, Lesotho exported about $228 million of goods and services to the United States and imported just $7.33 million in goods and services from the United States.
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1 month ago |
econofact.org | Binyamin Appelbaum |Scott Horsley |Greg Ip |Heather Long
Labeled by The Economist as ‘the envy of the world,’ in October 2024, the US economy today is marked by growing fears of a recession amid aggressive tariffs, threats of tariffs, deregulation, and drastic employment cuts across the federal government. Despite the short-term pain, could the Trump administration’s policies make the US economy stronger and more productive over the long run? Or is lasting turbulence, lower productivity and economic stagnation a more likely outcome?
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2 months ago |
nytimes.com | Binyamin Appelbaum |Patrick Healy |Vishakha Darbha
The New York Times Opinion writer Binyamin Appelbaum has been writing and thinking about President Trump's economic policy since his first term in office. In this episode of "The Opinions," he joins the deputy Opinion editor Patrick Healy to talk tariffs, economic expansion and Trump's recklessness. Trump Is Failing the Marshmallow Test. Again. Binyamin Appelbaum and Patrick Healy sit down to discuss President Trump's reckless approach to trade and the economy.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
nytimes.com | Binyamin Appelbaum |Adam Westbrook
Every year, millions of Americans bounce around the country like electrons, moving from one state to another. But there are patterns in this chaos, and one of the clearest in recent decades is that Americans are moving from blue states to red states. As the Opinion video above explains, that has some big political implications for the Democrats.
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RT @YAppelbaum: 1. This is the chart that—more than anything else—explains what’s gone wrong in the United States. Fifty years ago, one out…
The animating principle of the Democratic Party is that government can improve the lives of the American people. The housing crisis is manifest proof that government is failing to do so. https://t.co/qbGyaMGc4v
I was under the impression that it's only an official legally binding definitely happening policy if the president tweets it. Does Truth Social have the same status? Legal scholars please weigh in.
