Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst at Washington Examiner
Michael Barone is Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner. Emeritus status, AEI. Author: Mental Maps of the Founders (November 2023)
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1 week ago |
washingtonexaminer.com | Michael Barone
It hardly qualifies as news anymore, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership declined from 2023 to 2024, going from 10% to 9.9% of wage and salary workers. Some 32% of public employees are union members compared to only 5.9% of private sector workers, down from 6.0% in 2023. This means 49% of all union members work for the government and, even more striking, 32% belong to the two national teachers unions.
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1 week ago |
dailyherald.com | Michael Barone
It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries' trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different words — say, “buyer-dominant” countries and “seller-dominant” countries.
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2 weeks ago |
arcamax.com | Michael Barone
It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries' trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different words -- say, "buyer-dominant" countries and "seller-dominant" countries.
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2 weeks ago |
washingtonexaminer.com | Michael Barone
It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9,to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries’ trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised different words — say, “buyer-dominant” countries and “seller-dominant” countries.
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2 weeks ago |
theitem.com | Michael Barone
Is President Donald Trump bent on political self-harm? It often seems that way. His overall job approval rating still hovers within a point or two of the 50% popular vote he received last November. But he is losing support on the economy and inflation, the No. 1 issue last year, while his overwhelming success in reducing illegal immigration has reduced the salience of what was the No. 2 issue. Meanwhile, he is taking positions that a critical majority of voters consider simple lunacy.
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A belated appreciation of Joe Klein's common sense on the cross-border connectedness of the auto industry: "hopelessly, and happily, international." https://t.co/eEyZGr9ilV This goes back, as I've written, to 1965. https://t.co/h9HrRVuCEv
Private sector union membership keeps declining, despite Democrats' attempts to encourage it. I try to put that in historic perspective--and to contrast teacher unions' success in forcing school closures and how it's hurt disadvantaged kids. https://t.co/Y7ueZpXYKm
An excellent suggestion from Andrew Young, at age 93: let's have a memorial to the Adamses, John and Abigail, John Quincy and Louisa. https://t.co/0hCqX2z222