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Not sure I can eat turkey tomorrow as I'm all stuffed already. Stuffed with Fed officials pre-announcing what they'll do at the December FOMC meeting. It may feel good at the moment, but the Fed's communication strategy is in dire need of a diet.
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If it moves, tax it! x.com/staunovo/statu…

Alan Blinder hopes SCOTUS blocks a president from firing a Fed governor. Constitutionally: Congress controls money, so removing a governor should require impeachment. But the Fed also supervises banks,and the president should be able to remove a regulator. wsj.com/opinion/a-supr…

If you like import duties, you’ll love export duties.

Foreign tourists will now pay higher fees to visit National Parks (tourism counts as an export in the balance of trade).
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Kevin Warsh is the man for the job. He is the only one of the Fed candidates who has preached overhauling the Fed for years, getting it out of adventures that make it too complex. Ivory tower academics have not realized how much harm the ample reserve regime has caused. x.com/DeItaone/statu…

"focus on the basics: sound fiscal and sound monetary policy. Without tackling those, we will always try to fix that latest symptom, invoking the law of unintended consequences that ultimately make things worse" 👇 x.com/AxelMerk/statu…

Countries like a weak currency to boost export. Conventional wisdom suggests it's not inflationary in a somewhat closed economy like the US. Except a weak currency policy puts the family silver is on sale as foreigners can more easily scoop up domestic assets.