For example, “Adequate to accomplish what exactly?
Still, we should all be able to agree that this is not *good* news. She is the author of "“The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.” You're big. Forget about the gross national statistics and all the ridiculous arguing. This makes it more expensive for us to buy goods from overseas, but it makes it easier for us to export goods.There are now economists seeing that such conditions may now be aligning to help Trump's plan for America work to build more of its own stuff.
This has allowed the Fed to drop interest rates to nearly nothing and feel safe to flood the market with dollars.Whether by accident or design, these moves to save our economy have also pushed down what used to be the sky-high value of the dollar. Megan McArdle. Winds NNE at 10 to 15 mph..Mainly cloudy. Notifications from this discussion will be disabled.
Alas, they didn't, and so what may be a belated but entirely sincere embrace of principle instead looks, to outsiders, like situational ethics.All of which is giving Republicans just enough self-justification to keep defending the indefensible. Columnist. The Daily Post Reader Poll for Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7 asks "How optimistic are you on the future of jobs in America?" Sep 03, 2020 Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo @Barbmoss9 And what's the baseline for myocarditis among healthy young athletes? That report provided evidence to suggest that while total U.S. unemployment remains high, the manufacturing and construction industries may be poised for the kind of V-shaped recovery that we haven't seen in decades.This won't immediately help the job prospects for bartenders or flight attendants, but it does raise the possibility that the outlook for jobs may be better in 2021 than anyone expected.A convergence of factors may be why the economy is rebounding much more quickly than predicted, even while the pandemic threat is still here.For sure the housing market is benefiting tremendously from low interest rates. But all of them play to conservatives' wishes.Three very large companies might just be able to turn employees into more responsible consumers. Bio. MEGAN McARDLE: The issue with riots isn’t lives vs. property Rioting ultimately becomes an instrument of suffering and systemic inequality. All while depriving themselves of the means to fight back.Democrats who were happy to ignore Bill Clinton's sexual misconduct so long as he promised to keep abortion legal now really wish they could more credibly claim a long history of caring about corruption and sexual aggression. Please explain. ... Megan McArdle is a Bloomberg View columnist. China has a lot to do with it. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
No one can reasonably believe the president cares about corruption, unless fighting it might help him win elections.Unfortunately, Democratic outrage against political corruption, pretextual investigations and the use of vested powers to help your party win elections sounds a little hollow.
Megan McArdle column: How can Republicans defend Trump?
Yet, on the Republican side, they are still haunting the current impeachment inquiry -- forgotten, but not gone.It is worth recapping just how much misbehavior the Democratic Party pretended was fine during the Clintons' nearly two-decade reign: Hillary Clinton's astonishing luck in the cattle-futures market; Bill Clinton's profligate sexual misbehavior; the renting of the Lincoln Bedroom to donors; the crony pardons; the foundation that appeared to be selling access to Hillary Clinton. Megan McArdle. All these norms and principles and high-flown morals were never real, the thinking goes; they're just strategic weapons. Follow. Most particularly, people named Clinton.
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