ryan ruffcorn

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

If the USA does not have the will to stop a country that chants “Death To America” from getting a nuclear weapon, I fear for Western Civilization. I already feared for it because we turn away from fights every day that could save it, but this one is really important. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸 @vc]

I’ve introduced a bill to confiscate Bernie’s house. He has 60 days to move out before I put it on the market.

I’ll distribute the proceeds to everyone who votes for my Bill.

Who’s with me?

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

Mr Sanders, you have an insatiable desire to spend other people’s money. It doesn’t grow on trees and it’s not liquid.

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

He’s absolutely correct about this…sounded like a Supply Side Conservative this morning. We need more of this, but not if it’s just performance art to get invited to the Whitehouse. I hope he believes. After all, Trump didn’t invite him to China.

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

I read this in an economic report about Europe.

“Excluding Ireland, GDP is likely to have risen by 0.2% [in Q1], which is a reasonable pace by euro-zone standards.”

My take: if 0.2% is reasonable (less than 1% per year)…then Europe is in serious trouble.

72 years for standards of living to double.

For all of the 1800s, and the first half of the 20th century, annual 4% (or more) GDP growth was normal. Living standards doubled every 18 years.

Now, treading water is considered “reasonable.”

How do you boil a frog? Put it in cool water and then slowly turn up the heat. And when you can’t afford a bigger car, tell yourself you are saving the world from Global Warming.

The reason Europe is growing so slowly, and the reason the US is seeing growth fall toward European levels, is because government is too big.

The more government spends and the more it regulates, the slower economies grow.

[ryan ruffcorn @ruffcorn_ryan]

@goodlobster1 I started crying after line 1

[ryan ruffcorn @ruffcorn_ryan]

A bit of a rough start for the Mustangs as we lost our opening dual meet to W Del 180-168. Congrats to Dawson Fuelling meet medalist with a 38. JV won 199-202. Congrats to Parker Williamson with JV medalist honors firing a 42.

[Hawkeye Nate @HawkeyeNate21]

IOWA LITERALLY OWNS NEBRASKA

[Barstool Iowa @BarstoolUIowa]

WE OWN YOU

WE WILL ALWAYS OWN YOU

@BarstoolHusker

[Owen Siebring @owensiebring]

For the love of Tom Davis! Hawks over Huskers AGAIN!!
For the first time since Dr. Tom's first season in 1987, the Hawkeyes are going to the Elite 8!!
The Huskers went on a 5 minute scoreless stretch in the final minutes (lol), got outscored 15-6 in the final 6 minutes (lolol), and somehow managed to put only 4 players on the floor after a late timeout (lolololol).
Iowa, who's struggled with depth this season, gets 38 points off the bench!
The Hawkeyes, who are a 9-seed, will be the lowest-seeded Big Ten team to EVER compete in the Elite 8!
And most importantly... the Hawkeyes continue to embarrass their neighbors to the west in every meaningful sport hahahaha.

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian is receiving nationwide applause after stripping members of Congress of their special priority privileges in response to the Democrat led shutdown, calling it an “inexcusable” use of TSA agents as political chips.

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

Explain this calculus: We were willing to print and borrow trillions (and accept 9% inflation) to fight a virus which was gong to burn out on its own. But, we fear temporarily higher oil prices to fight a regime that wants to blow us all up.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Why is this is a story? Of course Mamdani’s wife celebrated the Oct 7th attack. The Mamdani’s haven’t hid who they are at all. They are Terrorist sympathizing communists. They wear it loud and proud. Anybody who paid an ounce of attention knew that going in and he still won. That’s the real problem. Not that the terrorist lover is acting like a terrorist lover

[Robert Stein @BobStein_FT]

Study suggests Republican prosecutors reduce risk of black men being killed and white men committing suicide or dying from gun-related accidents.

Tough on crime is good for young men - https://t.co/U7SFxBH5pW

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

In my 40+ years of being an economist, I have never seen the Fed more overtly political. Nor have I seen a battle like this errupt between the Fed and Whitehouse. The Fed has always had an unwritten rule about commenting on fiscal policy issues. It quietly supported TARP. It ignored the Obama tax hikes, and the massive Biden deficits. It ignored millions of illegal immigrants crossing the border. It ignored hundreds of billions in spending and subsidies being shifted toward solar and wind, which are less productive than fossil fuels. It also monetized that spending with Quantitative Easing. It cut rates before the 2024 election (which it has always tried to avoid). Now some on the Fed are saying they want to raise rates due to fears of inflation even though inflation was higher in 2024 when it cut rates. And the Fed can’t shut up about tariffs. It is patently obvious that the Fed has decided to play politics. They will argue that Trump started it. But QE actually started it. The Fed funded big growth in government and deficits. For Kashkari to blame Hassett for undermining Fed independence is laughable. No one should know the names of the people on the Fed…but these people are trying to be controversial. They want to be political. The Fed’s balance sheet must be trimmed…along with many thousands of Fed staff. It is absolutely untrue that the world is safer because of the massive increase in the size of the Fed’s balance sheet. The Fed is full of itself. I want a smaller, humble, quiet and much less active Fed.

[Megan @MeganMakinMoney]

@SenJohnKennedy I agree with this opinion

[Robert Stein @BobStein_FT]

You have to be either incredibly dumb or profoundly evil to compare the US enforcement of immigration law to Nazis hunting down Jews to send to death camps. With @GovTimWalz I’m going to keep assuming “dumb” but I’m increasingly open to “evil.”

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

In 1917, the US bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million…

Danish leaders resisted the sale, so Sec of State Lansing warned that if they didn’t sell, we would simply take them to prevent Germany from gaining a foothold in the Western hemisphere.

They soon sold.

[Brian Wesbury @wesbury]

I am so happy this has finally made it to the top. I have been talking about it for a decade. The Fed is out of control.