I'm one of the 37 targeted below by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. I haven't had a clearance nor worked in government since 2013. This is political theater & a dangerous government abuse of power to punish private citizens for openly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. My full statement:
@DanielDiMartino To be honest, the fact he's so incompetent likely means he doesn't have the intellectual horsepower to durably alter the BLS methodology.
Could create a fake statistic like for tariffs calculation (less bad) or stop releasing the data altogether (very bad).
Trade arbitrage opportunity for the EU: export everything through French oversees territories as many are somehow tariffed at a different/lower rate than the EU π€
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
@JamesSurowiecki Indeed, rechecked the numbers. https://t.co/jbzA38ioh7
Correlation is 99.7%, and probably because i am using a different data source.
This is crazy! Also probably the weird sorting order can be explained by trade deficit.
Because Jay Powell and the Fed failed to stop the problem they created with Inflation, I will do it by unleashing American Energy production, slashing Regulation, rebalancing International Trade, and reigniting American Manufacturing, but I will do much more than stopping Inflation, I will make our Country financially, and otherwise, powerful again! The Fed has done a terrible job on Bank Regulation. Treasury is going to lead the effort to cut unnecessary Regulation, and will unleash lending for all American people and businesses. If the Fed had spent less time on DEI, gender ideology, βgreenβ energy, and fake climate change, Inflation would never have been a problem. Instead, we suffered from the worst Inflation in the History of our Country!
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