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1/Let's have a little chat about capital gains taxes, shall we?Biden wants to raise capital gains taxes for high-income people. This is a good move.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-29/dogecoin-is-one-reason-not-to-worr

This post seems to just be saying that liberals are much more fired-up than conservatives these days. Which seems true! But why? My hypothesis: Conservative ideology has drifted toward things

1/Let's talk about why the debate over what constitutes "infrastructure" is pointless.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-09/the-meaning-of-infrastructure-is-a-pointless-debate?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/Opponents of Biden

1/Let's talk about the two-track economy that I think Bidenomics is trying to create.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-12/beating-china-won-t-help-biden-reach-full-u-s-employment?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/Basically the idea is th

1/As COVID recedes, the world is going to remember that it was in a state of unrest before the virus struck -- and that that unrest never really went away.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-great-protest-wave

1/Alright, gather round, friends, and let me tell you the story of 1930s Japan, and how it's a cautionary tale for 2020s America.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/japanese-lessons-for-the-american 2/Everyone knows that Japan became mili

Matt Yglesias is right that gun control is not a great issue for the Dems. But while he emphasizes the optics of the issue, I have a different argument: I

1/OK so people wanted a thread on how 2010s America is becoming 1990s Japan, so here we go.The most obvious similarity is economic. Japan had a giant real estate bubble

1/OK, so, I don't know much about British politics, and have no reason to defend the Labour Party or Jeremy Corbyn, but I did notice something annoying about the allegations

1/The Middle East is now a big mess of proxy wars, so here's a random thread about that.With the U.S. having withdrawn, the Syrian Civil War is pretty much a

1/In today's @bopinion post, I discuss the challenge from the Chinese model of political economy. Has China found a more effective way to run a country? (Maybe.)And if so, what

1/I see that there are still a few people shrieking their heads off about how voting Trump out of office will lead to America being overrun by hordes of migrants.Luckily,