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Where Are the New Jobs?

POITOU, FRANCE – A new Diary dictum: A new administration can only do good by undoing the good things that previous administrations claimed to do. That is, it does not do good by adding programs of its own. It can only make…

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Deep State First

POITOU, FRANCE – On Monday, Donald Trump, president of all the Americans, said his country would spend more blood and money trying to force the Afghans to do what it wants them to do, whatever that is. And so… a…

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Trump is no outsider

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – One of the most remarkable conversations on finance we’ve ever had happened here in Lausanne yesterday. “You mean it costs as much to put money on deposit at a bank as it does to borrow it?” We…

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Why Trump Won’t Stop the Debt Crisis

POITOU, FRANCE – Sound the alarm. Take your money off the table. Pack your socks and your passport. There’s going to be trouble. The Washington Post reports: “Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s treasury secretary, is hurtling toward his first fiasco.” Republicans have majorities in…

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The Evil Genius of Obamacare

POITOU, FRANCE – “GOP reeling after healthcare collapse,” reads a headline on a political website. From The Hill: Republicans offered competing ideas for what to do next on healthcare Monday night, now that the current ObamaCare replacement effort has fallen apart….

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No “Trump Bump” for the Economy

POITOU, FRANCE – “Nothing really changes.” Sitting next to us at breakfast, a companion was reading an article written by the No. 2 man in France, Édouard Philippe, in Le Monde. The headline promised to tell us how the country was…

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Jesus Was No Deep Stater

SÃO PAULO – We arrived on Sunday morning. São Paulo can have terrible traffic. It is a sprawling place of 12 million people. But it was early when we pulled into town; the traffic moved swiftly. We decided to go…

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The Swamp Claims Its First Victim

Washington [is] a lot more broken than President Trump thought that it was. — White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – On Friday, the much-hyped Trump/GOP Obamacare reform sank into the swamp. If anything keeps us from…

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