| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| What's the point of sending tax-free money to people who | 2020-12-29 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343768219111211009 | 1343768219111211009 |
| Silicon Valley was not created by low taxes or low traffic | 2020-12-28 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343556205059305472 | 1343556205059305472 |
| You can't go home again - to the office. | 2020-12-27 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343222787083661312 | 1343222787083661312 |
| Lindsey Graham can't be serious about the deficit - he | 2020-12-26 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1342696296302297088 | 1342696296302297088 |
| Thank you Texas for taking Elon Musk! He'll fit right | 2020-12-20 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340807605355225090 | 1340807605355225090 |
| The other side of eviction moratoriums. | 2020-12-20 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340755532978638848 | 1340755532978638848 |
| How Buttigieg could make a positive impact as | 2020-12-19 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340108260431388673 | 1340108260431388673 |
| We don't need huge technology companies! A bunch of merely | 2020-12-19 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340091372515196928 | 1340091372515196928 |
| Not necessary to find criminal behavior. Concentrated | 2020-12-13 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338150810429968384 | 1338150810429968384 |
| Public debt to finance current consumption is a bad idea | 2020-12-04 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334675502657748992 | 1334675502657748992 |
| Who's in favor of mass foreclosures? Vulture | 2020-12-03 | 35 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334361668885774336 | 1334361668885774336 |
| It's illegal to trade on inside information. | 2020-12-03 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334312100814995457 | 1334312100814995457 |
| Biden hopes to do something to strengthen labor and reduce | 2020-12-02 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333992123889139715 | 1333992123889139715 |
| What was good about retail? | 2020-11-27 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332433235544981504 | 1332433235544981504 |
| Amazon on track to become the economy. That much power | 2020-11-27 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332375247119532034 | 1332375247119532034 |
| Trump and McConnell leave another lump of coal in Biden's | 2020-11-27 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332359285100081153 | 1332359285100081153 |
| Why Janet Yellen is a good choice. | 2020-11-27 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332191171343314945 | 1332191171343314945 |
| Depression? | 2020-11-26 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331824644026814464 | 1331824644026814464 |
| Financial panics and central banks - sometimes just being | 2020-11-24 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331052180132904960 | 1331052180132904960 |
| Why not $15/hour? Why should America's largest | 2020-11-23 | 58 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1330700478225608705 | 1330700478225608705 |
| Do you really want prosperity to come to your struggling | 2020-11-20 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329631458944696322 | 1329631458944696322 |
| Universal Basic Income and Flat Tax | 2020-11-18 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329178331586064384 | 1329178331586064384 |
| Virus accelerates social security and medicare funding | 2020-11-15 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328087650960457734 | 1328087650960457734 |
| Crazy crypto creeps! | 2020-11-11 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326667281586253824 | 1326667281586253824 |
| Putin and Xi aren't the only ones who benefit from an | 2020-11-05 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324491215421599754 | 1324491215421599754 |
| So what if you lose your job! You can always work for | 2020-10-30 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322021806018945024 | 1322021806018945024 |
| Bankruptcy not a problem for senior executives. | 2020-10-27 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320914843616985089 | 1320914843616985089 |
| $15/hour would address a lot of problems. | 2020-10-26 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320553385737646080 | 1320553385737646080 |
| Just mediocre stock market performance. | 2020-10-24 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319807101246423041 | 1319807101246423041 |
| A salesman to put Trump to shame. With better | 2020-10-23 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319771001878528000 | 1319771001878528000 |
| Is $15/hour too much? | 2020-10-23 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319741541661880320 | 1319741541661880320 |
| How economists recognized that globalization of capital | 2020-10-23 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319694748160933888 | 1319694748160933888 |
| The light begins to dawn on the formerly-Democratic part | 2020-10-16 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317189636041551872 | 1317189636041551872 |
| The Fed should so more. It's hampered by memories of | 2020-10-16 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317115540788314113 | 1317115540788314113 |
| The return that major donors get for their investment - | 2020-10-15 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316558852825837568 | 1316558852825837568 |
| Income inequality grows apace. | 2020-10-13 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1315848172221030401 | 1315848172221030401 |
| How many politicians REALLY support small business - | 2020-10-11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1315389639708925952 | 1315389639708925952 |
| Concentrated power is inherently bad. It attracts the | 2020-10-08 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314303255824850944 | 1314303255824850944 |
| How much do you know about Trump economics? | 2020-10-05 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1313147803615457281 | 1313147803615457281 |
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========== What's the point of sending tax-free money to people who don't need it? It should at least count as taxable income. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2000-vs-600-stimulus-payments-isnt-the-real-issue/2020/12/28/a870d838-4945-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html Of course the point is political - the vote of a comfortable person is worth just as much as the vote of one suffering. #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2020-12-29 03:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343768219111211009 ========== Silicon Valley was not created by low taxes or low traffic or big corporate headquarters. Would-be Silicon Valleys need to understand the essence of the place. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/opinion/silicon-valley-exodus.html #PS1economics ===== impress 39 time 2020-12-28 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343556205059305472 ========== You can't go home again - to the office. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/opinion/covid-offices-remote-work.html Many remote workers will easily translate into gig workers. #PS1economics ===== impress 51 time 2020-12-27 15:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343222787083661312 ========== Lindsey Graham can't be serious about the deficit - he voted for billionaire tax relief in 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lindsey-graham-finally-wants-to-begin-a-dialogue-about-the-debt/2020/12/23/9eff30be-454a-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html He IS serious about crippling the Biden administration and regaining power in 2022 to fortify minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1economics ===== impress 58 time 2020-12-26 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1342696296302297088 ========== Thank you Texas for taking Elon Musk! He'll fit right into your politics. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/19/mathews-thank-you-texas-for-taking-elon-musk-off-our-hands/ He's dangerous - picture Donald Trump with intelligence. #PS1economics ===== impress 32 time 2020-12-20 23:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340807605355225090 ========== The other side of eviction moratoriums. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/19/for-small-bay-area-landlords-some-tenants-are-leaving-long-term-covid-scars/ There's no moratorium on landlord bankruptcies. #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2020-12-20 20:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340755532978638848 ========== How Buttigieg could make a positive impact as Transportation secretary. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-16/buttigieg-s-mckinsey-skills-may-get-the-u-s-its-infrastructure-day #PS1economics ===== impress 48 time 2020-12-19 01:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340108260431388673 ========== We don't need huge technology companies! A bunch of merely large ones that compete would be better. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/opinion/facebook-apple-ads.html #PS1economics ===== impress 40 time 2020-12-19 00:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340091372515196928 ========== Not necessary to find criminal behavior. Concentrated power is inherently bad. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/technology/facebook-antitrust-suits-hurdles.html Republicans know this about government and labor, but are blind to corporations. Their social media complaint is bias toward fact, against fantasy. #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2020-12-13 15:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338150810429968384 ========== Public debt to finance current consumption is a bad idea in normal times. Public debt to finance capital investment for the future is a good idea. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/03/opinion/biden-republicans-debt.html But fund current consumption for the next six months to avoid economic collapse. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 52 time 2020-12-04 01:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334675502657748992 ========== Who's in favor of mass foreclosures? Vulture capitalists looking for distressed properties to buy cheap. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/eviction-moratorium-ending.html #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 35 time 2020-12-03 04:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334361668885774336 ========== It's illegal to trade on inside information. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/us/politics/david-perdue-stock-trades.html Doesn't stop some people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#Statutory Do Georgia voters care? #PS1economics ===== impress 31 time 2020-12-03 01:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334312100814995457 ========== Biden hopes to do something to strengthen labor and reduce income and wealthy inequality. But McConnell and McCarthy will say no. #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2020-12-02 04:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333992123889139715 ========== What was good about retail? https://www.nytimes.com/es/2020/11/27/opinion/sunday/online-shopping-retail-covid.html It doesn't matter because it's gone for good now. #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2020-11-27 21:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332433235544981504 ========== Amazon on track to become the economy. That much power concentration eventually turns out badly - it attracts the wrong kinds of ambitious people. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/pushed-by-pandemic-amazon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html #PS1economics ===== impress 43 time 2020-11-27 17:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332375247119532034 ========== Trump and McConnell leave another lump of coal in Biden's Christmas stocking. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/business/economy/economy-unemployment-benefits-coronavirus.html #PS1economics ===== impress 45 time 2020-11-27 16:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332359285100081153 ========== Why Janet Yellen is a good choice. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/opinion/janet-yellen.html #PS1economics ===== impress 49 time 2020-11-27 05:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332191171343314945 ========== Depression? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/opinion/coronavirus-billionaires.html In 2016 Trump promised to help Forgotten Americans. Millions of Trump voters thought he meant them! 2020 proved those voters SLOW learners. But Forgotten American billionaires are FAST learners that invest in politicians. #PS1economics ===== impress 47 time 2020-11-26 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331824644026814464 ========== Financial panics and central banks - sometimes just being willing to help is all that's actually needed. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/opinion/trump-mnuchin-federal-reserve.html #PS1economics ===== impress 50 time 2020-11-24 01:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331052180132904960 ========== Why not $15/hour? Why should America's largest companies' full-time employees need public assistance? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/22/democrats-must-fight-15-georgia-future/ If the House were to pass a $15/hour minimum wage NOW, then Georgia voters could be reminded every day that the Senate does not act. #PS1economics ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 58 likes 1 time 2020-11-23 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330700478225608705 ========== Do you really want prosperity to come to your struggling rural county? Beware that prosperity will bring social and political change and a rising cost of living. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/15/biden-trump-economy/ You can't get prosperous the way your grandfathers did. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 29 time 2020-11-20 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329631458944696322 ========== Universal Basic Income and Flat Tax A flat tax taxes all income above a base amount at the same rate. A Universal Basic Income to protects all Americans from economic calamity. https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/ See how these ideas combine - https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1294800334197816 #PS1economics ===== impress 73 time 2020-11-18 21:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329178331586064384 ========== Virus accelerates social security and medicare funding crises. The end of the road is in sight. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/your-money/social-security-biden-trump.html Higher taxes or lower benefits? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit Both parties have avoided the issue, hoping the other guys would get the blame. #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2020-11-15 21:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328087650960457734 ========== Crazy crypto creeps! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-09/busted-hedges-alleged-fraud-bankrupt-silicon-valley-crypto-firm You think you're worse off with a traditional bank? #PS1economics ===== impress 46 time 2020-11-11 23:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326667281586253824 ========== Putin and Xi aren't the only ones who benefit from an impotent government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/05/stocks-election-markets-trump-biden/ Wall Street likes the sound of no-regulation! #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 42 time 2020-11-05 23:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324491215421599754 ========== So what if you lose your job! You can always work for Amazon. No experience necessary, and pay accordingly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/29/amazon-hiring-pandemic-holidays/ #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-10-30 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322021806018945024 ========== Bankruptcy not a problem for senior executives. They'll still get bonuses that they can donate to Trump's re-election in gratitude. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/26/chapter-11-bankruptcy-executive-bonuses/ #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2020-10-27 02:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320914843616985089 ========== $15/hour would address a lot of problems. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/opinion/minimum-wage-race-protests.html #PS1economics ===== impress 34 time 2020-10-26 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320553385737646080 ========== Just mediocre stock market performance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-market-is-a-rather-limp-balloon-just-look-at-history/2020/10/23/6e319082-154b-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2020-10-24 01:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319807101246423041 ========== A salesman to put Trump to shame. With better enablers to boot. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/books/review/billion-dollar-loser-adam-neumann-wework-reeves-wiedeman.html #PS1economics ===== impress 47 time 2020-10-23 22:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319771001878528000 ========== Is $15/hour too much? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/23/debate-minimum-wage-increase/ #PS1economics ===== impress 47 time 2020-10-23 20:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319741541661880320 ========== How economists recognized that globalization of capital was disadvantageous to localized labor - and led to increasingly feudal income and wealth inequality. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/economists-on-the-run #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2020-10-23 17:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319694748160933888 ========== The light begins to dawn on the formerly-Democratic part of the Trump base - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/opinion/trump-working-class-economy.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency Now the light needs to dawn on those who benefit from globalization - how can everybody benefit? #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 43 time 2020-10-16 19:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317189636041551872 ========== The Fed should so more. It's hampered by memories of inflation 40 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/opinion/americas-money-men-could-save-us-but-theyre-stuck-in-the-seventies.html #PS1economics ===== impress 28 time 2020-10-16 14:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317115540788314113 ========== The return that major donors get for their investment - early inside information that is not public. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-investors.html #PS1economics ===== impress 42 time 2020-10-15 01:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316558852825837568 ========== Income inequality grows apace. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-08/top-50-richest-people-in-the-us-are-worth-as-much-as-poorest-165-million #PS1economics ===== impress 38 time 2020-10-13 02:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1315848172221030401 ========== How many politicians REALLY support small business - by enabling antitrust? The last antitrust president was Theodore Roosevelt. Federal antitrust activity is underfunded. Big corporations donate more! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/business/big-companies-are-starting-to-swallow-the-world.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality #PS1economics ===== impress 35 time 2020-10-11 20:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1315389639708925952 ========== Concentrated power is inherently bad. It attracts the wrong kind of people! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/08/congress-big-tech-anti-trust/ It's a lesson Americans have repeatedly learned, acted on, and then forgotten. #PS1economics ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 39 time 2020-10-08 20:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314303255824850944 ========== How much do you know about Trump economics? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/05/opinion/trump-record-quiz.html #PS1economics ===== impress 28 time 2020-10-05 16:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1313147803615457281