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It’s often interesting to read about how bad economic policies - and the thinking that informed them - used to be.
A window into people’s intuitive understanding of economics.
The World Bank has halted its disbursements to Gabon due to payment arrears. With the presidential election approaching, the country’s public finances are in dire straits. l.theafricareport.com/7RO
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Do not give out ideas like this right now, you never know what is going to be picked up
Well that's unconstitutional, so there's no way Congressional Republicans would let him get away with hahaha, just kidding.
wasn’t wool export duties a main source of revenue for the british crown? easy to do if you’re an island, major wool producer for the region and limited capacity for internal taxation
King John was considered a terrible king and the aristocracy forced him to sign the Magna Carta because of it.
Under the Lerner Symmetry Theorem, taxes on exports by the exporting country are equivalent to tariffs on imports by the importing country.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerner_sy
Rob Ford was threatening this with Ontario electricity.
When Trump institutes this policy after you spoke it into existence, I'm blaming you.
The French built a wall around Paris to tax imports of wine from Bordeaux into Paris. Imagine doing that to Manhattan.
Don’t count it out yet. Just because it’s literally forbidden in our constitution does not mean he won’t try it.
Just wait till Trump announces his new policy of “requisitioning” the last bits of grain from starving peasants in Africa
Litteral Trump is doing
What
Alexander Hamilton convinced are founders to do lol