Author: BooMan

Tax Reform Coverage is Slowly Improving

As late as a couple of weeks ago, the articles on tax reform never seemed to mention the need to first pass a new budget that would include reconciliation instructions for tax reform. That led me to write a couple of pieces that...

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This Wasn’t Hard to See Coming

I have provided you with a roadmap for what would happen, and why, to the Trump administration when September rolled around. It’s important to understand what I did as a structural analysis more than a prediction of how...

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Casual Observation

The two headlines don’t seem to go together: North Korea Says It Tested a Hydrogen Bomb Meant for Missiles and Trump Preparing Withdrawal from South Korea Trade Deal, a Move Opposed by Top Aides. But there’s a fairly...

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John Kelly Can Serve His Country Now

The president is a hard man to serve: President Trump was in an especially ornery mood after staff members gently suggested he refrain from injecting politics into day-to-day issues of governing after last month’s raucous rally...

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Tim Ryan Needs a Lesson in Regional Inequality

Tim Ryan is making himself look kind of clueless with comments like these: Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan (Ohio) is going against party leaders and calling for a business friendly agenda ahead of the 2018-midterm elections. “To...

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