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Yep, uncertainty Trump likes, economies don't. Krugman says, "nothing coherent here." Wealthy countries have very few tariffs , but if they decided to class a VAT as a tariff then we're off to the races. On DOGE and claims of fraud, "the only clear evidence we have is that DOGE does not know what it's doing.

Most interesting, as always, Musk also a fraud - Elon Musk Is Faking It
The fraudster who cried “fraud”
Paul Krugman Feb 13, 2025
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Reporters were puzzled by the claim because there didn’t appear to be any evidence. You will be happy to know that the mystery has been solved. Some DOGE staffers noticed that USAID had disbursed grants to local groups trying to limit the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in Gaza. But they didn’t read far enough in to learn that the Gaza in question isn’t the war-ravaged strip; it’s a province .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/musk-walks-back-administrations-claim-about-50-million-condom-allotment-for-gaza/ .. in the African nation of Mozambique. Oh well, southern Africa, the Middle East, what’s the difference to the Muskenjugend?

Elon Musk actually admitted the mistake, albeit with minimal grace, during his extraordinary Oval Office press conference with President Trump on Tuesday. (Trump hasn’t acknowledged error.) That conference consisted mainly of Musk pacing around, declaiming, while Trump sat passively at his desk, occasionally expressing agreement. Musk behaved as if he were the actual president and Trump merely a heavily made-up prop.
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Fraudulent friends falsifying fraud.