He also founded craigslist, the online Bulletin Board where i sell my discarded swimwear. Last night, tucker revealed the study was in fact no study at all. Can we get some numbers on that, and why you . No, actually, we cant. In the words of the study, pinning down precise proportions of censorship is impossible because twitter doesnt release sufficient data. Are you following the reasoning here . Their conclusion, twitter is not biased and we can be certain its not biased because twitter refuses to release the data on who it bands. Greg in other words, a fake study for a guy who claims he doesnt like fake news. It was designed for the media so they wouldnt have to do their jobs and investigate the actual claims, but the research is about as a researchy as turning on the lights to your living room to assess the existence of whales. Yep, no whales there. Really, having a Big Tech Lib Fund A Study On Whether big tech is biased, thats like me finding a study on how great i am, or a study
rate and imposing a 25% minimum tax on wealthy americans. here with a look at the coming showdown in congress our wall street journal columnists khan henninger and mary anastasia o grady and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, i couldn t help but notice that the new york times this week portrayed the president s budget as moving to the center. is that how you see it? [laughter] whoa. well, it may be where the new york times describes the center. no, that budget moves smartly to the left. i mean, senator elizabeth warren was beside herself over all the tax increases on the wealthy. she just thought it was great. you know, this is really a peter pan judgment, paul. you just spread pixie dust everywhere, and the economy takes off. we could make fun of it, we say it s not going to happen because of the republican house. i could make a couple points about in this. one, if perchance, this is a campaign speech concern a campaign budget, there s no question about it, a
open to an alternative in 204 with 14% saying they d support kennedy for the democratic nomination while a new harris poll finds that 63% of voters think the president would not be able to finish a second term if he was reelected and that vice president kamala harris would wind up taking over at some point. let s bring in wall street journal columnists dan henninger and kim strassel. so, dan, what do you think of joe biden s decision to run for a second term? i think that if in terms of the good of the country, it s a big mistake. for sure. in terms of joe biden s apparently boundless ambitions, if he thinks donald trump is going to be the opposition, he believes he can beat trump. paul: you think that s the main motivation for biden at this stage, beat trump? well, no. i think the main motivation is he likes to be president [laughter] paul: okay. air force one, all the rest of it. [laughter] his entire career was dedicated to this spot, and it s tough to give it up
reason why the second half of last year was a little bit stronger than we thought, there were very idiosyncratic reasons. the third quarter it was a strange net export story that we were dropping faster than our trading a partners, so we exported more to them than we imported from them, and in the fourth quarter it was a strong consumer. but i ve done a lot of my own academic analysis, and the reason why consumption was high was that people had a lot of money left over from the covid stimulus. and i ve done an estimate of how much savings is left, and the answer is, like, zero. moreover, i don t know if you ve seen the chart, paul, but right now the average interest rate on credit card debt is 20% in the [laughter] and credit card debt is soaring. and so i think that basically credit card debt is maxed out, the covid savings are gone, the consumer s going to hit the wall. i ve been saying that for about a month, and you saw what happened to retail sales. they had a really sharp drop,