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[@matthewstoller](/creator/twitter/matthewstoller)
"Hewlett Packard CEO was just on CNBC and says the settlement with the Antitrust Division was basically inconsequential. He also blames acting AAG Omeed Assefi for holding up the deal says permanent AAG Gail Slater let it through"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1940434386551529706) 2025-07-02 15:36:23 UTC 155.6K followers, 6323 engagements


"It's just a hunch but I don't think that the public is crying out to allow UnitedHealth Group to become a dominant player in home health care and hospice facilities"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1932494316481462312) 2025-06-10 17:45:23 UTC 155.6K followers, 23.7K engagements


"Jon Ossoff isn't bad but I don't get the idea that he's some brilliant political savant. He voted for the crypto stablecoin bill and has no political economy views. Just a normie nonprofit anti-corruption guy. Not bad but no real vision for anything"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944760389473858006) 2025-07-14 14:06:23 UTC 155.6K followers, 14.8K engagements


"5. Yes the new Ohio PBM saved the state and the Federal government money cut administrative bloat and increased the amount independent pharmacies got paid by 1200%. Suck it UnitedHealth Group"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942229027843977496) 2025-07-07 14:27:39 UTC 155.6K followers, 12.9K engagements


"@SpencerHakimian Because policy in a democracy should be made by elected officials"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945293357653114995) 2025-07-16 01:24:12 UTC 155.6K followers, XXX engagements


"@LadyBearJones The board members are the Reserve bank Presidents are picked by class B and C directors aka local business leaders. The CEO of Dominion Energy and the CEO of Siemens helped pick Tom Barkin for instance"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945302978388283522) 2025-07-16 02:02:26 UTC 155.6K followers, XXX engagements


"2. In 2018 the Columbus Dispatch revealed that pharma middlemen CVS Caremark and UnitedHealth Group's OptumRx were ripping off the state Medicaid program destroying pharmacies and hurting patients. So Ohio. fired them. And built its own state PBM"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942228054895456764) 2025-07-07 14:23:47 UTC 155.7K followers, 3532 engagements


"I voted for Kamala even though I hated her and what she said. Thats because it was obvious Trump and the entire MAGA movement is a corrupt scam. Just accept it"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942405708072251550) 2025-07-08 02:09:43 UTC 155.6K followers, 39.5K engagements


"The people running U.S.-China trade absolutely despise normal Americans. Here's Jacob Rothman who offshores to China. America doesnt want to make spatulas they want to eat burgers he says. Its impossible to bring manufacturing back to the US"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946194234295325030) 2025-07-18 13:03:58 UTC 155.7K followers, 4066 engagements


""The approval includes conditions barring Synopsys from ending existing customer contracts or denying renewal requests from Chinese clients Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Monday." Ruh-roh"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944838174045274343) 2025-07-14 19:15:28 UTC 155.7K followers, 5151 engagements


"@kenklippenstein Lloyd Doggett is actually smart"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945869525431312570) 2025-07-17 15:33:42 UTC 155.6K followers, 3835 engagements


"@JohnArnoldFndtn And in the one major challenge brought to trial - UHG/Change - Judge Carl Nichols ruled to allow the acquisition"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945530842412912831) 2025-07-16 17:07:53 UTC 155.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The U.S. government just basically nationalized our main rare earth magnet producer MP Materials and is guaranteeing pricing and customer purchases for XX years. FULL COMMUNISM Now back to our regularly scheduled Zohran Mamdani-bashing"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1943739340028280881) 2025-07-11 18:29:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 58.9K engagements


"The era of 'central bank independence' corresponds with higher inequality more financial instability and de-industrialization. The whole norm is just so insane"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945294749100884367) 2025-07-16 01:29:44 UTC 155.6K followers, 2801 engagements


"I went onto TruthSocial and Trump is getting slagged in the replies on Epstein. I cant emphasize how weird that dynamic is"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944233702231310514) 2025-07-13 03:13:31 UTC 155.7K followers, 46.5K engagements


"Last point. Trump will appoint a Fed Chair next year regardless likely a super Trumper. If a Dem wins in 2028 he/she should be able to fire that person lest that Trumper Fed Chair try to sabotage the new agenda"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945466217575108709) 2025-07-16 12:51:05 UTC 155.6K followers, 3676 engagements


"@julius24993 @ZohranKMamdani The government at various levels runs commissaries grocery stores and public markets all of which sell products made by private individuals and firms. I think that's fine. I don't think the government should run all grocery stores"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945908237565333921) 2025-07-17 18:07:31 UTC 155.7K followers, XXX engagements


"The NYT keeps complicating itself on its shitty and banal observations that everyone already knew"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1943653293974065198) 2025-07-11 12:47:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 5652 engagements


"The Biden White House did a bunch of stuff to finance rare earth and magnet production. What happened Is any of it going to come online"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1932541157470580910) 2025-06-10 20:51:31 UTC 155.6K followers, 10.1K engagements


"The removal of the spread pricing ban in the Trump tax bill is good for UnitedHealth group and bad for human beings. Even the modest good stuff in the bill - and there isn't much - is being killed"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1938229270276362711) 2025-06-26 13:34:03 UTC 155.6K followers, 6451 engagements


"The working class realignment away from Democrats started long before Trump it's quite possible his legacy is reversing it"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945912325799629076) 2025-07-17 18:23:46 UTC 155.7K followers, 9260 engagements


"Back in April as the market dropped everyone said Warren Buffett was a genius for having sold stock and keeping a big cash buffer. Then the market came back Buffett has underperformed the S&P and everyone is silent about his genius"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944803483900616968) 2025-07-14 16:57:37 UTC 155.7K followers, 12.8K engagements


"And last year a different piece on why we should end Fed independence for the American Prospect"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945293224907563097) 2025-07-16 01:23:41 UTC 155.6K followers, 2342 engagements


"Consumer sentiment is getting better so quickly it is almost back to Biden-era levels"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946221445954056450) 2025-07-18 14:52:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 3864 engagements


"Intesting DOJ is investigating a ServiceNow acquisition"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946224640835068346) 2025-07-18 15:04:48 UTC 155.7K followers, 3496 engagements


"This Fed official saying he'd flout the President - Tom Barkin - helped run McKinsey before joining the Fed. And he was hired by bankers to be a Fed Reserve bank official. No political leader appointed him. What the hell are we even doing"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945296376520134770) 2025-07-16 01:36:12 UTC 155.6K followers, 12.6K engagements


"Putting aside the political questions for a second. How can anyone defend the track record of the Fed They missed inflation in 2021 big time"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945901894267723818) 2025-07-17 17:42:19 UTC 155.7K followers, 8425 engagements


"Obama takes Ezra Klein's side on Abundance because of course"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944763562582225122) 2025-07-14 14:18:59 UTC 155.6K followers, 14.6K engagements


"The basis of the right is not faith in Trump it's distrust in everything else. If you believe that all politicians are corrupt by definition you cannot break from Trump when he lies"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1943313788003811434) 2025-07-10 14:18:06 UTC 155.7K followers, 7782 engagements


"The tldr replaced UnitedHealth Group with a state agency and it worked really well"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942234775315443912) 2025-07-07 14:50:30 UTC 155.6K followers, 7844 engagements


"Zohran Mamdani wears a suit doesn't curse is positive and talks policy nonstop"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945934826671886580) 2025-07-17 19:53:11 UTC 155.7K followers, 628.3K engagements


"Tucker Carlson said any American who serves in the IDF should lose his American citizenship. Correct You dont get to fight for a foreign army"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944399426132296181) 2025-07-13 14:12:03 UTC 155.7K followers, 106.6K engagements


"One significant problem with our alliance with Israel is that the values of that nation-state are so horrible and antithetical to liberal democracy that it is ripping apart America's faith in collective endeavors like the rule of law"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946192332212089270) 2025-07-18 12:56:25 UTC 155.7K followers, 29K engagements


"The tone on Wall Street has gone much more pro-Trump in the last two months. Yesterday Donald Trump jr opened trading and traders cheered USA USA USA"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945889036133912824) 2025-07-17 16:51:13 UTC 155.7K followers, 5358 engagements


"@TheStalwart Almost every ex-politician has high general approval ratings among normies. George W Bush is now well liked"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946354286192890361) 2025-07-18 23:39:57 UTC 155.7K followers, 3919 engagements


"One possibility is that Wall Street swings hard and overtly behind Trump and older Democrats fade away as younger Democrats try to get votes from the working class"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945913747886723506) 2025-07-17 18:29:25 UTC 155.7K followers, 4441 engagements


"'Boutique' is such a euphemism for 'Google law firm whose Obama era partners set to run the Kamala Harris White House cut a deal with Trump at Paul Weiss and then got embarrassed about it.'"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946264849534632234) 2025-07-18 17:44:34 UTC 155.7K followers, 5591 engagements


"Fed independence is purely about hating democracy. Heres Alan Blinder making that point"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946233990232391837) 2025-07-18 15:41:57 UTC 155.7K followers, 4842 engagements


"I dont quite understand why the Epstein thing penetrates the Trump mystique"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944178178370539849) 2025-07-12 23:32:53 UTC 155.6K followers, 60.7K engagements


"Elizabeth Warren goes on CNBC and defends @ZohranKMamdani against hostile anchors and Wall Street. "Big time investors are freaking out because they can't quite understand how somebody is going to be mayor without having come and bent a knee to them.""  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945871042938835342) 2025-07-17 15:39:43 UTC 155.7K followers, 109.1K engagements


"If Dems win in 2029 the Fed chair will likely be a super Trumper who will sabotage any Dem agenda. That is unless the President can fire the Fed Chair"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945468005867024554) 2025-07-16 12:58:12 UTC 155.6K followers, 20.6K engagements


"Peter Orszag wanted Biden to get rid of Lina Khan and his ideal business model is the government gives checks to UnitedHealth Group to roll-up the entire health care industry. And he helped design Obamacare Everyone is mad because he built a system that only worked for him"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1938331729380471051) 2025-06-26 20:21:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 6467 engagements


"Two Trump judges and a Bush judge just ruled for Planet Fitnesss right to trap you in subscription hell"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942649026769224017) 2025-07-08 18:16:35 UTC 155.6K followers, 114.3K engagements


"These are some insane numbers on big tech CEOs. XX% of Americans disapprove of Mark Zuckerberg. XX% dislike Google's Sundar Pichai. XX% disapprove of Jeff Bezos. XX% dislike Tim Cook. XX% disapprove of Sam Altman. All are net unfavorable"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946224259501621636) 2025-07-18 15:03:17 UTC 155.7K followers, 54.6K engagements


"A really ugly betrayal of the Make America Healthy Again movement Trump official reverses plans to ban 'forever chemicals' from drinking water"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1883996451505857024) 2025-01-27 21:52:11 UTC 155.6K followers, 222.6K engagements


"No Obama is a bad person with bad ideas and he should be a figure of scorn among Democrats like George W. Bush is for Republicans"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1944764650169495748) 2025-07-14 14:23:19 UTC 155.6K followers, 9347 engagements


"House GOP gives the Trump DOJ Antitrust division a big funding boost to $XXX million for 2026. I think it was $XXX million in 2025. That would be a really big increase"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945223453818097969) 2025-07-15 20:46:26 UTC 155.6K followers, 4275 engagements


"So private equity returned X% last year vs XX% for the S&P. And pe has underperformed every year since 2022"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1932842090125234670) 2025-06-11 16:47:19 UTC 155.7K followers, 15.8K engagements


"I wrote about the iron rule of modern America which is that the stock market must always go up no matter what. We just had a war in the Middle East and all three countries were very careful not to disturb the market"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946214416841650542) 2025-07-18 14:24:10 UTC 155.7K followers, 23.4K engagements


"Can anyone pushing 'central bank independence' justify that Fed board members have XX year terms That a bunch of the people who choose interest rates are *explicitly* picked by private bankers by law"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945295184050139603) 2025-07-16 01:31:28 UTC 155.6K followers, 5855 engagements


"1. Ok so let's talk about socialism aka the state taking over from private industry. Here are some examples you haven't heard of - Kentucky and Ohio - replacing their pharma pricing middlemen with state agencies"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942227724560424977) 2025-07-07 14:22:29 UTC 155.7K followers, 45.1K engagements


"Trump swapped his MAGA base for a Wall Street base. If you want to see real Trump worship watch Jim Cramer on CNBC"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945888227073602031) 2025-07-17 16:48:00 UTC 155.7K followers, 23.1K engagements


"From 1935-1951 when the President directly told the Fed Chair what to do we had a period of low inflation high growth and equality. Once the Fed became 'independent' in the 1980s we had deregulation financial crises and crypto garbage"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945210398971486244) 2025-07-15 19:54:34 UTC 155.6K followers, 8314 engagements


"On our current path China will come to design American society. We will not have free speech our communications and transportation networks will be organized to suit the needs of a distant nation-state. We'll become more like Brazil if we're lucky"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946193371476742403) 2025-07-18 13:00:32 UTC 155.7K followers, 5758 engagements


"In the 1920s FDR was a venture capitalist betting on vending machines and lobster futures"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1946236244888854980) 2025-07-18 15:50:54 UTC 155.7K followers, 32.6K engagements


"4. After two years experts studied the state PBM and you'll never guess what they found"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1942228701388624223) 2025-07-07 14:26:21 UTC 155.7K followers, 3250 engagements


"The Federal Reserve has its own institutional politics it's run by a mix of weird neoliberal economists Wall Street bankers and smug academics. In 1993 Fed officials secretly bailed out Mexico to manipulate Congress into passing NAFTA"  
![@matthewstoller Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2030711.png) [@matthewstoller](/creator/x/matthewstoller) on [X](/post/tweet/1945292789626868047) 2025-07-16 01:21:57 UTC 155.6K followers, 1476 engagements


"I made the case that Donald Trump should be able to fire Fed Chair Jay Powell. Federal Reserve independence is an insane idea that should have been ditched a long time ago"  
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"Cajun culture originated with a small group of farmers living in Nova Scotia who were kicked out of Canada in the 1700s by the English and then recruited by Spain to farm in Louisiana because they were good at reclaiming the land from the sea with dikes"  
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"It's just not ok for Fed officials to decide they get to make policy without direction from elected leaders. Fed independence is a bad joke"  
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"There's an entire corrupt literature from the economics professional on central bank independence. None of them point out that FDR and Truman explicitly ran the Fed directly and it was insanely successful. It's a real problem that all fancy people just lie about central banks"  
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"The later part is even worse. RFK Jr. doesn't know that his agency sets the rates for UnitedHealth Group. Just an ignorant dumbass"  
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