Donald Trump's economic delusions are already hurting America

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23 points·sleepyguy··5 comments

2 of the (supposedly) coequal branches, COTUS and POTUS, need a shared resource of a truly independent, apolitical think tank of subject matter experts above and beyond OMB that cannot be fired that will advise pros/cons/tradeoffs on enacting particular bills and policies whether they want to hear it or not. Adults who know stuff not beholden to corporate masters or political favoritism must have a voice to prevent disaster.

Unfortunately, I can't see how that would work.

There are a lot of independent, apolitical think tanks. But Congress isn't compelled to listen to them.

Nor can I imagine what would happen if we did compel them. Do you see a Congressman going to their voters and saying "Hey, I know you send me to support tariffs, but it turns out that the non-partisan Tax Foundation figures that's going to cost over 230,000 jobs."

(https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/trump-tariffs...)

There is a fundamental conflict between democracy and "adults who know stuff". We have a strong belief in the former, and therefore we don't get the latter.

We could call it the "Ministry of Truth."

Sorry, no, "Office of Truth." "Department? "Bureau?"

Or do we need to find a meme to make an acronym out of?

https://archive.ph/KKMeA

Things are so erratic it's not going to be very good for stable investment.

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