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Tony Annett

@tonyannett

At the intersection of economics and Catholic social teaching. Author of “Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy.”

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If you want to penalize Israeli individuals, do not penalize an innocent Israeli singer at the Eurovision. Penalize Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich. Sanction them.

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It’s common, especially in the US, to blame a lot of the EU’s economic travails on the adoption of euro.

I don’t agree. The US has a lot of cyclical divergence - between California and Texas, for example. But this poses no problem as the US has a fiscal union as well as a single…

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Biden and Trump represent the two sides of Richard Nixon!

Biden: the side that likes high taxes on the rich, working class politics, and protecting the environment.

Trump: the side that wants to do macro populism, tariffs, and lean on the Fed to keep policy loose.

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'We have to reassert the sovereignty of people above profits in America.” — Walter Reuther, President, UAW International at the opening address of the 12th UAW constitutional convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 10, 1949.

'We have to reassert the sovereignty of people above profits in America.” — Walter Reuther, President, UAW International at the opening address of the 12th UAW constitutional convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 10, 1949. #StandUpUAW
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This is Israel's Minister of National Security Ben Gvir.

Israel is a money pit for us. End the alliance and treat them like a normal country.

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Excellent. May Jubilee 2025 follow the path of Jubilee 2000 and relieve some of the debt crippling poorer countries.

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The universalist - particularist debate is a knotty moral problem.

For sure, Aristotle’s circle of care only included free male members of the polis. And postwar liberals constructed welfare states and other social democratic institutions that largely excluded outsiders. Even…

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Long NYT piece showing that attacks on Soros and “globalists” echo the antisemitism of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/…

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The biggest mistake made by an Israeli leader in modern memory was directing funds to support Hamas. That decision was approved by Trump and enabled by his administration. Any Jewish person who votes for Trump ought to have their head examined.

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The Global Tax Evasion Report 2024, which our EU Tax Observatory released last year, estimates that a minimum tax on global billionaires equal to 2% of their wealth would generate ~$250 billion per year in tax revenue

$250 billion, from less than 3,000 under-taxed individuals

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