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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For the first time on record, a majority of Americans have not much/no confidence in the government to ensure food safety. news.gallup.com/poll/715430/...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

EIA’s latest short-term energy outlook predicts gas prices next year will be 21 cents higher than forecasts from a month ago, and oil $10 per barrel higher than a month ago. www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Perceptions of press freedom in the U.S. hit a record low, and are now below the average among developed nations. news.gallup.com/poll/715025/...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In nearly every country, women worry about walking alone via @not-ship.com www.not-ship.com/safe-streets...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Trump thinks cost overruns on a renovation project are criminal, I have a reflecting pool to sell him

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gasoline will have a big impact on September CPI. EIA data show Sep YoY gasoline inflation is 36%. Diesel (not a line item in CPI) will be worse, at 68% YoY. (Diesel demand is half of gasoline by volume; shows up more on the PPI side, and/or embedded in inflation of other goods with lag in CPI)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is not unreasonable to worry about. If Trump thinks the only reason Warsh voted to raise rates is that the rest of the FOMC is "political" and "hostile" and forced Warsh's hand, how do we think Trump will react, given lawfare deployed thus far against Fed members? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Markets think it's basically a coin flip whether the Fed hikes again next month (via CMEGroup)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

breakdown of where the anti-Trump bets paid off the most

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dems are +7 on immigration - and ahead on almost every other major issue, too

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

About a quarter of U.S. workers, a new high, worry that technology could soon make their jobs obsolete. Used to be that non-college workers were a lot more anxious about this. but the gap has narrowed news.gallup.com/poll/714368/...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is like the Inception of bullshit. 1. we're not taking in "Trillions of Dollars of Economic Development." 2. Even if we were, it would be money pledged for sometime the future 3. Even if that were true, investment in a private company ≠ tax revenue that be sent out as stimmies

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

markets now think there is an 86.5% probability that the Fed hikes rates next week (chart via CME Group)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is lunacy. Reis didn’t call Trump names or scream bloody murder. He made a measured comment about what academic research said about prior Trump tariffs. This appears to be the offensive tweet:

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Parents’ ratings of their own kids’ school is much higher than their ratings of k-12 education nationwide. But: both series are at record lows. news.gallup.com/poll/714017/...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

STOP 👏 INVENTING 👏 NEW 👏 LETTERS 👏 FOR 👏 THE 👏 ECONOMY

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the more important voters say an issue is right now, the more voters dislike how the president is handling it. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-04...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

pity poor Kevin Warsh. Trump thinks a stronger-than-expected jobs report means interest rates will fall. markets know it means the opposite

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, "check your pocket change" lol. perfect motto for this administration

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

On average, 71 percent of wage and salary workers had access to take paid leave in 2024–25. Most major occupational categories have greater access to leave than they did in 2017-2018, except installation/maintenance/repair & office/admin (latter not terribly different) www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

compared to prior eras, those applying as conscious objectors today more likely to "have been in the military for more than a decade, represent all enlisted and officer ranks up to major and many have even attended service academies prior to their commissions," per one org.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Trump is underwater on every issue www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-25...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Because we're buying Canadian energy! Do you want them to *stop* selling us energy?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When Trump took office, most of the people ICE arrested were convicted criminals. Today, only about 1 in 5 are. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If he renames every geographic feature after America, maps are going to get very confusing. like I think he has missed the point of naming things

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

what Bessent said about Druckenmiller last year. www.ft.com/content/33ea...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

yeesh. Druckenmiller was Bessent's mentor www.wsj.com/opinion/let-...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also stupid: Trump is mad about our trade deficit with Canada. But the main reason we have a deficit with Canada is energy. Meanwhile he also wants to expand our energy imports from Canada. Has he ever seen a map of the Keystone XL pipeline that he's ardently trying to resurrect?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

reminder that this is what auto supply chains in North America currently look like. Random parts can cross the US/Canadian border half a dozen times www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hear me out. What if instead of selling food below cost to all comers at taxpayer expense, then using more taxpayer dollars to subsidize private companies that can't compete, we had a program targeting nutritional assistance just to the people who needed it, as a sort of supplement?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The pandemic seems to have permanently increased (or coincided with) asocial behavior. On an average day, one in 10 young adults now has no in-person contact with another human www.ft.com/content/e1eb...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@jvl.bsky.social on a certain genre of new story. www.thebulwark.com/p/immigratio...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

12% of Democrats, 15% of Independents, and 54% of Republicans say most Democrats are socialists (via YouGov)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

31% of Americans, including 9% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans, support equipping federal immigration agents with gloves that can deliver an electric shock yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Data Center Boom Is a Texas Story www.apollo.com/insights-new...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

More people rate inflation as their top priority now than in 2024 blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/affordabil...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@johnauthers.bsky.social: "stock market’s relationship to war and peace can be troublesome. Just look at Dow in 1938 and 1939, as an ever-more belligerent Hitler brought Europe sliding ever further into war. The impact on Wall Street wasn’t totally predictable" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Rhodium projects that under current policy, US GHG emissions will be 26–29% under the 2005 level in four years, driven by an influx of natural gas and renewable production. Their forecast for 2040 is 27-41% below the 2005 level. rhg.com/research/tak...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

size of corp debt one rung above junk is close to record highs

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

what—and i cannot stress this enough—the actual eff www.ft.com/content/1ed4...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In the past two weeks, Trump has recorded his lowest-ever approval ratings from whites without college degrees, across either term as president. yougov.com/en-us/articl...

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