Reposted by Marc LévesqueAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/04/2025WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus! 1053246166628
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 09/04/2025More fundamentally, higher inventory levels mean less future production to satisfy demand. 1742
Reposted by Marc LévesqueAndrew Coyne @acoyne.bsky.social · 09/04/2025My latest, on Preston Manning’s disgraceful foray into separatist blackmail: Vote Conservative, or we blow the place up. (Yeah? You got the numbers to back up that threat?) theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...theglobeandmail.comOpinion: If you’re going to threaten to secede, you might at least have the numbers to back it upA piece by the former leader of the Reform Party of Canada, Preston Manning, had the substance of a ransom note 2624671
Reposted by Marc LévesqueJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Good morning. The United States now has the highest tariff rates in the world. 23500135
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 09/04/2025There are reports that China is unloading US Treasuries, which would partly explain the surge in bond yields over the past few days. Some would argue that the rise in yields reflects inflation expectations, but that doesn't work: breakevens have actually fallen over the past few days. 540
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 10/12/2024www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...theglobeandmail.comTrudeau’s office at odds with Finance Minister Freeland over GST holiday, $250 cheques, sources sayFinance officials see GST break, $250 cheque pledge as fiscally unwise, sources say, with minister at risk of missing goal to keep the deficit at or below $40.1-billion 020
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Just finished reading the complete paper. It is an excellent piece of work — the methodology is rigorous and its description is detailed and informative. Overall, a key contribution to the discussion on carbon pricing in Canada. 👏👏👏 021
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This is bad politics because it reeks of desperation. And, it's bad economics: if you want to provide tax relief, balance the budget first and then provide across-the-board income tax cuts, not selective relief on consumption taxes. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...theglobeandmail.comTrudeau to unveil GST relief in multibillion-dollar affordability announcementNDP signals its support, but its statement did not specify if party will vote to end filibuster in the House 020
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I think he should have chosen Judge Judy instead of Matt Gaetz. 010
Reposted by Marc LévesqueDon Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 19/11/2024CIBC: pace of #inflation accelerated in #Canada in Oct, but this follows a string of reports that showed more muted #price pressures. The 0.4% m/m non-seasonally adjusted increase left annual inflation at 2% target, w both of those figures being a tick above consensus expectation #cdnecon #CanadaSky 122
Reposted by Marc Lévesqueian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 19/11/2024deportations higher under obama than trump administration, then fell off a cliff under biden. 85310
Reposted by Marc LévesquePhilippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Sondages sur les appuis à la souveraineté du Québec dans la dernière année : des chiffres généralement stables, de faibles fluctuations de mois en mois. Détails → qc125.com/sondages-sou... 4144
Reposted by Marc LévesqueThomas Juneau @thomasjuneau.bsky.social · 16/11/2024"In the intelligence world, sound judgment and a firm grasp of reality are essential. Tulsi Gabbard has shown us, repeatedly, that she lacks both." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Gabbard’s lack of judgment and flights from reality are disqualifyingYou can’t believe foreign propaganda more than your intelligence agencies — and hope to run them. 1194
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Hello everyone, Still trying to get used to this place (although the appearance is very Twitter-like, there are important differences). Is there a list, feed, grouping of economists and economic commentators? 210
Reposted by Marc LévesqueJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 16/11/2024I get why the panic around RFK Jr's appointment is focusing a lot on vaccines. But I'm not sure we've full wrapped our heads around how much damage he could do to trans folks and people living with HIV/AIDS. There are *a lot* of medications he could target. www.them.us/story/rfk-jr...them.usJust a Reminder That RFK Jr. Thinks Poppers Cause AIDSTrump’s pick for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services also has claimed that chemicals in water turn kids gay and refers to puberty blockers as “castration drugs.” 561140338
Reposted by Marc LévesqueGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Very little of what Trump does these days amazes me. Any one of the last three of Trump’s Cabinet-level picks (Gabbard as DNI, Gaetz as AG, RFK for HHS), standing alone, would arguably have been the worst in American history. (1/2) 395112121508
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 14/11/2024This is insane. Completely insane. www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/p...cnn.comTrump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services secretary | CNN PoliticsPresident-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a choice that would add to Trump’s list of provocative picks whos... 020
Marc Lévesque @marclevesqueeco.bsky.social · 14/11/2024agree. The other place is going way downhill. 010