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Mainstream economic positions are being ignored

Economists don’t agree on much, but what they do agree on is being ignored

Fed chair Jerome Powell making a quizzical face.

Actually, deficits do matter, says Fed chairman Jerome Powell

A child yawns as he sits on their father's shoulders as U.S. President Donald Trump rallies with supporters at Middle Georgia Regional Airport in Macon, Georgia, U.S. November 4, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1E5B871530

America’s trade deficit is now bigger than it’s been in 10 years

WHERE IS THIS GOING?

Two tyrannical men are about to decide the fate of the global economy over dinner

Donald Trump rests his hand on the $1.5 trillion tax overhaul plan while signing the bill in the Oval Office of the White House

Trump’s tax cuts aren’t paying for themselves

Trump wanted to print money to repay the national debt. That’s bananas

Trump’s tax cuts are foiling his beautiful trade war

ART OF THE WRONG DEAL

Trump’s “trade deal” with the EU won’t change America’s fundamental problem

These charts give Trump perfect ammunition for bashing the EU

Ivanka Trump, second from right, the daughter and assistant to President Donald Trump, is seated with her husband White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, right, during a dinner with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, at Mar-a-Lago, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla.

Ivanka Trump received valuable trademarks from China just before Donald Trump’s ZTE reversal