Patrick Chovanec
@prchovanec.bsky.social
Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
Tomorrow, Donald Trump will give an Oval Office address announcing definitive proof that Bigfoot exists. ANYTHING to change the subject.
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Tomorrow, Donald Trump will give an Oval Office address announcing definitive proof that Bigfoot exists. ANYTHING to change the subject.
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International stocks are outperforming the S&P 500 by the widest margin in 16 years.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
International stocks are outperforming the S&P 500 by the widest margin in 16 years.
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
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I think the situation room is for a particular kind of situation, not for situations generally, even though I agree that this is a situation.
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I think the situation room is for a particular kind of situation, not for situations generally, even though I agree that this is a situation.
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It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
Judge rules mandatory detention of Chicago day care teacher by ICE is illegal
According to the ruling, Diana Santillana will be given a bond hearing in front of an immigration judge, who could order her released while her civil deportation case proceeds.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.
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Here’s the thing: Pam Bondi is not the Attorney General. She’s really not. She’s Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. That’s all.
November 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Here’s the thing: Pam Bondi is not the Attorney General. She’s really not. She’s Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. That’s all.
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“Come-to-America-spend-your-money-then-get-out” is some next-level, smooth salesmanship. 🤡
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Come-to-America-spend-your-money-then-get-out” is some next-level, smooth salesmanship. 🤡
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I wrote on the UK's reported suspension of some intel sharing with the US on legal grounds. I spoke to several former intel officials & all agreed that they could not think of a comparable case over decades. Some expressed serious concern over retaliation www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I wrote on the UK's reported suspension of some intel sharing with the US on legal grounds. I spoke to several former intel officials & all agreed that they could not think of a comparable case over decades. Some expressed serious concern over retaliation www.economist.com/britain/2025...
I am happy to announce that I am nowhere to be found in the Epstein emails. I will be expecting my offer from Harvard shortly.
A series of exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein and Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury Secretary, suggest a far cozier and more intimate relationship than was previously known, emails between the two that were released by House Republicans show. nyti.ms/3WTjiKu
Epstein Bantered Regularly With Larry Summers
The former Treasury secretary corresponded routinely with Jeffrey Epstein. In one series of exchanges, he sought Mr. Epstein’s advice on how to handle a female acquaintance.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I am happy to announce that I am nowhere to be found in the Epstein emails. I will be expecting my offer from Harvard shortly.
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I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.
Trump’s Insane Pentagon Name-Change Likely to Cost Taxpayers $2 Billion
Changing signage and stationary alone for the Department of Defense would cost at least a billion dollars.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
It is true that anything Epstein claimed, without corroboration, should be taken with a grain of salt.
Just a note of caution Epstein was sick, perverted criminal who thrived on building social networks with the powerful. Part of that game is pretending that you’re a lot more influential than you actually are. This is also how you scare people into not going to the media or pressing charges.
Jeffrey Epstein claims he gave Russians insight into Trump
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It is true that anything Epstein claimed, without corroboration, should be taken with a grain of salt.
So what happens now?
"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So what happens now?
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In a time of too many small men in America, no man has been smaller than Mike Johnson.
REPORTER: Why'd it take so long to get sworn in?
GRIJALVA: *gestures at Johnson* That would not be my question!
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I really like this lady
GRIJALVA: *gestures at Johnson* That would not be my question!
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I really like this lady
November 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In a time of too many small men in America, no man has been smaller than Mike Johnson.
At the end of the day, I don't believe a GOP led by the Fuentes faction can win elections. And if I'm wrong about that, then America deserves to be destroyed.
For all the leftist, liberal and moderate conservative schadenfreude over Trump's current predicament in the face of the Epstein files, a loss of control among the older generation of MAGA bosses opens up the Republican Party to a full hostile takeover by its Fuentes faction
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
At the end of the day, I don't believe a GOP led by the Fuentes faction can win elections. And if I'm wrong about that, then America deserves to be destroyed.
It certainly seems like "red" American occupying "blue" America, like some twisted revenge for Reconstruction.
“If you look at the patterns of where this admin has focused its deployment of National Guard troops, it’s a lot of Black cities, a lot of ‘woke’ places,” said Brookings fellow Hanna Love. Targeting seems to relate to "the demographics and the political leanings of those places, which is alarming.”
Will Maryland National Guard riot control force stifle protests, elections?
“These on-call elements have existed for approximately 20 years in every state and territory as a response force available to governors,” A National Guard spokesman said.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It certainly seems like "red" American occupying "blue" America, like some twisted revenge for Reconstruction.
That really makes you want to vomit.
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
That really makes you want to vomit.
Maybe, just maybe, the 218 votes to release the Epstein files was a big reason the shutdown lasted as long as it did.
November 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Maybe, just maybe, the 218 votes to release the Epstein files was a big reason the shutdown lasted as long as it did.
This.
Agree. Anyone who thinks “globalization” is some sort of US economic policy that we can turn on or off has no concept of the modern world. The world outside the US exists and they’re racing ahead with or without us.
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This.
Enforced economic inefficiency is the true "race to the bottom".
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Enforced economic inefficiency is the true "race to the bottom".
Boondoggle Ranch.
You couldn't make this up.
You couldn't make this up.
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Boondoggle Ranch.
You couldn't make this up.
You couldn't make this up.
Here's what people don't get about H1B in tech: it's already a globally competitive labor market. The question isn't whether foreign tech workers will compete with American ones - they will - but whether they will hold their jobs and spend their incomes here or abroad.
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Here's what people don't get about H1B in tech: it's already a globally competitive labor market. The question isn't whether foreign tech workers will compete with American ones - they will - but whether they will hold their jobs and spend their incomes here or abroad.
Or they could just say:
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Or they could just say:
If you need people to call you the greatest ever, then you’re not.
Kristi Noem: "It's remarkable what President Trump has done. It's because he's a great leader, he's a visionary, and this man is going to go down in history as our greatest president ever."
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you need people to call you the greatest ever, then you’re not.
Both of them are falling prey to the misconception that this is a zero-sum game: either native-born get the job or foreign-born do. They can’t see the basic truth that the more talent flocks to America, the more jobs and prosperity there will be for everyone.
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Both of them are falling prey to the misconception that this is a zero-sum game: either native-born get the job or foreign-born do. They can’t see the basic truth that the more talent flocks to America, the more jobs and prosperity there will be for everyone.
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🚨SCOOP: ICE List Identifies Agent Who Beat Woman at 26 Federal Plaza
ICE refused to name the officer who attacked an immigrant mother in broad daylight. Now we know his name is Victor Mojica. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ice-...
ICE refused to name the officer who attacked an immigrant mother in broad daylight. Now we know his name is Victor Mojica. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ice-...
SCOOP: ICE List Identifies Agent Who Beat Woman at 26 Federal Plaza
DHS refused to name the officer who attacked an immigrant mother in broad daylight. Now we know his name is Victor Mojica.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
🚨SCOOP: ICE List Identifies Agent Who Beat Woman at 26 Federal Plaza
ICE refused to name the officer who attacked an immigrant mother in broad daylight. Now we know his name is Victor Mojica. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ice-...
ICE refused to name the officer who attacked an immigrant mother in broad daylight. Now we know his name is Victor Mojica. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ice-...