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Talmon Joseph Smith
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New York Times economics reporter:
https://www.nytimes.com/by/talmon-joseph-smith // New Orleans Native // Author of Clout & Capital: forthcoming from Simon & Schuster (Atria)

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what is, talk to me
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
i should find a way to say your belittling response even after ive explained myself is a racist microagression. because that sorta thing has a lot of currency over here. but im not about that game. im about prosperity for all as soon as possible
my book is reporting of me asking how we can get there
possible.my
October 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
id love to talk to ya for a story i just started work on related to this if ya see this!

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have a great day!
October 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
i am also unflinching in my reporting about the maga turn against democracy, the GOPs policy hypocrisy + Trump's authoritarian behavior

but i was born in 94. adults in power since then in both parties shouldve done much more to put ppl>profits

ive now spent years on wall st & main st covering this
October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
yea -- which is why its frustrating that so many academics and thinktank types only focus on the supply aspect (which at any given time may have little to do with rate moves?)

Eisman said when PMs mention deficits as a mover on TV they often just are "virtue signaling" to clients. that checks out
October 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
damn, well put
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Talmon Joseph Smith
because mobilizing public finances is an incredibly fraught political exercise and deficits are argued in moralizing terms by people resistant to redistribution or collective action.
October 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Talmon Joseph Smith
The fact that Republicans are against Obamacare isn't in dispute *by anybody* so I don't know why you people keep bringing up that strawman.

But, did those five Democrats (plus Obama himself) "have agency" when they killed the Public Option at the behest of insurance company "stakeholders"?
October 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM