Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Jimmy Lai is still unjustly imprisoned.
Today. Still.
China is murdering him slowly given his health and the inhumane conditions. This is cruel and unusual punishment. And, oh by the way, you have solidified his status and martyr and hero every moment you keep him confined.
Release him to his family.
I still can’t stop picturing the state dinner we had for Xi Jinping at the White House. Glad everyone enjoyed and all. But this is still happening in our world today, to a man with tremendous humility, courage, and resilience.
Selfishly I want him freed because I want to learn from him about holiness.
There should not be a day when we do not pray for the release of Jimmy Lai until it happens.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Meet Amy Willis! 📚🍷
Educator. Book lover. Conversation enthusiast.
She's part of the team bringing GoodRiches Books & Enid's Table to downtown Indianapolis—where great books, delicious food, good wine & interesting people come together.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
"It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim."
By my @AEI colleague @KoriSchake. aei.org/foreign-and-defense-…
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Another example of a “democratic” socialist who can’t bring himself to wholeheartedly oppose authoritarian socialism:
For once, the community note is actually useful. Millions of people did indeed die under Mao's reign. It was a tragedy.
But, for some reason, the Western mind seems incapable of grasping the complex impact of Mao. In the West, we refuse to acknowledge that Mao is actually respected and admired in China.
I've listed a few reasons in my original post. Unity and sovereignty are big ones. After a century of being carved up and subjected to imperialism, Mao unified China into a single central state. He removed foreign influence. He stood up to the US.
China’s status as a major power today rests on foundations built by Mao.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
DL propose suppression de l'abattement Papon, fin des régimes spéciaux, et désindexation durable des pensions au-dessus d'un certain niveau.
C'est sans doute encore trop peu en proportion de l'effort total à fournir, mais injuste de dire qu'il ne propose que la capitalisation.
Si c’est Lisnard le winner de la battle à droite, faut vraiment maintenir le pressing sur les retraites. Parce que c’est vraiment LE sujet sur lequel il n'est pas sérieux. Il se cache derrière un hypothétique passage à la capitalisation, qui pour rappel existe déjà, eh, oui, un
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Vital to understand that buy-borrow-die is nowhere near as big or prevalent as is being portrayed, and is not a justification for wealth taxation. ⬇️
The evidence is that the "buy, borrow, die" loophole is probably big enough to justify a targeted loophole closer, but nowhere near big enough to justify broad-based wealth or mark-to-market taxes.
Three weeks ago, I explored this is more depth: georgecallas.substack.com/p/…
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Republicans are considering another massive debt-limit increase to spare Trump negotiations with Democrats next year.
Their last party-line increase came alongside policies that added trillions to projected deficits.
America needs a fiscal course correction. 🧵
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
I recently completed a trip to four central banks in Europe and learned a lot from them. Here is my write up of this amazing opportunity I had to learn from others. (1/2) macroeconomicpolicynexus.sub… @RobinWigg @robin_j_brooks @ChrisGiles_ @MaryDalyEcon @Austan_Goolsbee @paulwinfree @annap_2013
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
It says so much about the current state of the GOP that most of its leaders are exclusively blaming immigration for what's going on in France, while remaining silent about how excessive public benefits for retirees and over-regulated labor markets have bankrupted the country.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Tens of millions died in the Chinese Great Famine in Mao's Great Leap Forward.
'Leaving the European Union was the biggest act of economic self harm any country has ever committed'
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told #BBCBreakfast Andy Burnham 'is spot on' about having an "honest discussion" ove the prospect of returning to free movement between the UK and European Union
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e3…
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Call me crazy, but I am actually more critical of Putin than Norway. But to each his own, I guess.
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a ‘shit house country’ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
I was on @CSPAN's WASHINGTON JOURNAL @cspanwj discussing my new @EncounterBooks THE CIVILIZATION OF COMMERCE. You can watch the 40-minute conversation here:
c-span.org/program/washingto…
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Et vous Monsieur Zucman votre rhétorique entretient la haine et la detestation. Vous transformez l’envie en vertu. Un pays où la pression fiscale etouffe l’activit, vos reconditions don’t irresponsables.
Bonsoir M. le Premier ministre @SebLecornu , vous ne pourrez pas maintenir éternellement les privilèges fiscaux des ultra-riches.
La revendication de justice fiscale qui émerge des manifestations est légitime : rien ne justifie le maintien d’un système fiscal dans lequel les milliardaires comme @BernardArnault contribuent moins que le reste d’entre nous.
Rien.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Le problème central du tweet est très simple et il n’y a pas à tergiverser des heures dessus.
Le taux d’intérêt est un prix d’équilibre, pas une donnée du problème.
La dette allemande est plus attractive à un taux d’intérêt donné, donc la France doit offrir un taux supérieur pour que les investisseurs soient en moyenne indifférents à détenir des obligations allemandes ou françaises.
La différence entre les deux taux n’est pas un avantage ou un désavantage d’un pays ou de l’autre: c’est le prix de marché du désavantage de la France.
Le tweet d’origine est absurde car il confond une variable libre (le prix) du problème avec une donnée de celui-ci (le risque du prêteur).
Il est équivalent à affirmer que l’écart de salaire entre un diplômé d’HEC et de la « Paris School of Business » est un problème pour HEC, car en l’absence de différence de qualité entre les deux écoles, les employeurs préfèrent recruter les diplômés moins coûteux.
Vous avez été nombreux à réagir à ce tweet.
Et la pauvreté du raisonnement de certains me déçoit beaucoup (je ne parle pas des trolls).
Visiblement quelques rappels s'imposent.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Reminder to @oren_cass that America hates his tariff agenda.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that a fascist dictator has invaded its democratic neighbor—a country that is an American ally & whose security we promised to support—and is savagely murdering its people, all with the blessing of the White House.
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.
The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
See the conversation with @DrSamuelGregg here: c-span.org/program/washingto…
Author and American Institute for Economic Research's Samuel Gregg (@DrSamuelGregg) discusses his concerns about the growing popularity of socialism in the U.S. and the need for free-market advocates to make a better case for capitalism.
LIVE: tinyurl.com/3awhhtwx
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