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This is Milton Friedman casually giving the blueprint for @DOGE
1:12 PM · Nov 19, 2024
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https://x.com/sfliberty/status/1858936359949304105
That’s pretty cool. Smart men knew this in the 70’s and 80’s like Friedman and Trump, etc.
This really important to listen to, he makes so much sense.
>>22022419 THE TRIUMPH OF WILLIAM McKINLEY: WHY THE ELECTION OF 1896 STILL MATTERSPN
Good news Anons, researching McKinley, "Evidence From the Assignation of President McKinley61 pages, pdf attached, if it's too big, the link is below. I'm still trying to scout Rove's book, but for free, can't print it from the Google site. Thanks Anon or Anon's to piqued my interest, very exciting for me.
"POLITICAL DISCRETION AND ANTITRUST POLICY:"
EVIDENCE FROM THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT MCKINLEY
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
November 2018
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25237/w25237.pdf
This is the abstract and what they were studying and concluded. I wonder if PDJT has seen this?Was that the real reason they wanted to kill Trump, and still do?Above all other reasons, this would probably be the core, with the rest being somewhat important.
ABSTRACT
We study the importance of discretion in antitrust enforcement by analyzing the response of asset prices to the sudden accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency. During McKinley’s term in office the largest wave of merger activity in American history occurred, and his administration did not attempt to use antitrust laws to restrain any of those mergers. His vice president, Theodore
Roosevelt, was known to be a Progressive reformer and much more interested in controlling anticompetitive behavior. We find that firms with greater vulnerability to antitrust enforcement saw greater declines in their abnormal returns following McKinley’s assassination. The transition from McKinley to Roosevelt caused one of the most significant changes in antitrust enforcement of the Gilded Age—not from new legislation, ==but from a change in the approach taken to the
enforcement of existing law.==
Our results highlight the importance of enforcement efforts in antitrust.
Very interesting, and I'm not generally versed in monetary policy and anti-trust. But they isolate, how McKinley's policy that worked, were manipulated by other presidents, or just changed.
(PS if you are not interested in any of this, there's no need to announce it, or say you won't read it, why would anyone care?)
ANOTHER PAPER ONTHE IMPACT OF McKinley's Death on America and the Economy
Abstract: We use the assassination of President McKinley in September 1901 to measure the value of his Presidency to large corporations. McKinley’s campaigns were funded by major business interests, and while
in office he permitted an unprecedented wave of merger activity without much enforcement of antitrust laws. His Vice President,Theodore Roosevelt, was known to be a progressive reformer.Using newly collected data, we estimate the effect of McKinley’s assassination on share prices. We distinguish among firms with varying degrees of vulnerability to antitrust prosecution, and among firms with varying degrees of political influence. Our analysis indicates that firms with vulnerability to antitrust prosecution saw greater decreases
in their valuations following the assassination, suggesting that regulatory forbearance was an important mechanism by which firms benefited during McKinley’s Presidency. In contrast, we find little evidence that politically connected firms, such as those affiliated with the largest donors to the McKinley campaign, saw their values fall to a greater degree following the assassination.
https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/hilt.pdf
you are 100% right, and I'm sure there were other reasons, much more liked in everyway compared to most President's