RealityChek
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This is a blog to follow if you're sick and tired of the usually brain-dead left, right, and centrist conventional wisdom filling the media (mainstream and not) on economics, foreign policy, politics, and life in general. Alan Tonelson (that's me) is RealityChek's founder and voice. He has just finished more than 30 years of senior positions at leading US think tanks and..
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2d ago
This morning’s official monthly U.S. jobs figures (for November) definitely represented bounce-back results – and then some – from an ..read more
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2d ago
Today’s official report on U.S. trade flows (for October) is a great example of how jumpy, and therefore usually not ..read more
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6d ago
An important debate may be brewing inside Trump World (and indeed, inside Mr. Trump’s head) about how to deal with ..read more
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1w ago
I’m pleased to announce a media daily double. Just before Thanksgiving, I appeared twice on the nationally syndicated “CBS Eye ..read more
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1w ago
The New York Times came out this morning with a detailed analysis of last month’s presidential vote in New York ..read more
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1w ago
Not surprisingly, the impact of individual policy decisions can’t validly be judged in isolation – including when it comes to ..read more
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1w ago
I’m pleased to announce that I’m scheduled to be back tonight on the nationally syndicated “CBS Eye on the World ..read more
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2w ago
At this late point in the Trump transition, it’s looking very much like his first term U.S. Trade Representative Robert ..read more
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2w ago
There’s no doubt that Martin Wolf, economic columnist for London’s Financial Times, is one smart bloke. Except usually when he ..read more
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2w ago
Democrats, many traditional Republicans, and their mouthpieces in the Mainstream Media and academia are still arguing over how to interpret ..read more