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The Trump administration claims oil is flowing normally again. There's just one problem CNNHormuz closure squeezes global economy as oil demand destruction intensifies, IEA says cnbc.comUS Sees Iran War Oil Supply Disruptions Lasting Through 2027 Bloomberg.comHormuz Standoff Derails Oil Supply Recovery and Deepens Demand Slump, IEA Says WSJ
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Iran war live: US fires on ship for defying blockade as Trump claims Hormuz control independent.co.ukThe Trump administration claims oil is flowing normally again. There's just one problem CNNHormuz closure squeezes global economy as oil demand destruction intensifies, IEA says CNBCHormuz Standoff Derails Oil Supply Recovery and Deepens Demand Slump, IEA Says WSJ
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David Ellison Floats Hollywood Exit as States Threaten His Warner Bros. Deal The New York TimesDavid Ellison Has Gamed Out His California Exit puck.newsParamount warns it's considering leaving California over antitrust fight PoliticoWGA Responds To David Ellison's Threat To Pull Paramount From CA DeadlineEllison to Move Paramount Out of California if
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What to know about Trump's Patriot Games for high school athletes BBCWATCH: President Trump lands in Cleveland to attend Patriot Games in Geneva FOX 8 NewsTrump's Patriot Games are billed as a youth sports contest. They're also a test of patriotic branding CNNPat McAfee attends sporting event with President Trump wearing jeans and a backwards cap Fox News
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THEY have been at this a long time. In 1994 Republicans, newly in charge of Congress, held hearings on what would come to be called 'dynamic scoring'. Bills, they said, should be evaluated using the predictive power of macroeconomic models. If the model predicts more GDP growth, then it could be inferred that the growth would produce more tax revenue. During the hearings, however, came an awkward moment. Alan Greenspan, then in charge of the Federal Reserve, told Congress that macroeconomic models were 'deficient'. That is, their predictive power, though interesting, was not good enough to rely on. Last year, after the election of Donald Trump, your blogger contacted Mr Greenspan to see whether the models were good enough yet. Mr Greenspan, his office responded, had not yet changed his opinion.Neither have Republicans. Over the past two decades, in and out of control of Congress, the party has nudged dynamic scoring successively closer to the official policy process until we arrived, yesterday evening, at as dramatic a moment as macroeconomic analysis ever gets. The Joint Committee on Taxation, the nonpartisan Congressional body responsible for evaluating tax proposals, hurried its study (PDF) out on a Thursday afternoon as the Senate was preparing to approve a tax cut. That cut, ...
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