Watching the spectacle of Trump's final days makes me think about ... interest rates. Bear with me a minute 1/ https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1340349856574038017
If you follow economics you may be aware how the consensus keeps predicting a return to normal interest rates, which keeps not happening 2/
Sample chart 3/
So it occurs to me that one could make a similar chart for Trump crazy, which people keep predicting will eventually subside 4/
Based on experience so far, nobody should count on any normalization. The only reason not to expect scenes of the Secret Service frog-marching him out is his lack of physical courage 5/
Also, how is it that I haven't seen anyone else make this bad joke? 6/
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