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It’s M.P., not Haryana or Punjab, which reaped the benefits of MSP the most December 23, 2020 MSP is not an economically efficient× The protest against the Centre’s newly introduced farm laws is loudest in Punjab and Haryana, where the MSP mechanism is robust, benefiting wheat growing farmers. However, government data shows that Madhya Pradesh farmers have steadily taken over wheat growers in Punjab and Haryana to reap benefits of MSP in the last five years. Data from rabi marketing season...

Some place else. some of the companies leaving china are electronics, and go pro. look at this quote from the ceo control tech, a company used to have a lot of people in china. >> we designed china out. just think about that for a moment. that is a massive policy lesson. the american manufacture, president trump comes in and you see immediate private sector response and we designed china out. trumps tariffs derided by the establishment of turning out to be the most consequential and positive eco...

Some place else. some of the companies leaving china are electronics, and go pro. look at this quote from the ceo control tech, a company used to have a lot of people in china. >> we designed china out. just think about that for a moment. that is a massive policy lesson. the american manufacture, president trump comes in and you see immediate private sector response and we designed china out. trumps tariffs derided by the establishment of turning out to be the most consequential and positive eco...

Where someone shot up a community college, if that had been an isis jihadi, that wouldnt have been a two or three-day story. that would be paris level coverage. >> correct. >> what is that? >> in what sense? >> i mean, what is that? why is that reaction so different? >> well, i think youre picking one particular mass shooting that probably got -- and again, i dont know this for a fact. the least amount of coverage. >> well, partly because weve become inured to it. >> sure. thats 100% the easy an...

Wouldnt have been a two or three-day story. that would be paris level coverage. >> correct. >> what is that? >> in what sense? >> i mean, what is that? why is that reaction so different? >> well, i think youre picking one particular mass shooting that probably got -- and again, i dont know this for a fact. the least amount of coverage. >> well, partly because weve become inured to it. >> sure. thats 100% the easy answer. but you could also argue that newtown, the virginia shooting that happened ...

Where someone shot up a community college, if that had been an isis jihadi, that wouldnt have been a two or three-day story. that would be paris level coverage. >> correct. >> what is that? >> in what sense? >> i mean, what is that? why is that reaction so different? >> well, i think youre picking one particular mass shooting that probably got -- and again, i dont know this for a fact -- the least amount of coverage. >> well, partly because weve become inured to it. >> sure. thats 100% the easy ...

With my colleague, avik, on this point. its not like the opposition was saying, if you do this, if you increase taxes and then you do a bunch of other stuff that goes the other way, somehow well be okay. they were saying clearly, as theyre still saying today f you increase taxes on a fairly narrow slice at the top of the income scale, everythings going to go to hell in a hand basket. the economys going to tank. not only did that not occur, as youve stressed, but in the very next decade we had th...

security secrets. the leaks are the source of how president obama and his aids pick targets for drones. the other detailed irans nuclear program. the fbi confirmed it is investigating that leak. senator john mccain says the fbi is fine but he wants an outside special counsel to lead the investigation. he said he suspects the obama administration is leaking this information to make the president look good. >> the portrayal of the president in these stories is of why usually nothing shor...

Senate. however, the one place where they have a really, really good shot at a take swrnaway, taking a republican seat is in massachusetts. this gives them hope theyll be able to do that. >> the warren surge, if he can call it that and if it continues, if we get to watch this, seems to have lessons in it. what is elizabeth warren known for? she is known for government regulation. she is the pro-regulation candidate. republicans are saying everything, you know, thats wrong in our economy is about...

Able to do that. >> the warren surge, if he can call it that and if it continues, if we get to watch this, seems to have lessons in it. what is elizabeth warren known for? she is known for government regulation. she is the pro-regulation candidate. republicans are saying everything, you know, thats wrong in our economy is about regulation. it seems to me that if she is going to run strong in that state, which is capable of voting for a republican, its shown that it is, then there is a kind of po...