How’s Biden doing at combating corruption?
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My last newsletter hit your inboxes at the end of 2020, just as Congress was teetering on the brink of passing Corporate Transparency into law in the United States, and I wondered whether Republican members would have the nerve to override a veto by President Trump. It’s not even been three months, but that already feels like it took place in another age. Congress did indeed hold its nerve, the desperately overdue measure became law, and mercifully we have no idea what Trump thought about it.
I was glad to see the back of 2020, and the thing I miss least about it is Donald Trump’s Twitter account. It was like having to wear a loud and annoying duck as a hat all of the time. The absence of quacking is Just Bliss.