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With Mueller, JOHN S. MCCAIN, 1936-2018 TYING BEHEMOTHS Measured Past TO STAGNANT PAY Hints at Future AND LOW GROWTH Tight-Lipped, Dogged and by the Book ‘AMAZON EFFECT’ IS EYED

By MATT APUZZO Central Bankers Explore WASHINGTON — Long before the convictions last week of two Outsize Influence of former members of President Trump’s inner circle, the political a Few Employers left’s expectations for the Russia investigation were at a fever pitch. By NEIL IRWIN Democrats predicted that the JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Two special counsel, Robert S. Mueller of the most important economic III, would break with a half-cen- facts of the last few decades are tury of policy and prosecute a sit- that more industries are being ting president. One MSNBC panel dominated by a handful of ex- considered how to arrest him if he traordinarily successful compa- refuses to leave the White House. nies and that wages, inflation and (Answer: “At some point, he is go- growth have remained stubbornly ing to have to come out.”) low. Mr. Mueller, a lifelong Republi- Many of the world’s most pow- can who is an unlikely hero for the erful economic policymakers are anti-Trump resistance, faces a se- now taking seriously the possibil- ries of crucial decisions in the ity that the first of those facts is a coming months. Will he subpoena cause of the second — and that the the president? Recommend growing concentration of corpo- charges? Will he write a public re- rate power has confounded the ef- port? Each could help sway the forts of central banks to keep midterm elections and shape the economies healthy. future of the presidency itself. Mainstream economists are

For insight on what he will do STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES discussing questions like whether next, those who have known him Senator John McCain of Arizona during his 2008 presidential run. A survivor of torture, he won six terms in the Senate. “monopsony” — the outsize for years say, do not look at the power of a few consolidated em- mythology that has built up since ployers — is part of the problem of Mr. Mueller was appointed 15 low wage growth. They are look- months ago. Look instead to his ing at whether the “superstar four decades of government serv- A Symbol of Courage in Half a Century of Battles firms” that dominate many lead- ice. ing industries are responsible for As he advanced from line pros- party’s drive to repeal the Af- arms behind him. He attempted sluggish investment spending. ecutor to top Justice Department By ROBERT D. McFADDEN fordable Care Act. But while he Rising from anguish suicide twice. His weight fell to And they’re exploring whether official to head was unable to be in the Senate 105 pounds. He rejected early there is an “Amazon Effect” in John S. McCain, the proud na- of the F.B.I., his for a vote on the Republican tax release to keep his honor and to which fast-changing pricing algo- val aviator who climbed from in Vietnam to power time was bill in December, his endorse- avoid an enemy propaganda rithms by the online retailer and depths of despair as a prisoner marked by ag- ment was crucial, though not de- coup or risk demoralizing his its rivals mean bigger swings in of war in Vietnam to pinnacles of in Washington. gressive pros- cisive, in the Trump administra- fellow prisoners. inflation. power as a Republican con- ecutions but tion’s lone legislative triumph of If not yet fully embraced, the gressman and senator from Ari- He finally cracked under tor- also a defer- the year. ture and signed a “confession.” ideas have become prominent zona and a two-time contender foul curses at his captors. Be- ence at key mo- A son and grandson of four- No one believed it, although he enough that this weekend, at an for the presidency, died on Sat- cause his father was the com- ments to prece- star admirals who were his felt the burden of betraying his annual symposium in the Grand urday at his home in Arizona. He mander of all American forces in dent, tradition larger-than-life heroes, Mr. Mc- country. To millions of Ameri- Tetons, leaders of the Federal Re- was 81. the Pacific during most of his Robert S. and higher of- Cain carried his renowned name cans, Mr. McCain was the em- serve and other central banks dis- According to a statement five and a half years of captivity, Mueller III fice. “He’s the into battle and into political bodiment of courage: a war hero cussed whether corporate con- from his office, Mr. McCain died fights for more than a half- Mr. McCain, a Navy lieutenant last guy who’s who came home on crutches, solidation might have broad impli- at 4:28 p.m. local time. He had century. It was an odyssey driv- commander, became the most going to do anything that’s even psychologically scarred and cations for economic policy. suffered from a malignant brain en by raw ambition, the conser- famous prisoner of the war, a slightly a departure from the bed- broken in body, but not in spirit. “A few years ago, questions of tumor, called a glioblastoma, for vative instincts of a shrewd mili- victim of horrendous torture rock principles,” said Glenn He underwent long medical monopoly power were studied by Kirschner, who worked alongside which he had been treated peri- tary man, a rebelliousness evi- and a tool of enemy propagan- specialists in a very technical way, odically with radiation and che- dent since childhood and a tem- dists. treatments and rehabilitation, Mr. Mueller as a homicide pros- but was left permanently dis- without linking them to the ecutor. motherapy since its discovery in per that sometimes bordered on Shot down over Hanoi, suffer- broader issues that animate eco- 2017. explosiveness. ing broken arms and a shattered abled, unable to raise his arms The special counsel investiga- over his head. Someone had to nomic policy,” said Jason Furman, tion has followed a familiar path, Despite his grave condition, Nowhere were those traits leg, he was subjected to solitary an economist at Harvard’s Ken- comb his hair. colleagues said, largely because he soon made a dramatic ap- more manifest than in Vietnam, confinement for two years and nedy School of Government, who His mother, Roberta McCain, Mr. Mueller, a publicity-averse 74- pearance in the Senate to cast a where he was stripped of all but beaten frequently. Often he was advanced some of these ideas in year-old who is as conservative as thumbs-down vote against his his character. He boiled over in suspended by ropes lashing his Continued on Page 16 his former job as the Obama Continued on Page 19 Continued on Page 15

NEWS ANALYSIS Women in Politics Often Must Run a Gantlet of Vile Intimidation Why Musk Lost Trump Assails and threats, already common for Someone crept onto her prop- His Thirst to Go By MAGGIE ASTOR CAMPAIGNING WHILE FEMALE women, can be amplified in poli- erty overnight and put up a “for A Hostile Reception tical races — especially if the can- sale” sign. The neo-Nazi website Legal System, Four days before the 2016 con- didate is a member of a minority The Daily Stormer published an Private at Tesla gressional primary in her North- group. article (no longer available) titled, ern California district, Erin can Women and Politics at Rut- Last year, sexist and anti-Se- as Ms. Weaver recalled it, “Meet Eroding Trust Schrode woke up to tens of thou- gers University. Many more are mitic abuse helped drive Kim the Whore Who’s Running By DAVID GELLES sands of messages. They were ev- running for state legislatures and Weaver, an Iowa Democrat, out of Against Steve King,” increasing When Elon Musk declared this erywhere: in her email, on her local offices. And in the process, her race against Representative what was already an onslaught of month that he wanted to take cellphone, on her Facebook and By MICHAEL D. SHEAR they are finding that harassment Steve King. Continued on Page 14 Tesla private, his board was and KATIE BENNER her Twitter and her Instagram. “All would laugh with glee as caught off guard. Barely three WASHINGTON — It is a once- they gang raped her and then weeks later, the chief executive unimaginable scenario: Some- bashed her bagel eating brains told the board he had changed his time soon in an American court- in,” one said. mind. Tesla would be staying pub- room, a criminal defense lawyer “It’d be amusing to see her take lic, after all. may argue that the prosecution twenty or so for 8 or 10 hours,” an- The startling reversal — an- of an MS-13 gang member is a other said, again suggesting nounced in a blog post late Friday, politically motivated “witch gang-rape. a day after he discussed it with di- hunt” built around a witness who It has been two years since Ms. rectors — capped a tumultuous has “flipped” and taken what the Schrode, now 27, lost her Demo- series of moves that drew in Wall lawyer calls a plea deal of dubi- cratic primary and moved on. But Street’s biggest investment ous legality. the abuse — a toxic sludge of on- banks, prompted an investigation He will be quoting the presi- line trolling steeped in misogyny by regulators and raised fresh dent of the United States. and anti-Semitism that also in- questions about Mr. Musk’s lead- That is potentially the gravest cluded photoshopped images of ership. danger of President Trump’s her face stretched into a Nazi In that time, according to five sustained verbal assault on the lampshade and references to people close to the events, Mr. country’s justice system, legal “preheating the ovens” — never Musk came to realize that his experts say. In his attempt at stopped. thinking had been simplistic. self-defense amid the swirl of “She needs to stop moving her While going private might have legal cases and investigations hands around like a crackhead,” removed some problems, it would involving himself, his aides and said one tweet this year. “Another have introduced new ones. his associates, Mr. Trump is feminazi’s plans foiled!” said an- Among his concerns were ced- directly undermining the people other. ing too much control to private in- and processes that are the foun- The 2018 election cycle has vestors — including conventional dation of the nation’s administra- brought a surge of female candi- car companies and Saudi Arabia, tion of justice. dates. A record number of women POOL PHOTO BY STEFANO RELLANDINI a symbol of big oil — and shutting The result is a president at war ran or are running for the Senate, out smaller investors who might with the law. the House and governorships, ac- Remembering Abuse Victims in Ireland be unable to retain a stake. Continued on Page 20 cording to the Center for Ameri- Pope Francis, praying in Dublin on Saturday, expressed regret for a legacy of sexual abuse. Page 11. Continued on Page A15

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