One Year Later, Trump’s Big Ugly Bill Is Making America Unaffordable, Uninhabitable, and Ugly . . . Brief one with a few words and a bunch of numbers depicting where we are as Tr__P and his merry band of sycophants’ mess with the economy. Not one will step forward and call him out as to […]

I would avoid going to court at all costs. There is always the chance you will lose. In this case, the accused did not have much of a choice. In which case I would hire the best attorney I could. If you are facing jail or prison as the outcome? If you lose, you do […]

I’ve been enjoying David McWilliams’s podcast for a few years now, and I was planning to ignore his 2024 book on the history of money until I didn’t, and I’m glad I read it. Review by The One-Handed Economist, David Zetland. McWilliams (DM) is a story teller, but he’s also a legit academic economist with decades of […]

But rather than taking advantage of this opportunity to craft an economic alliance that would maximize leverage over China, the Trump administration has gone in the opposite direction. It has levied high tariffs on its own allies, many of which were also pressured into committing to huge investments in the United States. Washington tightened the […]

 – by New Deal democrat In last month’s note on new home sales,  I concluded that “This is all but unique. Historically a recession will not occur until inventory turns down again. But to reiterate, housing has been recessionary for a year, and yet no recession has occurred.” Earlier this month, I described the housing market […]

Most certainly, gasoline costs at the pump are mostly the result of the nation’s priorities internationally. Did we have to be involved with Iran over the past few months. No. This was our presidential ego getting in the way of the nation and citizen’s needs and priorities. A presidential ego getting in the way of […]

I’ve never paid much attention to cars, but the Ford Edsel was already a punchline when I was a kid. I don’t know if I ever saw one, but any reference to it seemed to be accompanied by a smirk. “The Edsel is one of the greatest and most infamous flops in automotive history, but […]

 – by New Deal democrat [Administrative note: yesterday’s problem, in which the platform would not allow me add a new post, seems to have spontaneously resolved, although “officially” the blog metrics show “0 posts” in all its history, Cross your fingers that this issue has gone away permanently.] I discussed the stock market’s very positive performance earlier […]

Findings of the Republican and President Tr__p attack on labor and foreign Labor in surge and non-surge communities. If you scroll down on the Brooking’s article you will find figures 3 & 4 as mentioned in the footnotes in section “The enforcement surge cost 668,000 jobs” below. “Shock, awe, and economic fallout” | Brookings Brookings: […]

I added some more charts and some wording to give the original piece greater depth The Big Corporations That Avoided All Federal Income Taxes: ITEP published a list of 88 profitable corporations that reported paying zero federal income taxes on their 2025 U.S. income, in no small part due to the corporate tax cuts pushed through […]