BuzzFeed News reported on Sunday that Trump also walked through the dressing rooms at the 2000 Miss USA pageant, where he watched the naked contestants prepare backstage. “I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed,” Trump tells Howard Stern. The recordings were released by CNN on Saturday. Trump continues, […]
Stan Fischer, vice-chairman of the Fed, gave a speech yesterday. (link) He said this… “As we noted in our statement, we continue to expect that the evolution of the economy will warrant some gradual increases in the federal funds rate over time to achieve and maintain our objectives. That assessment is based on our view […]
OMG. It came so late in the debate—the third-last question, the second-last on policy agenda, less than 10 minutes before the end. Asked what she would be looking for in selecting her Supreme Court nominees, she began not with a culture-wars answer or by referencing the need for diversity among the justices as concerned with […]
Lambert Strether at Naked Capitalism live blog from last night is here.
by Mike Kimel The British, the Germans and the Irish: A Look at How Traditions Survive Emigration Between 1921 and the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, about 70% of those admitted into the US came from the UK, Ireland, and Germany. In a roundabout way, I want to discuss what that has meant for […]
I am from Hawaii. I went to high school with Obama. I was a senior when he was a junior. In Hawaii, there are people from every culture and race of the world. There is respect for other people and cultures. It is the best training ground to develop appreciation for other cultures and body […]
As over 85% of Trump supporters say they are standing by him, let’s remember the economy. Labor share has to rise. Corporate profits have to decline. Corporate taxes have to rise. The general population needs to have more of a share of the liquidity sloshing around the world. Trump is in favor of a low […]
A friend of mine who is the appellant in federal litigation whose outcome she cares dearly about lives in a large swing state in which the presidential race and the Senate race are very close. She is not particularly political and does not follow political news, other than what’s on her Facebook feed, and has […]
Authored by Mike Kimel Here’s a story widely reported in England from earlier this year: A black former soldier is suing the Ministry of Defence after he was injured when his hands were exposed to temperatures of -30C during training. Abdoulie Bojang, 30, is suing for £200,000 after he suffered career-ending injuries when he was […]
Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America’s face to the world. — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 8, 2016 But Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, did the same. Romney is Mormon and follows Joseph Smith. Unfortunately there was no social media in his time.