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Conspiracy Theories on What Motivated a Shooting

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar giving us his take on the most recent violence the United States has experienced. By the way, I lived in Michigan. I did not see what is being said. If anything, the state was controlled by automotive, One squeak of relocation is bound to whip people into obedience. The other thing to keep […]

Moving heaven & earth to get the tax credits extended

The other person, I follow on healthcare and the ACA. He lives in Michigan like I did before we moved to the desert. Kind of miss the Green. “Dear Democrats: I’m the guy who’s moving heaven & earth to get the tax credits extended, and I’m telling you not to cave for a short-term fix.” […]

Two Industries Which Would Be Better-off if Modernized

Trump administration’s tariffs on U.S. imports are passing through the supply chains and ending up impacting the consumers wallet in the form of increasing prices. There is no way to avoid these increases in the US. These are two industries which are disproportionately worse-off, I am familiar with due to my experience in manufacturing. They […]

The AI stock price bubble and consumer spending Ponzi loop?

 – by New Deal democrat One of this things that has puzzled me for the last few months is why consumer spending has remained so strong in the face of so many headwinds in the economy, some from horrible policy coming out of Washington, some embedded in the long leading and short leading sectors.  There is […]

Some More Lies and Story Telling from the White House

Twist and turn the realities of the occurrences to those who had no part in what events occur. When you harvest the events of promised violence, you sometimes find it comes back at you. Silence is often times far better. This will all pass as well as his time in the White House. It is […]

Hear Me!

John Thune, Mike Johnson, …, Republican Party leaders, whoever you are; please, please, wake the f*ck up! You and your predecessors got us into this god awful situation. Now, you and you alone have the power to stop the bleeding. The power to rid us of this demented, lunatical, old bastard occupying the office in […]

“Abundance Denied”

Building and investment is stifled by the current regulatory regimes. Hence abundance denied. Of course, to gain some of the abundance Sam Walker discusses need investments newer infrastructure to support faster trains. he system is lacking the funding. Sam Walker . . . My following the railroad industry comes from growing up at Hollidaysburg, PA. […]

Initial claims have a Texas-sized increase

– by New Deal democrat I’ll post about the CPI later this morning. But unusually, the biggest news of the morning was initial jobless claims, which spiked to 263,000, an increase of 27,000 from the previous week. The four week moving average increased 9,750 to 240,500. Meanwhile, with the typical one week delay, continuing claims were […]