USA Facts asks the question, “Are wages keeping up with inflation?” It answers the quest and then provides the data to support its contention. Saying “Yes. From January 2025 to January 2026, wages grew 1.9 percentage points faster than inflation.” When you are listening to the news or reading an article in one of the […]
I would not change this title for anything of value. For Trump, this is like playing with toy soldiers. He also thinks of those of us serving and who have served as snooks. Then such bravado on display by him. Tough Guy as long as someone else does the fighting. A man’s man as long […]
I am not so sure this war will last any longer than Trump and his dwarfs are in office. Once gone, someone will decide differently. I thought we gave up nation – building a decade or so back when! This not a place for the US to be except for an occasional cleanup in Aisle […]
I pulled this bullet point information from Josh Bivens piece on the Economic Policy Institute: “The Trump administration’s macroeconomic agenda harms affordability and raises inequality,” Economic Policy Institute. Graph showing the difference in return over 40 years versus Trump’s tax break for the wealthy in one year. It is the same return. It is interesting […]
Having read the part of processing rare earths in China when the United States has a sufficent supply of rare earths to sustain US Processing. It may make sense to process rare earths in the US. The possesses significant rare earth element (REE) deposits estimated to be > than 3.6 million tons. There are major […]
Some of the latest oil news from Oil Price, March 6, 2027 March 6. 2026: Brent tops $90 as the Strait of Hormuz closure halts Gulf oil flows and Iraq and Kuwait begin cutting output, fueling fears of a sharper price surge. “Oil Prices Hit $90 as Middle East Tensions Escalate,” Julianne Geiger, OIl Price, […]
This one has to go . . . Two forces are stopping sensible regulation of AI. He’s one of them. Pete Hegseth and the AI Doomsday Machine – Robert Reich Which is more important to you? Allowing Pete Hegseth to use artificial intelligence (AI) however he wants, OR preventing AI from doing mass surveillance of […]
– by New Deal democrat Let’s take our weekly look at jobless claims. As a reminder, I pay attention to these because they are a good short leading barometer of the economy in general, and the jobs market in particular. And the news this week continued to reflect the “new regime” of lower YoY claims […]
Interesting piece on a Mexico Volcano called El Chichón. Biggest fear is an economic impact similar as to what happened previously. “The 1982 eruption of El Chichón in Chiapas, Mexico, was the nation’s deadliest modern volcanic disaster, killing roughly 2,000 people and destroying nine villages with pyroclastic flows. The March-April explosions deposited up to 40 […]
Dan Rather talking about Trump’s ICE agent’s masking up. This is what people who commit crimes do so they are unidentifiable. The hide from their victims. Try identifying a masked person (officer or not) to a judge. And unless you can identify the person, the judge will dismiss. I know of no police officers doing […]