Secondarily, J.P. McJefferson gives the specific reasons why Republicans are holding the bag on being responsible for governmental and political leadership. It is difficult to imagine why they fall in line with Trump and Miller’s demands. Comment extracted from an earlier post. “Republicans en mass are responsible for the complete chaos of the American government,” […]
I am hoping the author will grant us an allowance to follow-up on some of the commentaries as this is an important topic. Most Americans are not aware of the impact they have on the areas around them. I see this as one way of making them aware of their impact. A review of species […]
– by New Deal democrat As I indicated yesterday and earlier today, we got some stale data on factory orders this morning, as well as a JOLTS report for November. I’ll take a look at those tomorrow. In the meantime, the big news of the morning has to be the very good ISM services report for […]
AB: J.P. McJefferson’s comment in reply to a commentary by Ken Melvin, “The Republicans.” Ken, you are so right that Republicans en masse are the responsible party for the complete chaos of the American government. This great experiment of government, with its brilliantly designed checks and balances, was prepared to handle the misguided course of […]
– by New Deal democrat I will write about the biggest economic release of the day, the ISM services report for December, later. In the meantime, here are two other important data releases for December, one from a private source (ADP), and the other from the BEA’s GDP updates. As an initial matter, I don’t […]
It may be such that the United States may abandon Ukraine to the Russians just to get out of the situation of providing it weaponry. Ukraine is in a tough position with having to work with a US president who more likely than not favors Russia over them. Once again, the United States may just […]
Or maybe it is Venezuela capturing the United States? “Plot twist: Kidnapping a president” The one-handed economist So, Trump and his fellow-geniuses appear to think they’ve “hacked” the dilemma of diplomacy: If you’re annoyed with the actions of a sovereign country, then just kidnap their leader and claim that you can now run the country. […]
Press Release on the voluntary closing of the CPB. Done so as to protect the integrity of the Organization so as not to be abused by interests which may represent it in a different manner than what it has stood for over the years. The closure came about most recently by the Trump Administration cutting […]
There’s been a lot of crowing by Trump about how he’s seizing Venezuelan oil to hand it to American oil companies and skim profits for the United States. What oil, and how much? “According to figures widely cited throughout the media and the oil industry itself, Venezuela is sitting on around 300 billion barrels’ worth […]
This is really a good review of what special Council Jack Smith has to say about the investigation of Trump. I am sure there is more to be revealed from his testimony than what is in the is piece by Dan Rather. It’s Been a Long Time Coming Dan Rather @ Steady It may be […]