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A plan for full privatization of the USPS appears to have lost steam

Long time acquaintance Steve Hutkins had this Washington Post article (taken from the archives) on his site from late March. It is an update at to where the privatization of the USPS status is today. To sum it up? It may be, the USPS is too big to swallow. Save The Post Office, Steve Hutkins […]

March retail sales were all about front-running T—-p’s tariffs

 – by New Deal democrat Normally real retail sales is one of the indicators I treat as most important, because it tells us so much about consumer behavior, which is not only 70% of the economy, but also has a lengthy track record for leading both employment and the coincident indicators for recession. Not this […]

The AOC and Sanders Crowds

It is time for a change by Democrats. For sure Kamala Harris handed Trump his . . . I was sitting in my chair laughing and he backed off. I am sure he knew why he could not go to a second debate with Kamala. And once again, voters would not accept a woman as […]

Trump, Just Letting You Know

“‘Trump Tariff’ Surcharges Appearing on Customer Bills,” Watch: Amid escalating U.S. China trade tensions, American companies are adding explicit “Trump tariff” surcharges to bills to offset the impact of tariffs. Trump Changes Mind on Illegal Immigrants: “One of the things I am doing, though, is I’m also making it easier on the farmers and the […]

About those law firm agreements

There’s a paywalled post over at TPM. Here are the nut grafs: “In other words, the notional agreements don’t appear to have any of the basic blocking and tackling features that constitute anything close to a contract. They don’t explicitly state who the parties to the agreement are. They don’t state the duration of the […]

Providing Healthcare to Rural Areas and Small Hospitals

Small hospitals and rural hospitals have always had issues in providing healthcare to those citizens utilizing them. Many citizens lack healthcare insurance due to cost which is one factor. Overhead for having equipment to care for parents is costly. Then there is the issue of manpower to care for patients from nurses on up to […]

Trump demands MAGA DEI at Harvard

The letter to Harvard that accompanied the Trump Administration funding freeze shows once again that whatever the right accuses others of is what they’re doing. In this case, the Administration demands affirmative action hires of MAGA political commissars under the guise of fighting antisemitism and promoting diversity. “Among other things, it requires the university to […]

The US bond market sends a warning; has the US crossed an economic Rubicon?

 – by New Deal democrat Martin Wolf of the Financial Times has called T—-p’s tariffs “an act of warfare against the entire world.” Perhaps it is not surprising that in the past week, the entire world has responded. Among other things,  per Eric Michael Garcia, “China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and […]