I have not seen where the Senate has confirmed RFK (in name only) yet. Maybe it is happening as I type this commentary? A few thoughts come to pass as I read certain articles. There always seem to be a few amongst the Democrats who will shoot the party and themselves in their respective feet […]
The latter part of New Deal’s report on January 2025 Jobs portends of things to come in the economic reporting of Employment and Unemployment statistics. It is thought the accuracy of the reporting “may” change going forward. We hope not. It is a possibility with this administration. If unreported, it is taken as never happening. […]
The Flaw in Musk’s Plan which a Military Veteran Exposed Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s ploy to strong-arm large sections of the federal workforce into taking “deferred resignations” is not going to work, wrote Michael Embrich for Rolling Stone. Federal workers were given this offer by a bizarre email titled “Fork in the Road.” An ultimatum eerily similar […]
In the last two elections (2016 and 2020), the specter of voter fraud arises. Such in both elections was disproven or mostly disproven. There will be voting issue on a different order outside of fraud. In both 2016 and 2020 Candidate and President Trump raised the issue of voter fraud. In 2024 we heard similar […]
When overwhelming becomes an understatement. When the diversion to conceal a coup could bring down the United States of America. Except for us, the world has come to understand that the United States of Yore no longer exists. That we are now simply Trump and who in the hell would be dumb enough to trust […]
I recently reread Hayek’s most famous paper, The Use of Knowledge in Society, written in 1945. I hadn’t read it in many years. Page for page, TUKS is perhaps the most insightful economics paper ever written. Every undergraduate economics major should read it. I am not sure how many other papers written before 1960 […]
Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.) is a physician. I’m sure he’s pretty smart, but as I’m frequently caused to observe, the traits of high intelligence are unlinked. Dr. Cassidy is exercising poor medical judgement by supporting RFK Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of HHS, although he may be showing good political judgement. “Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD […]
It was mid-January 2025 Angry Bear had mentioned in a commentary about Jared Kushner thoughts on The Gaza. The brief comment was in “Undercounting The Gaza Death Toll,” Angry Bear. Enough is enough. They have extracted their pound of flesh. Maybe it is the beach front property Jared Kushner was reported to have talked about […]
The National Science Foundation is one of the nation’s premier agencies to advance non-biomedical research (the NIH has the biomedical research portfolio). Full disclosure: I was principle investigator on three NSF grants in my career and served on six NSF review panels that made grant funding recommendations. Now, the Trump administration wants to tear that […]
You are going to see the same pie chart further on down in Paul Krugman’s piece. I placed this pie chart in the beginning here so as to give readers an idea just how big the outlays are for the USAID. In comparison, Musk’s mighty achievement is .006% of the total. But there is more […]