Now, Trump is threatening to double down on his Iran disaster. “President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to destroy Iran’s major oil terminal on Kharg Island if Tehran continued to obstruct shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.” Trump fancies himself as a deal-maker. Any deal-maker who can bankrupt a casino is a fool. This latest […]
The only solutions being offered up for healthcare in America are political, favoring industry and healthcare. The issue being this form of healthcare is too expensive. Time to take a step back. Merrill Goozner @ GoozNews, “A health care plan for the mid-terms” Americans say health care affordability is their number one pocketbook concern. In […]
The de facto closing of the Strait of Hormuz resulting from Trump’s little war impacts supply chains besides transportation. “Farmers in the U.S. and Canada, who were already worried about prospects for another year of low profits or losses, now could have spring planting disrupted as they struggle to find fertilizer, and prices for any […]
Just waiting for the economy to worsen as oil prices go up. Trump is making stuff up to tell others and relieve his fears. This is not a good situation for us to be in now. As New Deal democrat reports, it does not appear the economy has grown much since Trump took office. We […]
This KFF commentary is from EOM September 2025. I have added more detail to it. The detail was there. It was on various pages. I added charts side by side so the reader can see in one picture the differences for each age group. This was meant to portray the information in an easier to […]
I subscribe to Robert’s site. Every once and a while, I see a commentary I like. In which case I post it. This commentary by Robert is about a week old. It still has impact and bearing to what is going on with the Trump presidency. It is amazing, he was ever elected considering his […]
“Jobless claims continue at very low levels (plus an update on tech enshittification)” – by New Deal democrat I’ll post on the updated housing situation later this morning. Meanwhile, before I get to jobless claims, a brief update on the tech situation. It turns out that I am not the only person having this problem. Basically […]
At Angry Bear, Dale Coberly is the resident expert on Social Security. He is the go-to person for questions or discussions. Dale and Bruce Webb wrote on the topic and were known for their knowledge. The issue here being, we are running a shortage of funding. There is still time to correct SS with small […]
Charts below are taken from Gas Buddy and cover one month (left) and six months (right) of pricing trends. As you can see, fuel prices were on a downward trend having hit a low in and around January 2026. Pricing had dropped ~ 40 cents per gallon. I can tell you similar did not occur […]
There were few if any Chinese students in my college classes and none in my graduate program. There was only one Chinese postdoc in the lab where I did postdoctoral training, and no Chinese grad students. But two of the four grad students who started in my department when I started as a faculty in […]