1 trillion dollars cut from healthcare for tax cuts and CMS Trump causes 3 or more million people to lose healthcare insurance. Snatching government assistance away from them is just a start. In case you did not know, the 3 million consisted of children. More cuts will come as healthcare is unsubsidized. Medicaid Cuts: The […]
I’m not an investment advisor. I do have personal experience in investing going back over 40 years. I’ve been retired for nearly two years and have no regrets so far. “Rental properties carry concentrated risk, illiquidity, and management overhead…The return needs to be significantly better [than an investment elsewhere] to justify the extra complexity. Often, […]
President Donald Trump returned from the spectacle of a Chinese state visit to a less than welcoming U.S. economy . . . with the military band and garden tour in Beijing giving way to pressure over how to fix America’s escalating inflation rate. I would be curious as to what the Chinese thought of the […]
– by New Deal democrat The bond market is sending the T—-p Administration, and the US government as a whole, a message. It believes the US is in a secular inflationary trend. This is not only because T—-p’s tariffs, and his boneheaded war with Iran, are inflationary, but also because last year’s Big Budget Bust-out […]
Biden passed a strong economy over to Trump. A few things Biden passed on to Trump is due to a strong economy: – Inflation was tamed without a recession. – Workers benefited from a strong labor market in years – Households, especially those limited by prior barriers, saw substantial wealth gains. Americans faced significant price […]
Continual progression of Going to War with the Latest (original title below). It is difficult to describe what this administration is doing. Just watching, they are dismantling many of the past programs and doctrine to provide a different view for domestic needs. The military is being given a significant boost in funding and power. And […]
– by New Deal democrat In the past month or two, a number of times I have been asked by friends and neighbors why, if the economy feels so bad, does the stock market keep making new record highs? And is this a Boom or a Bubble? Here is what I have been telling them. There […]
New Deal Democrat: Weekly Indicators: A Negative Steepening of Bond Yields And (Maybe) Shipping Rates Summary: Unsurprisingly, the big move among the high frequency indicators in the past week was interest rates. There was also a secondary big move, which is also inflationary, and reflects the ongoing idiocy of the current Administration in Washington: international […]
Yep, This one is from a couple of weeks ago. I like it because, we are seeing Trump destroy much of the economy, building debt, legislating tax giveaways to the upper 10% in the economy, snatching healthcare away from the middle and low in income citizens, and just being an ass. And Republicans are helping […]
I feel a decade has passed since I last wrote (or presented articles) about Hospital Corporations buying up hospitals, closing some, and creating monopolistic environments. This has had impact in rural areas and lower income parts of states and cities. Residents suffer in the end due to higher pricing and less care available to them. […]