Its appears Coca-Cola will be launching a cane-sugar soda this fall in the U.S. The beverage company announced its implementation in its second quarter earnings on Tuesday. This, according to Hannah Parker at Quartz. The new product announcement comes nearly a week after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday to declare Coca-Cola agreed to switch […]
The government funding for public broadcasting is relatively small in the scheme of things. In total an ~ 1.1 billion. ~$535 million appropriated for fiscal year 2026 under the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, and another $535 million under the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act of 2025. It does play a role getting information out to […]
Been following this issue for a while. Pulled this from an Atlantic article from December 2024. In the 1980s, consumers did more than half of their grocery shopping at independent stores. This included both single-location businesses and small, locally owned chains. This changed in the 1980s. Convinced tough antitrust enforcement was holding back American business, […]
Posted commentary by Daniel Becker on Facebook “For those of you who think your taxes are paying for the undocumented immigrant. Actually, they are paying for you. How you say? Because they will never be able to receive the full benefits of the taxes they pay.” “More than a third of the tax dollars paid […]
I have not seen something like this for a decade or so. But then too, I was not in academia, I was off flitting around Asia and Europe working in the plants of various companies. This in an attempt to bring some type of order to supply chain with regard to manufacturing and ordering. If […]
My opinion? Excluding portions of the population living in the United States from healthcare does not make good logistics or sense for that matter. Even if they are illegal, students, or just touring. Sickly people endanger the rest of the nation. The nation will end up spending more by reducing healthcare to them. It has […]
Public trust in FDA decisions will plummet if Commissioner Marty Makary abandons the agency’s “gold standard” principles. Gooz News – Merrill Goozner FDA Commissioner Marty Makary had every right to revisit the benefits and risks of taking hormones to treat severe menopause symptoms. The agency currently warns they may increase the risk of heart attacks, […]
The focus of this and past presidencies has been on immigration legal and illegal. The influx of unestablished legal immigrants has been higher than normal. Past presidents have talked to it and taken action. It was not till this presidency that a more personal look by this president has taken the forefront. He deficiently does […]
If you have not noticed, the present administration has come all out for the upper income citizens. It was the low-and middle-income citizens which put our president in office either by voting or not voting. My point? Yes, the present administration will eventually be out of office. Then we have the House and the Senate […]
Louis Brandeis says it all. Or did he? by Steve Roth Originally posted at Wealth Economics I do so love diligent lifelong scholars (“experts,” in today’s deprecatory usage) sharing with us their excruciatingly detailed research into areas in which I have a deeply curious interest, but where I lack the wherewithal or energy to properly […]