The stress of being who he is and how he conducts himself to others and the social media may be catching up with him. Cartooning himself as a person being omnipotent and others as characters is not helping his image as the president of the most powerful(?) nation in the world. Rather an interesting commentary […]

Jobless claims continue to be the most positive metric in the array of economic indicators   – by New Deal democrat The new regime of lower jobless claims continued this week. Initial claims declined -11,000 to 207,000, while the four week moving average rose 500 to 209,750. Both of these remain within a stone’s throw […]

“Why the Cassidy Hutchinson Investigation Should Make Us Very Uncomfortable,” Civil Discourse I don’t know Cassidy Hutchinson, the former deputy to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who flipped and became a star witness during the January 6 Committee hearings and who is now reportedly under investigation. I don’t have an independent basis for knowing whether […]

The goal for China was always to be a global leader. Nothing has changed. My trips to various Chinese facilities building automotive components for US automotive countries, I could see how their technology was evolving. The United States did help them real such heights by sourcing production to their overseas plants. China could copy the […]

“Meg”: Look, the reason Chinese cars are affordable is that they are subsidized by the Chinese government. Heavily. Removing import restrictions on these cars would devastate the American car industry. We are talking hundreds of thousands of jobs lost. How about instead we have the American government subsidize affordable cars here, or return to requiring […]

“At Least 88 Big US Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax Last Year,” Common Dreams, Stephen Prager Dozens of America’s most profitable corporations avoided paying any federal income taxes in 2025, according to an analysis out on Tuesday from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. What Companies Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2025? The companies avoiding […]

“Stock market at new highs, even with Strait of Hormuz still closed. What is Wall Street thinking?!?”  – by New Deal democrat As I type this, there are two particularly salient facts:  1. Although the US and Iran are not lobbing bombs at one another at the moment, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.  2. […]

California Economist David Zetland now living in Amsterdam giving us his perspective from Europe about the Strait of Hormuz. As usual, it reads a bit different than what we are hearing in the United States. I would expect such from someone based in Europe. War, oil, trade and profiteering – The one-handed economist America’s “Stable […]

Grabbed one section out of a longer piece by the Roosevelt Institute on Long Term Care. I am betting many Baby Boomers lack such. I also suspect they have no other resource either. Not a difficult read. III. Long-Term Care Depletes Assets for Middle-Class Americans and Contributes to Widening Wealth Inequality, Roosevelt Institute For millions […]

 – by New Deal democrat Sometimes there just isn’t much drama in economic numbers, and that was certainly the case for this month’s edition of existing home sales. As a mild refresher, even though they constitute about 90% of all housing sales, existing sales are not nearly so important as new home sales, since the latter […]