Another interesting piece by Federal Tax Policy Vice President Erica York at the Tax Foundation. One premise . . . “an analysis suggests the administration could replace 56% to 73% of IEEPA revenue using Section 122 tariffs.” Over the past week, we received final tariff collections data for 2025 from the Treasury Department, a new Beige Book from the Fed, and a […]
“Leaders realize they will not be able to ‘manage’ Trump for the remainder of his term. Reckoning with the fact that the systems of international order that the US helped craft are crumbling as a result” of his controlling personality. “Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,” Davos Switzerland The full text of a speech by the […]
RFK Jr sounds weird. I don’t mean his ideas about vaccines and contagious disease. I mean that when he vocalizes, it sounds . . . creaky. RFK Jr has a condition called “spasmodic dysphonia.” It’s known to have a genetic component. But this is RFK Jr, so of course he blames vaccines. “In an interview […]
– by New Deal democrat Originally housing permits and starts through December were supposed to be updated this morning, but that has now been put off another week. In the meantime, we did get some data, albeit stale, about the important leading sector of construction, in the form of the construction spending report through October. And […]
A rerun of a S.S. commentary by Dale Coberly. “HOW TO PAY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY” was written by Dale Coberly and posted by Dan Crawford on Angry Bear September 9, 2010. Of course, Dan died as well as Bruce Webb, Dale retired from Angry Bear after doing years of excellent commentary, I have not talked […]
Another place I subscribe to is “Kareem Takes on the News.” I can always find an interesting opinion being offered up by the former college and professional basketball player. Who would have thought such? Today or this day (older commentary) Kareem is discussing how “white people were badly treated.” Such mistreatment is being presented and […]
As I have said previously, I met Slotkin in Livingston County, when she first started out. She had her wits together when she talked to us at a cafe in Howell, Michigan. Impressive yes and not to be denied by a person who main tactic is threats. In Arizona, Senator Mark Kelly joined Elisa Slotkin […]
For years, Dale Coberly posted on AB about Social Security, separating myth from reality and reminding readers of the reality. Dale stopped posting here a while ago, so I’ll take up where he left off. I still see folks claiming that Congress “stole” Social Security, that SS is a Ponzi scheme and that SS is […]
“Record low labor share: corporate profits are at their most extreme levels ever compared with nonsupervisory payrolls,” – by New Deal democrat An I’ve read a few takes in the past week or so about the declining “labor share” of GDP. To cut to the chase, here’s a link to that exact graph: In case you are […]
Since the shooting of Renée Good, there has been tension in the air as provoked by Trump and his half – trained agents. That is being done so as to get civilians to react to their presence and their actions which are meant to provoke. This group of agents appears to lack the training necessary […]