Category: economics and politics
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The Guardian: How Effective is Protesting?
From the Guardian (UK) the Party Organ of the left in the United Kingdom. Interesting. And you should be able to access it through the link – just ignore the request that pops up. Worth reading the whole thing. According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, from…
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NYT: “U.S. Economic Growth Surged in Third Quarter of 2025”
It seems that my skepticism about tariffs was misplaced. The U.S. economy grew at a vigorous pace through the end of September, despite the uncertainty created by tariffs and widespread concerns about affordability among households. Economic growth rose at a 4.3 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday, an acceleration…
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Former Senator Sasse announces terminal cancer.
Ben Sasse, who I liked … a lot. Very solid, principled man who tangled with Trump. He is 53 and has stage 4 pancreatic cancer Ben Sasse, a Republican former senator from Nebraska and a former president of the University of Florida, announced on Tuesday that he had received a diagnosis of terminal Stage 4…
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WSJ: New class of “battleship” to be named after you know who.
Hahaha. Trump manages to top this posting from yesterday – “7 Other Things Trump Is Naming After Himself “ The new vessels, which the president calls battleships, will be latest in what the White House envisions as a ‘Golden Fleet’ “We’re desperately in need of ships,” Trump said. “Some of them have gotten old and…
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CBS: WH economic Advisor Hassett – 2K tariff checks “depend on Congress”
Kevin Hassett (who I like) interviewed on CBS. Trump bamboozles the Democrats again – like with no taxes on tips who is going to vote against a reimbursement or rebate to non- high income earners with money from the tariffs? And according to Hassett (see below) the budget deficit is dropping. Director of the National…
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NYT: “Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich”
Even though I can’t stand all the coverage of Jeffrey Epstein – he’s dead, who cares – of course it’s politically motivated to find dirt on Trump – this article on his early years is amazing. A huge amount of digging went into it by the Times reporters. It is a long feature to read…
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NYT: Why Both Republicans and Democrats Are Wrong About Health Care
If you want top quality healthcare – you can’t get it without someone paying – a lot. The cost goes up every year as more and more procedures and meds are developed. And professional staff is expensive – I have a young ICU nurse client in a major Westchester hospital. Not counting benefits her salary…
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WSJ: Climate Study Retraction…
Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years there have been many periodic climate crises – some of them literally threatening the destruction of humanity – but none of them due to human activity. We know that there was a climate change so rapid and dramatic about 62,000 years ago, that nothing grandparents could teach…
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WSJ: “Now Obama says he’s giving back”
The sort of thing Trump would do…? This is almost funny. The former president finds a new way to honor himself. Nobody runs for president without a robust ego, and winning two elections for the nation’s highest office is unlikely to lower anyone’s self-regard. Still, it takes a special kind of nerve to bulldoze local…
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Meet the Waltons – Walmart founder Sam Walton legacy
These videos are triggered by the fact that the current CEO of Walmart (who started stocking shelves in 1983) is retiring after a successful 11 year run. Walmart takes care of their employees and they are very loyal. That’s the first video – 7 minutes long. The second is how the Founder Sam Walton’s three…