In the Oval Office today: "'He made $2.5 million today, and he made $900 million! That’s not bad,' Trump said, pointing to financial investor Charles Schwab and Roger Penske, a...
Yeah, from what I remember, the PPE shortage during the pandemic was quickly addressed by US businesses that were able to pivot to manufacture them - it wasn't in their interests to do so...
Exactly. Trump doesn't want to raise taxes or do anything to upset his businessmen compatriots, so his chosen path is to gut state capacity (with merciless doge cuts), and try to use tariffs...
I don't think I could have expected a more descriptive and perfectly articulated answer on a difficult subject. Thank you for no mumbo jumbo. It would be like trying to explain an orgasm to...
Somewhere on other websites someone is typing the exact opposite of your thoughts, with Biden and the Dems as the worst villains imaginable, and you couldn't convince them otherwise. In a rich...
Is it any wonder that Trump envies Russia and particularly China? Xi snaps his fingers and gets things done without the messy roadblocks of democracy and competing interests of independent...
You know what would actually lower 10-year bond yields? Cutting the federal deficit via some combination of raising taxes, cutting spending, and GDP growth.
Working in electronics manufacturing, I've already been getting e-mails from suppliers of parts and equipment about the tariffs and how it'll impact the pricing and availability of...
I think your last paragraph is correct, but I just find myself, still, unable to pick my jaw up off the floor whenever I hear anyone praise that guy. How could you listen to him for more than a...
Just read the Jamelle Bouie column you referenced. I'm supposed to be reading the penultimate volume of Proust. It is very striking to me that the narrator, Marcel, has a dialectic of...
I think this all goes back to the Supreme Court refusing to take the emoluments clause seriously, also to the fact that Congress never required Trump to create a true blind trust and relinquish his...
I post therefore, I amuse myself. To clear my thoughts and find joy. Ecstasy. A modicum of relief. If I harmlessly annoy someone, so be it. That is an added bonus. When it comes to sharp takes on...
