– by New Deal democrat The late Jeff Miller (“Old Prof” at Seeking Alpha) used to say that you have to leave your ideological priors at the door in order to properly analyze the stock market. The same is true in analyzing incoming economic data. In particular, despite the fact that, unlike T—-p 1.0, T—-p […]

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Foods and food products can still originate in America. However, food supply is also a global industry. Imports do create problems though. The idea the United States can inspect each and every food supplier is unrealistic given they are out of country. In country it was tough enough. I remember at Oscar Mayer, there was […]

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“In offices across the military and in the intelligence community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people and facilities typically stationed in the Middle East if the Trump administration succeeds in ending the Iran conflict, six sources say. “If those cuts happen, it would mark another shift in how the […]

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Since his 2nd presidency reign began, Tr__p has filed with SCOTUS multiple times. But what do the stats show? I was nosey as I know how difficult it is to get to SCOTUS. Maybe I can entice Jack to add to this about the difficulties in getting to SCOTUS with a plea. “More likely than […]

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– by New Deal democrat Several times this year I have ruminated about the US turning into a “banana republic,” in both political and economic terms. As I wrote several months ago,  “About a decade ago economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson wrote “Why Nations Fail,” positing that countries with a strong rule of law and a […]

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A bit of an introduction to the program called the Community Eligibility Provision. The programs costs ~ $20 billion a year (2024) to feed kids in schools. Seventy percent (70%) of the lunches were served free or reduced. As usual there is a political divide on whether all school lunches should be free. This part […]

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“Trump ‘openly embracing’ DESTRUCTION of American Democracy:” Prof. Heather Cox I subscribe to “Letters from an American” and am able to catch much of the Professors words in one of her commentaries. What is good about this? The Professor reveals the damage Tr__p is doing to the United States. Quite openly, the Prof. makes the […]

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The Ukrainians are defending the legal order established after the Second World War. They have performed the entire NATO mission of absorbing and reversing an attack by Russia with a tiny percentage of NATO military budgets and zero losses from NATO members. Ukrainians are making a war in the Pacific much less likely by demonstrating […]

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Much has been made of the fact that being vaccinated does prevent you from catching COVID. Of course, that was never the claim; the claim was that vaccination would keep you out of the ED and the morgue, a claim that enjoys abundant support. Less well appreciated is that vaccination also protects from Long COVID. […]

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J.P. McJefferson writes in a guest post: Elections are irreversible. We must decide legality first. Like the ballroom case, SCOTUS must decide whether to allow the challenged USPS mail-in ballot restrictions to take effect before finally deciding their legality. Trump wants to proceed, but elections are irreversible. Don’t let the challenged action outrun judicial review. […]

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How is it, that we are able to watch this and see exactly what has happened? But view this and not be able to see the same thing happening? Regarding the first photo and the last, if this were our child producing such images repeatedly would we not be taking some kind of action out […]

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AB: This is a great commentary by Robert Reich. First off, I have an issue with the gain of 162,000 jobs being added. I seems to be too much of an increase. I was expecting more like 20 or 30,000. Robert makes an excellent point on deportations. Also: Immigration Drops: Net international migration fell by […]

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I’m no expert on fascism or Ukraine, but based on everything I’ve read so far, the claim the Ukraine is a fascist state is pure Putin propaganda. On the other hand, Prof. Timothy Snyder *is* an expert on fascism and Ukraine. And he is a big supporter of Ukraine in its defense against Russia. Slava […]

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Charles is one of the most knowledgeable people on the internet for healthcare, Medicare, the Advantage plans, Medicaid. etc. If you have a choice between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage, take the former. It is more secure than the later and is accepted anywhere i the United States. You may wish to get a Supplemental […]

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Mike Rogers left Michigan for Florida after retiring from Congress in 201. He later returned to Michigan in 2023. He ran against Elissa Slokin in 2023 and lost. Now he intends to run against Abdul El-Sayed for an open Senate Seat due a retirement. If I was still in Michigan, I would be campaigning against […]

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The Trump plans for USPS handling of mail-in ballots will leave millions of ballots in limbo for weeks or years after the elections. “Election experts are examining the new U.S. Postal Service rules for mailed ballots, and finding that under them, getting ballots in the mail could take weeks — or even years — rendering […]

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– by New Deal democrat As per usual, we start out the month with the ISM manufacturing report (for August) and the construction report (for July). Since these are two of the sectors that lead the economy, they give us a good first look at the remainder of the year. And to cut to the […]

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Next Thursday is the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death. I don’t know that I ever encountered any Charlie Kirk videos. His reputation was so repugnant, I had no more curiosity to see him as I have to read Mein Kampf. “In one 2023 tweet, Kirk managed to simultaneously defend South Africa’s apartheid regime, the […]

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As The Real Economy Blog’s Josepeh Brusuelas and David Carter write, the United States is just a few days off of a national shortage which may or will have an impact on the nation greater than what we are experiencing now. Think about to the sixties when there was a perceived gasoline shortage and people were lining […]

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My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There are some emerging bends in the trends in both the long leading and short leading indicators. The longer term indicators – and here I am talking primarily about bonds – are signaling that higher interest rates are necessitated by both the fiscal and demand components of […]

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