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Well, this pretty well summarizes that Tax Foundation report:
Academic and governmental studies find the Trump-Biden tariffs have raised prices and reduced output and employment, producing a net negative impact on the US economy.
@hank- perhaps you overlooked the report's references to the economy??
With respect to Trump, please note that he is mentioned only once, and that was to point out that NOAA staffing levels were low well before he took office. I deliberately edited…
"Could a watchdog government agency similar to the CFPB be helpful with banks behaving badly?"
No worries... Musk will use his own mega-fortune to rescue Trump's gummint if the whole thing crashes (again).
Sure thing. (Please forget that you heard…
Following are excerpts from a current report in The San Francisco Chronicle:
Elon Musk’s DOGE layoffs hit California National Weather Service employees
Large federal workforce firings began at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on …
For many years there was an auto parts store in SF that had a large sign advertising polish and brakes (who knows?). For a long time I had my wife believing that it was the only place in SF that sold Polish brakes. I told her that …
What's the difference between constructing your own "Fund of Funds" and being told by some MFOers that having too many funds is inefficient, wasteful, and self-defeating, as we've all heard here so many times over the years?
As usual, your comment has absolutely no connection or response to the presentation of factual information.
Your president king is self-hindered from making anything great unless he has permission from Charles Koch and Moscow. Quite a combination.
And a bit more on the Medicaid situation, from a current report in The New York Times:
Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act’…
Catholic school certainly didn't teach anyone to think critically... they did their best to teach me to be a sheep. Fortunately, they failed.
The Jesuits (whom I never encountered) might just be an exception.
@hondo: You have evidently failed to notice that it's your president who is kissing the ass of the communist president. Could you please name a few of the Democrats who are doing the same thing?
All of this is somewhat similar to Schwab's posting of the market value of our Treasury and CD fixed income. It takes a fair amount of time before everything is brought up to speed. Even the internal Schwab accounting goes through different stages o…
