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We hoped to stop the frightening inflation. We succeeded. Then we were asked to return prices to the way they used to be. That’s a taller order, but surprisingly, in some ways, we are making headway in that direction.
Modern war has acquired an odd new feature. It now comes with graphics, dramatic music, and a nightly highlight reel. Precision bombs streak across the screen. Drones glide in cinematic slow motion. Social media fills with grainy infrared footage of things exploding in the desert while commentators nod gravely and say phrases like “escalation dynamics” and “rules-based order.”
American businesses are managing the changing tariff landscape by attempting re-shoring projects, but in their hurry, are they remembering to fully manage the other issues raised by re-shoring?
“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.” ~ Adolf Hitler
This was not a good weekend for those in Canada who suffer TDS. They made Sunday’s hockey match with Team USA all about politics and Canadian pride. The trash-talking turned to trash-eating.
The reciprocal and fentanyl tariffs have been overturned, and the Trump administration is responding. How should the individual business respond to this latest disruption?
The news stories at the end of the calendar year are different from the news stories the rest of the year. From mid-December through mid-January, there’s a different kind of article that fills the newspapers and floods our websites: the year-end summary.
President Trump: “Under these cuts, many families will be saving between $11,000 and $12,000 a year, and next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season of all time, because of tariffs, along with the just passed one big, beautiful bill.”
The Democrat-media complex has glommed onto a new narrative that joins the ranks of past cliches that they’ve tried to exploit for political purposes. Their new political narrative is “affordability.”
Many in the press have enjoyed taking pot shots at President Donald Trump for his recent recommendation that the banking community make 50 year mortgages available to prospective homeowners.
The long federal shutdown was broken without Republican compromise. Longtime Washington watchers, accustomed to Republicans caving early from fear that the Democrats would win the PR game, were pleasantly surprised to see that the GOP didn’t give in on anything serious this time.
Zohran Mamdani, the illegal alien soon to assume the mayoralty of New York City, shocked many with his declaration that “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no problem too small for government to care about.”
It seems that the electric vehicle mandates of the Biden Administration were not greeted with approval by the public, and the public are not choosing to buy the silly things without Federal government bribery. From The Wall Street Journal: Ford Considers Scrapping Electric Version of F-150 Truck Once hyped as a ‘smartphone that can tow,’ …
And as the government consumes more and more of our money? It ain’t the Elites that are crowded out of the pool. It is you and me.
So, while this isn’t the biggest immediate issue to resolve, it is indeed the biggest longterm issue: what can be done to reduce the harm of future shutdowns?
China declared new export controls on rare earths, which by some accounts are so extreme as to not only ban exports of the goods from China, but also to ban the manufacture or export of related goods from any other country.
The Fiscal Year (2026) Begins With The Shocking (It’s Shocking I tell You) Ecoutez Et Repetez Of The Perennial Washington DC Political Follies The players may change from time to time, but the game remains the same no matter who gets in office. This faux outrage and gamesmanship has been going on since you know …
The GDP fell by 0.5% in the first quarter which featured the last 20 days of Biden auto penning government policy and pardons. But we learned on Wednesday that the GDP rose 3% in the second quarter, the first full quarter with our favorite president back. The growth pushed Americans into the world’s first $30 trillion economy.
Did we hit Iran hard enough before we stopped? This is always the question, anytime you engage in diplomacy, warfare, or a combination of the two. When it becomes necessary to do something, the question is “How much?”
The Trump Administration has extended the international tariff negotiation deadline by another three weeks – giving countries until August 1 instead of July 9 to come to a deal.