It was only a few weeks ago when I wrote that Trump had long ago already lost his trade war with Chine. The two biggest takeaways I put in there to make my point was that Chinese President Xi...
Look for, the union label   Garment Union ad jingle If there's one thing you know immediately about President Joe Biden, it's that he's a union man to his toes. Come on guys, sing along!, you all know the words, The...
Corporations are people too, my friends.   Mitt Romney Anybody remember that old line from the Mittster? I sure as hell do. It was pundit gold, and along with his imbecilic "47%" comment from a closed fund raiser, sealed Romney's 2012...
August 14 was the worst day of the year for the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 800 points, or 3% and that makes for a net loss of almost 7% in the past three weeks. Additionally,...
With the exceptions of MSNBC and CNN, I don't watch traditional "network" television, but even I'm passingly aware of a television show on CNBC, with a bunch of passably photogenic, moderately coherent venture capitalists giving sad sacks who come...
https://twitter.com/JonFlan/status/1133207369058574338 Rueters MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would supply soy beans and poultry meat to China and that the United States had effectively given up on that market. Putin was speaking at the Russia Calling annual...
The problem with any natural disaster, whether it be wildfire, tornado, hurricane, or global pandemic, is that the immediacy of dealing with the disaster obviously commands all attention. And the longer the disaster persists, the longer attention is focused solely on...
One of the most common misperceptions about the Republican Party is that it really wasn't that bad until crazy far-right voters put Donald Trump into the Oval Office. That is not only a lie, it's a dangerous rewriting of...
In this article, I will explain why  estate taxes and gift taxes should be abolished. I will propose a simpler and fairer tax structure that will still place most of the burden on the “1%”  and, at the same...
In the first two parts of this series, I explored ways to create substantial increases in tax revenues to be paid by America’s wealthiest families. An examination of much-needed tax reform would not, however , be complete without an overhaul...

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead