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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…
My deepest worry is in fact our military. How are they going to respond, and what will they do, when the King orders them to invade Panama, or Greenland, or round up American civilians who Trump doesn't happen to care for?
How ironic that clowns like Hondo and Baseball_Fan accuse the Dems of being "communists". They obviously can't see the real thing when it's their "king".
@msf: I agree with your observations, but it seems to me to be a quibble about labels.
OK: Here in the United States major political and information systems, or at least significant portions of them, were telling the voters that all was OK, but the…
We can quibble about interpretation all that we want to, but it does nothing to change the fact that the government was telling the voters that all was OK, but the voters weren't buying it.
For many months prior to the elections Judy Woodruff of t…
This report in The Guardian validates and reinforces what I stated above:
US aviation sector requests emergency funds after recent alarming crashes
Major aviation groups urge Congress in a joint letter to take action for more air traffic control a…
One final point regarding governmental statistical reporting: such reporting is presumably of value to reflect the real financial environment of the citizens and voters of the United States.
From the recent election results is is evident that those…
@BaluBalu- I have no idea why you are accusing Mark of "abuse".
First of all, he does not "have two threads to discuss the same thing". Mark chose to post his thread in the Off-Topic section, and because I felt that it was of legitimate financial …
"If Republicans were truly concerned about the deficit, why would they pursue extension and expansion of Trump's expiring 2017 tax law? "
Because they are lying SOB's ?
A pox on all of you guys.
The proposition that the government economic statistics (presumed valid as far as what they are measuring) are not accurately reporting useful information as to what is going on in the real world of the real voter seems to…
