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A MODEST PROPOSAL
A modest proposal on preventing the poor people of Central America from becoming a burden to the United States of America It is sad to walk through the urban areas of this great country, and see the streets crowded with illegal immigrants surviving off of the public...
NOT AS STRONG AS YOU THINK YOU ARE
NOT AS STRONG AS YOU THINK YOU ARE Maybe you were in business, and you decided that you could raise your price because your product was market-dominant. Perhaps that strategy backfired; your customers felt alienated and decided to go to another supplier anyway, and...
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, OH MY!!! Well, well, well. Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of NYC. I have heard for 9 months from the Republican faithful about Mr. Trump: “He was elected by the voters; give him a chance; let’s see what he does.” Mr. Trump won the...
PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
Mark Twain: “That's the wonderful thing about science. One gets such a wholesale return of conjecture from a trivial investment of fact”. Here are some facts (things that are demonstrably true, supported by evidence): The US military has built up its presence in the...
US EU DEAL
The United States and the European Union have reached a trade deal that includes a 15% tariff ceiling on most EU goods entering the US, while also eliminating tariffs on certain US goods entering the EU. The EU has also committed to purchasing $750 billion in US...
A THREAT TO CONGRESSIONAL ARTICLE 1 AUTHORITY
In recent days we have seen Mr. Trump cancel funding for major projects authorized by Congressional act and signed into law by the President. We have seen the cancellation of funding for wind power plants, for a rail tunnel between NJ and NY, for approved and...
SOCIAL SECURITY AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
According to the current administration, there are over 20 million illegal immigrants in the US. The median age of this population is 38, and only about 0.5% are over 55 years old. Most estimates of this population peg the rate at closer to 12 million, and those same...
THE US AND TARIFFS COLLECTED
WHAT WILL THE US GOVERNMENT DO WITH THESE COLLECTED TARIFFS? The tariffs paid by the US Import Companies will amount to hundreds of billions of dollars. This is money paid by US companies directly to the US government. Those US companies will either lose money by...
THE TARIFF MATH
What would you do? Assume you own a company that manufactures products overseas. You may even own the factory, have invested millions of dollars in the building and equipment. You make products that customers import to the US for sales to US consumers. You may be...
FIXING EDUCATION
On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM Claude Gerstle wrote: Despite a lot of research, effort and money leading to improved student outcome in secondary schools over the last 20 years, all the gains have occurred in the top half of students with the bottom half and...
INFLATION GAP (PART 4)
NATIONALISM VS GLOBALISM In the previous notes I have attempted to describe how inflation is measured, how companies react to price increases, causing increased inflation, and how the inflation in the US relates to the inflation in the EU and the world in general....