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Wonk, Wonk, Spin, Spin I am not an economist, but I have dealt with formulas in my scientific career.Mr. Trump announced “reciprocal” tariffs yesterday. On the surface, the chart he produced showed terrible inequalities of tariffs.But…This is Snake Oil, and it is...
Some people have viewed my previous political posts as being negative; that they show my hate for Mr. Trump. This is not true. I have never met him, and my concerns are about what I see are the underlying principles of his policies. My attempts to understand our...
PATTERNS – Business practices I would like to continue my discussion of how past is prologue by observing how he seemed to view his businesses. The underlying theme of Mr. Trump and his development of the Trump Organization seems to a continued focus on defining and...
Maybe I am wrong. Maybe this is all pointless conjecture. I am only working from what I see and hear from the White House and the Administration officials. And if I am wrong, then I apologize for this unwarranted warning. Time will tell. Mr. Trump is biding his time...
First, a note: I would like to clarify the intent of my recent essays. As most of you know, I was trained as a lab scientist. When I chose to leave research, I visited my thesis advisor and asked him if I was abandoning my career by leaving science. He wisely...
The past is prologue. What a person does in his private life is usually reflected in what he does in his business life and his public life. I have written before about how Mr. Trump’s distain for giving money to Hospitals, Universities, Cultural Institutions,...
(this post was inspired by my wife, Amie, who is often much smarter than me.) In 1994, Russia, the US, Ukraine and the UK signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances. France and China signed identical agreements in separate documents. Identical agreements...
The Anatomy of a Trump Lie All Trump lies begin with a kernel of truth; but when fully formed have mutated into something unrecognizable. Take this quote from the Speech on Tuesday Night: “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others, but...
This week, Mr. Trump, by personal executive decree withdrew the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). He also suspended, indefinitely, all scientific health agency meetings, training sessions, travel and grant panels. This applies to the Centers for Disease...
And so, the Wildfire has begun. Here is a short list of the executive actions in the first hours after inauguration: Freeing criminals convicted by Juries, and validated by all available appeals, who beat Police and sent them to the hospital, defecated in the...
Can we please put the Republican and Democratic claims in perspective? They both misstate and overstate the data on the economy. Here is the data; you make your own conclusions: How has the economy performed between Obama and Trump? Has the economy boomed after the...
How to understand what Mr. Trump wanted from Ukraine regarding the 2016 election. I imagine that most of those of you who follow my rants already understand this, but it has been eating at me lately and I thought I would just bring us all up to date regarding this....