Yesterday Donald Trump and the CEO of the Japanese Softbank company announced a deal to invest $100B in the U.S. You can ignore the question of why investment by Japanese that Mr. Trump likes is good while Japanese investment in US Steel is bad, because a little cognitive dissonance is good for us all. The […]
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I am Tariff Man, and I rule the world!
16 Dec 2024
So American CEOs can just pound sand! The WSJ reports yesterday that CEOs are quietly trying to get into the Trump transition team to try and influence the new administration to not start a trade war, which will harm their businesses and raise prices. But as the headline says, “He isn’t budging.” I’ll have more […]
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Of course, he doesn’t see it that way, but that is the reality nonetheless. Mr. Trump once again came out yesterday against Nippon Steel’s purchase of U.S. Steel. We’ve discussed this a couple of times, here and here, so the basics of the deal haven’t changed–Nippon Steel will invest significant capital ($1.4B) into the new […]
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Mr. Biden’s pardon of Mr. Biden
03 Dec 2024
I’m actually both amused and tremendously surprised at the depth of coverage of Mr. Biden’s pardon of his son this weekend. I’m surprised because everybody had to know it was going to happen. Mr. Biden’s protestations to the contrary, that paragon of virtue was always almost certainly going to pardon his son. No one in […]
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Please read Daniel Ch 8 prior to reading the post, and read post one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight in this series first. Chat GPT Summary: In Daniel 8, Daniel has a vision of a ram with two horns, representing the Medo-Persian Empire, and a goat with a single prominent horn, symbolizing Greece and its first king, Alexander the […]
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Considering Russia’s Nuclear Threat
20 Nov 2024
In Romans 12:18, we are told to be at peace with all men, so far as it depends on you. There is a recognition that we only get to control one person–ourselves, and we don’t do that particularly well. There is a reason why self-control is so encouraged in the Bible, as it’s so little […]
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Harold Macmillan, former Prime Minister of the UK, was once asked what was the most difficult part of leading government, to which he replied, “Events, my dear boy, events.” In some cases events come at you unawares, e.g., Mr. Trump’s failed battle against Covid-19. Others come at least in part due to your own actions. […]
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Please read Daniel Ch 7 prior to reading the post, and read post one, two, three, four, five, six and seven in this series first. Summary: In Daniel 7, Daniel has a prophetic vision of four great beasts rising from the sea, symbolizing successive kingdoms. The first is like a lion with eagle’s wings, the second a bear, the third a leopard with four […]
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There is no joy in Mudville, Mighty Casey has Struck Out: Reflections on the Trumpquake.
07 Nov 2024
Thank you Kamala, for bringing back the joy. Maybe not the joy you were thinking about, but I’ll take it. We’re not going back to normal, perhaps we never will. But we’re leaving the dystopian reality that was the failed Biden/Harris administration, and that is an encouragement. Like you, I’m still processing the election results […]
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Never Harris
03 Nov 2024
The lamentable state of our election once again leaves us with two candidates of poor character–candidates who regularly demagogue their opponents with dishonest characterizations (to put it mildly). We have one candidate who has denied all her prior distinguishing positions when running for president a mere four years ago (without explaining why she abandoned those […]
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