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US expat living in SE Asia, retired CPA....world news / politics / finance / economics....but food, cooking, wine, books & adventures mostly! Live & let live! #classical music #jazz #history #Thailand #Singapore

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2025-05-10 23:37:34

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@nprofile…f0x4 ….so, sure they have video….?

2025-05-08 02:43:22

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@nprofile…7c02 ....excellent take....Carney made a small fool seem smaller...and more foolish....

2025-04-09 22:10:54

The President is a fool...praising him for undoing a pointless, globally harmful, ill thought out action is stupid....these people can't manage anything.....good quote from National review (picked from a Cox-Richardson post)...below....
Bill Ackman praises Trump's tariff pause: 'Thank you on behalf of all Americans' https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/bill-ackman-praises-trumps-tariff-pause-thank-you-on-behalf-of-all-americans.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.thomasricouard.IceCubesApp.IceCubesShareExtension

2025-03-30 22:06:01

"Europe’s devotion to the United States has left the continent, in a word, pathetic. It now has an opportunity to rebuild its strategic thinking and capabilities, and to learn again how to protect its own freedom and liberties. As Trump flirts dangerously with authoritarianism, Europe needs to save itself. If it can, Europe might also someday play a role in saving the United States."
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-update-126-what-putin-probably?

2025-03-26 22:17:26

The Nazi is a problem in every regards....
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy

2025-03-26 00:50:37

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@nprofile…7c02 hahahaha....confirming the universally known lie from trumpo about Canada's drugs across the border...fantasy.....

2025-03-17 03:08:01

MAGA-Inflation coming right up!
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inflation?open=false

2025-03-11 04:21:51

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@nprofile…vdm6 .....everybody together now..."have you no decency, sir?"

2025-03-11 02:14:44

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@nprofile…dtk0 ...yes....decades and decades of unfathomable bloodshed and sacrifice to build up that trust, that stature as the leader of the free world, of democratic government....all thrown out the window in 50 days....by a low intelligence, criminal, Russian tool. The tragedy for America and the world has no bounds.....

2025-03-10 22:04:27

Clear message to MAGA-trumpy economic policies - They are gibberish, they are nonsense, they will crater economies, markets, people's savings and wealth. Trumpo is intellectually incapable of understanding what the impacts, implications are of what he is doing...in every aspect of governing, but none so cataclysmic as the economic policies. Time for him to go!
Goldman Sachs slashes 2025 GDP forecast on negative tariff impact https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/goldman-sachs-slashes-2025-gdp-forecast-on-negative-tariff-impact.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.thomasricouard.IceCubesApp.IceCubesShareExtension

2025-03-01 23:06:29

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5220x56pqt?post=asset%3Aade152a6-2587-474d-a9bc-3feb8f75f312#post

2025-02-24 23:07:52

Paul Krugman - "In the case of DOGE, ....clear that Musk is failing more or less comprehensively at his supposed task of saving money by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. But he doesn’t want the public — or ...Donald Trump — to figure that out until he’s achieved his real objectives,....taking effective control of large parts of the federal gov't — esp. those parts of the federal government trying to regulate his enterprises and those of his tech-bro buddies."
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-is-the-theranos-of-cost-cutting?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=157757291&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1qb13l&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

2025-02-12 22:59:25

MAGA-nomics? Yep....and more to come!
Consumer prices rise 0.5% in January, higher than expected as annual rate rises to 3% https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/cpi-january-2025.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.thomasricouard.IceCubesApp.IceCubesShareExtension

2025-01-17 22:59:50

MAGA Economic Voodoo....lowering taxes on the rich & imposing tariffs that will affect mostly working & middle class families...will not lead to higher growth, only to more income inequality and inflation. See P. Krugman's newsletter👇....and a quick look at this trickle down nonsense from history
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/voodoo-maga-style?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=154984693&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1qb13l&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/846/172/283/795/653/original/a5d10da91f9fd9e5.jpeg

2025-01-13 02:27:17

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@nprofile…7c02 ...yes....too many confused "entertainment" with "governing". So, through ignorance, laziness, stupidity, America gets a thorough "revamp" into something majority really do not want. But, MAGA buyers remorse / stupid Dem voters staying home remorse is just, well, tough. Like the UK's moronic Brexit vote, this catastrophe of 2024 US election can't be undone. Dems lead the electorate to water, but they couldn't make them drink. So, the Devil's circus is here to stay...

2025-01-12 03:04:39

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@nprofile…xrpg @nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…qz4x ....and can be modified to reflect a past tense verb, as in "she really liztrussed the absolute sh*t out of the economy"

2024-12-28 23:07:34

That this MAGA dysfunction is showing cannot surprise anyone....contemptible fools the lot of them...and the Dems who sat out the election.....
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-27-2024?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20533&post_id=153706185&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMDQ2NTA4MzMsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE1MzcwNjE4NSwiaWF0IjoxNzM1MzY0MjU2LCJleHAiOjE3Mzc5NTYyNTYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yMDUzMyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.WSJ1bQq1kjTuTVmNjB-S2o4PnMPj55RZ3dbrWmuEy0k&r=1qb13l&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

2024-12-19 23:44:24

"Data....showed the U.S. economy growing faster than expected in 3rd quarter, while jobless claims also fell more than anticipated.
“With these GDP prints and jobless claims, .....the data is fairly firm,” said Bart Melek, head of commodity strategies at TD Securities, adding that a solid economy and inflationary risks, including tariffs and spending cuts, reaffirm the Fed has little reason to be aggressive, which historically has not been good for non-yielding gold."
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/19/gold-recovers-from-one-month-low-on-short-covering.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.thomasricouard.IceCubesApp.IceCubesShareExtension

2024-12-16 00:24:39

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@nprofile…taps ...top of the list....anybody really other than that moron trump....the NATO Gen Sec also comes to mind....Mr. Tusk of Poland, etc etc.....shameful submission by Time Mag....

2024-12-11 10:19:14

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@nprofile…taps ...& astonishingly, 75 million of this person's fellow citizens just voted into office a party, lead by a moron, that thinks this, along with a host of other lunacies, is a great system....& wants to get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, & Affordable Care Act, just for kicks. & that 75 million were abetted by the stupidest Americans who stayed home - Dems & Indts....who failed epically to see the danger, the ignorance, of their choice. absolutely unforgivable betrayal....

2024-12-10 22:56:32

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@nprofile…6yg2 doesn't KY have a Dem governor?

2024-12-06 23:09:59

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@nprofile…f0x4 ...and we know how that last Gilded Age ended. Here, again, a Dem administration will hand a Republican-Fascist gov't a healthy, growing, inflation/unemployment in the "wow" zone economy....which, with certainty, will be utterly gutted by a series of - quite publicly proclaimed - policies, aspirations implemented by fools, felons and incompetents. Eyes wide shut, as it were....but this new gov't won't really care...they don't intend to allow a vote to throw them out.....

2024-12-02 03:00:30

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@nprofile…r5mx @nprofile…mk2v ...bright spots will be gone after Jan 20....I feel the same about the future for America.....

2024-11-30 23:02:42

Timothy Snyder- don't miss reading this one!
".....constellations of states that would be wealthier and more functional than the current US. A west coast union would certainly be richer, and would have its own borders with Canada and Mexico.
.....a west coast union plus Canada plus the New England, New York......would have an economy about 2/3 the size of what was left of the US, with a far higher GDP per capita, a better standard of living and longer life spans...."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumpomuskovia?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=310897&post_id=152297335&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1qb13l&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

2024-11-29 10:37:59

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@nprofile…r5mx everybody really should read this....Paul's right, the trumpo corruption will go everywhere, including the bureaus and agencies, process that provide, until now, untarnished by political tomfoolery, our closely watched financial data....one of many things that will go to the bin in the coming years....

2024-11-12 23:09:36

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 that is half the issue...the other half is the extreme ignorance, low education, intellectual laziness of huge swaths of the electorate....can't have one without the other.

2024-10-15 11:20:09

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@npub1jrl…krkx ....his brains are mush....

2024-09-08 20:20:34

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@npub1dts…6798 😂🤣

2024-09-06 22:14:31

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 ....I would assume they are all bought....they all want, for the want of money and two minutes of fame, to make USA a Russian satellite....truly & despicably unpatriotic.

2024-08-02 11:06:10

Trumpo & The MAGATs are just so out,of touch with America, and Americans....grasping and gasping as they go down....the majority is decidedly not with the christo-fascist fools...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/us/trump-harris-black-asian-race.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

2024-08-02 11:06:10

2024-07-16 21:59:32

....if his goons don't catch and kill you, his medical theories most certainly will👇
Trump endorses vaccine conspiracy theory in leaked call with RFK Jr. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/16/trump-vaccines-rfk-jr.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.thomasricouard.IceCubesApp.IceCubesShareExtension

2024-07-11 02:20:53

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@npub1k4q…4nh2 this feels right

2024-07-03 03:52:11

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 conspiracy to destroy America.....

2024-06-28 12:07:48

"....and by far the most striking thing about the debate was the overwhelming focus among pundits immediately afterward about Biden’s appearance and soft, hoarse voice as he rattled off statistics and events. Virtually unmentioned was the fact that Trump lied and rambled incoherently, ignored questions to say whatever he wanted; refused to acknowledge the events of January 6, 2021; and refused to commit to accepting the result of the 2024 presidential election,....."
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-27-2024?r=1qb13l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2024-06-28 09:57:40

Tell them to rerun the last Biden SOTU address....that's the real Biden. This loony-tunes debate was not.
Top Democratic fundraisers sound the alarm after Biden's debate performance https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/28/biden-democratic-fundraisers-sound-alarm-on-debate.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.thomasricouard.IceCubesApp.IceCubesShareExtension

2024-06-15 01:43:44

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@npub10sy…cdrt yes, I do not know them...but they were wise to fight off the invaders. Tragic the first Americans were unable to do the same here....

2024-06-15 01:35:43

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@npub10sy…cdrt ...and I am sure your mother's tribe was the better for their successful resistance!! I will remember that definition of conquistador!! Brilliant!

2024-06-15 00:44:12

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@npub10sy…cdrt ...do NOT let in the Catholics!!!! No where, at no time, ever, has anyone ever proclaimed "thank heaven for the Catholics"!!!

2024-06-14 22:56:04

CEOs at Trump meeting say he was ‘meandering,’ ‘doesn't know what he's talking about’ https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/14/ceos-at-trump-meeting-not-impressed.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.thomasricouard.IceCubesApp.IceCubesShareExtension

2024-06-04 09:53:17

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@npub1xj8…egqe ...please tell me that's not correct.....

2024-05-22 13:33:32

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 ...when someone shows you who they are, ............

2024-05-21 00:02:15

This really is a great read....(gift article)....
Many Republicans continue their collective amnesia about Trump. https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/the-maga-memory-hole/678435/?gift=EfmuPREyAz0RzFLYHgch7-n2_lkxOJHJTAYm00Z3Iq4

2024-05-06 11:28:10

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 ....this, as usual, is a excellent article....

2024-04-23 08:16:02

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@npub15zu…s7lx ...send them everything they want, and the stuff they need but don't know about.....why hold back anything?

2024-04-22 13:47:00

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 ...and the not so hidden message being "we do not want your kind here".....

2024-04-10 13:45:51

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 .....they'd be the lost ladies of Bucks county....no sure they're a good barometer of the anti-science goof candidate's appeal....

2024-04-09 14:48:29

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 ...scream it from the rooftops daily.....

2024-03-12 07:59:45

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 ….when people show you who they really are, believe them….as that old saying goes.

2024-03-07 14:40:24

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 such a backward place....

2024-02-10 01:38:28

It's idiocy. The simpler, widely supported solution is to increase taxes, eliminate glaring loopholes, on corporations and the extremely wealthy. Quit poking those that aren't in those categories!
Economists call for limiting retirement plan tax preferences to fix Social Security https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/09/limiting-retirement-plan-tax-perks-may-help-social-security-experts-say.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.thomasricouard.IceCubesApp.IceCubesShareExtension

2024-02-02 08:50:05

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@npub15zu…s7lx ...new reference point for trumpo sentencing on espionage...?

2024-01-21 23:58:36

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@npub1mmf…eknq 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.....and yes....over to you America.

2024-01-21 13:31:00

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@npub1qe5…8ugl So the Atlantic published a whole issue on all of the various catastrophes that will befall America if trump gets elected….and now this from the Heritage Foundation….how do these not scare the living shite out of Americans? Even the deepest enthralled dipshit trumpo cult followers must be starting to wonder what they’ve signed onto…

2024-01-14 00:48:15

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@npub1kmn…8cg8 ....a perpetual national security hemorrhage.....

2023-11-10 14:53:45

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 ....bag'a rocks, this one....

2023-11-08 14:29:23

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 agree.....and there is a more subtle effect ofJoe Biden and his admin....they have, since day one, been unwaveringly focused on delivering for the American people. They talk the walk, and walk the talk. No whiny grievances, just legislation, exec-orders, statements on policy intent, etc. all aimed at things the majority of Americans want, need. No talk of revenge....no talk of weaponizing the DOJ, etc. Working, undistracted, for America. That's a supreme characteristic.

2023-10-30 01:02:06

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@npub1r6x…nu0x @npub17xm…r7zs @npub1p90…5svf @npub1t07…nm3q @npub1j7t…ls96 @npub1ccn…czwu ....this, btw, is an excellent summary you've posted....and just part of the great story the Biden administration....

2023-10-29 21:54:24

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@npub1r6x…nu0x @npub1j7t…ls96 @npub1drc…s7v5 @npub1t07…nm3q @npub1dpj…wgj3 @npub1ccn…czwu Agree....clear (hopefully to most?) 2024 elections are binary choice....voting for Democrats will preserve our representative (i.e. your vote counts) gov (& if strong Dem wins real action on abortion/lgbtq/etc rights, gun control, climate, etc), vs voting GOP who will end free/fair elections. Period. then slide into hell will be unstoppable.

2023-10-10 00:12:40

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@npub1xpc…3t05 ….great minds, as they say. But the theme is on point, depressing as one thinks back to how relatively recent, historically, the cataclysm of WWII is…..we’ve learned much and nothing.

2023-10-09 18:46:03

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@npub1xpc…3t05 just read an excellent Anne Applebaum piece in the Atlantic on very much this point…

2023-10-05 10:02:52

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@npub15zu…s7lx ...good if unsettling read.....everyday there is a new thing - technology, work place issue, job security, etc - that makes me ever so glad to be retired.

2023-09-17 10:04:40

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@npub1vkc…0wyj ...me thinks the witch knows not what she's talking about....

2023-08-06 02:11:19

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@npub1dq0…glnl ...WOW! Bingo!

2023-05-05 11:46:02

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@npub1t95…0kzy @npub189n…satx ....I just did, at your suggestion....though I have seen many, many boosted toots from this obvious sage....thanks for pushing, gently, the follow...!

2023-05-04 22:09:34

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@npub179g…c9ls @npub1t95…0kzy @npub1uwt…p8lz ...if I may, a very good source for behind the scenes and all-around analysis is @TeriKanefield.

2023-04-27 03:17:18

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#[0] ....history will say Biden was one of America's most consequential POTUS.....having inherited a complete wreck of a country from a malevolent & criminal GOP POTUS (this, btw, is a feature of GOP POTUS's), passed landmark legislation on infrastructure, health care, trade, industry, +++....restored our internat'l standing....defended often & publicly democracy & called out the diseased MAGA cult. In half a term. Who wouldn't want two terms of this??! imho...