Yet another clever way to own them Libs! And if someone's child dies, the family gets a GoFundMe page with $45 pledged...

This plague has reached central Okiehomie. My better half is getting her MMR booster today. I'm looking for one also. I hope not too many children get it--I volunteer in a local school...

OK then. Start at NYU. Look for that tall autistic geek who shows up some mornings, wanders around then goes home for lunch to his mom's house. He is some sort of unwelcome...

Someone needs to ask the foreign-born, unelected, deep state ketamine addict why his companies starve their accounts receivable departments of employees and resources to do their jobs. He will scoff at the question and say that would not happen. And so the trap opens...

The sovereign wealth funds of a bunch of the Gulf States will gladly kick in the dough to get this done, to (1) spite Trump, and (2) to keep those Jews off their land...

A friend had some chickens on her farm. They gave beautiful, odd-shaped eggs. Then, one night, some coyotes visited...

As a commercial real estate professional, I'm calling BS on this one.

The list is anything from parking lots to federal courthouses nationwide. So, the federal courts in many major cities (and here in OKC) are going to close? Doubtful. And so who will negotiate the sales, and the leases for occupancy of, say, the FBI, DOJ, the odd federal or bankruptcy judge, or in Norman, OK., the NOAA installation that runs national weather radar? DOGE Muskrats named Scooter, BJ or Ganesh will be taken to the cleaners. The 'wall of receipts' will soon show that those taking title to many of these buildings will be paid to do so, given the environmental issues, age and current condition and special-use characteristics of many buildings. (The parking lots and decks will be snapped up first, and buyers of those properties will soon be ginning money.)

This is the sort of move that distressed companies take. It's called a 'sale-leaseback', and is often a sign if distress on the part of the seller. In this case, the seller hopes to raise about $4T to offset the coming tax cuts that will be rammed through in a few months, and then tank the economy shortly thereafter. For someone who claims to be a real estate expert, El Rey Dotardo II is greatly over-hyping this idea. It will be talked about for a while, and then will die a quiet death...

Sadly, every one of the MAGA pols is hoping that El Rey Dotardo II cancels all future elections. Dem pols should have these events every weekend--include a bake sale, Lenten fish fry, and samples of local craft beer. Get the crowds out, get them angry, and form them into a community and voting bloc. Reinforce the problem of not being educated on the issues, and getting all hyped to vote in EVERY election, from dog catcher to president. Voters should target every pol with an "R" after their name or a stupid red hat in the back of their closet...

This cynic has long discounted Social Security being available for me in retirement. My spouse and I have saved a long, long time for that day when we would leave the world of work. We will survive, but millions of our fellow citizens will not, not even for a short amount of time. I'll wager that the most frightening thing any MAGA politician could ever imagine is a large crowd of senior citizens rolling down the street in their wheel chairs, protesting the present situation. All those MAGAts will realize that they are out of jobs...

The stock market is not the economy. Neither is the bond market, but the bond market has better predictive power than the stock market. Here on earth, the S&P 500 is down approx 0.50% YTD, while the Bros are taking it, with TSLA down more than 30% since Inauguration Day, and Bitcoin down more than 20%--both a terrific pounding in a six week period.

More concerning is that the US Treasury yield curve is again inverted, from the three-month T-bill to the 15-yr bond. While the YC is not entirely accurate in predicting a recession, it is a precursor for such, and that the curve inverted so quickly in the past month suggests that many investor are concerned about the US Economy, in a way they were not shortly after the inauguration. What investors and businesses detest the most is uncertainty, and there is a truck load of uncertainty in the economy and the capital markets right now. What could be the result? Less business investment, less hiring, less business travel, less international trade, less purchasing by the US consumer. Take those factors, add in tariffs, and one gets stagflation. For those of us alive in the 1970's, we know it was bad. Very bad. And the busload of clowns now serving in the court of El Rey Dotardo II have no capability to turn their bus around. Hang on, readers...

I'll wager a dime to a dollar that Miss Lindsey and Uncle Tom get recovery dough far before folks in California see any financial support from the King...

Pete was convicted of tax evasion, for not reporting his winnings from betting no horses (and betting on baseball too, I guess). He did time in Leavenworth. Were he alive, he would not have been impressed with El Rey Dotardo II in the least. Pete liked people who worked hard, and made something of themselves. He would have called Donald "Don", and would have irritated Trump from the get-go. Pete was no phony--he was uncouth, from a poor part of Cincinnati, and made something of himself through constant effort...

Meanwhile in DC, Bob's chief spokseman at HHS resigned last Friday, effective immediately. I'm sure it was to spend more time with his family. Not...

Vivek has been touting chip plants in Ohio as a way into the 21st century in the Buckeye State. I guess that campaign point has gone by the wayside. Thanks, El Rey Dotardo II for helping sink this creep's candidacy for Ohio governor...

We will determine whether this is nothing, or something. As of now, we believe it is something...
--The Bond Market, the most powerful force in the world

Wait. TASS has someone in the Oval Office, but the Associated Press does not? How many believe that the TASS person simply walked in off the street, and was admitted? Either Leon's cutting has reached the Secret Service, or more than a few people at 1600 knew who the visitor was, and who invited them...

Remember how each and every MAGA fanatic functionary touted DOGE, and wanted to join the bandwagon. Voters will be remined loud and long about how these folks wanted to starve children, see epidemics rage unabated, stand aside at the theft of private information from hundreds of millions of Americans, and applaud job losses throughout the federal government...

For some strange reason, I think that all of these MAGA functionaries will get their names on ballots for any election to be held in the future. Then they will regret not having town hall events, not listening to their constituents and not growing backbones...

My perspective is that Z is much smarter than nearly everyone gives him credit. I think he will do OK handling a mentally ill narcissist who cannot recognize the mistakes he makes and his poor negotiation skills...

Recessions are typically lead by consumer confidence and spending. Recent signs are negative in these measures. There is a tremendous amount of headline noise regarding layoffs, some of which are the normal course of business and some (as we are seeing with the attempted termination of federal employees) is not. Capital markets are going bearish, and calling for less growth--the S&P 500 is now negative for the year, and Treasury yields (i.e., the 10-yr UST) have fallen 30bp in the past month, with no input from governmental or Fed actions. Consumer inflation is up, and will remain up for some time. For the Tech Bros and under-30 crowd, there is plenty of pain--Bitcoin is down 23-25% so far this year, and Tesla stock is down 35% from Inauguration Day, so the youngsters (and Leon) are getting a good cracking.

My concern is that the present administration has taken its eye completely off the economy and economic signals and the inputs to economic performance. They will not re-focus on such matters until it is too late. I'll bet on a recession in the US by 4Q2025. Clip and save...

The moron at the head of our government thinks he is about to corner the world supply of Kryptonite. Let's let him think that...

The Nones still have a way to go to catch those classified as Phony Christians. They are the ones who know who Jesus would shoot first, they know the names of those two Corinthian guys, they can justify not feeding the hungry and think it fun to post photos of unhoused people sleeping in the park. The Phonies know the lyrics to almost every song they sing at their Sunday service (often confused for a concert by a local oldies cover band) and they donate $50 each year to the local United Way...

I'm still waiting on ICE, DEA, Border Patrol, Rat Patrol and those guys from 'Saving Pvt. Ryan' to show their faces here in Okiehomie, to run out all the illegals working hard on grounds crews, roofing crews, laying brick, painting anything that stands still, and bussing/washing dishes. I cannot wait for the locals to be out there in the July heat cutting their own grass, seeing their sons and daughters clearing tables down at the local Denny's, and waiting for a couple of years for that roof replacement needed two years ago. Yep--never gonna happen. Deportation raids are for Blue States only...

The article's all rubbish, mate. Looka me! 81 and still kicking, and my life has been the opposite of this advice. And a whole lot more fun...
--Keith Richards

Interesting analysis today in WSJ regarding the existing 2017 tax cut program:
-rick folks received tax cuts which amounted to a greater percentage of their income than did the less well off, and the bottom rung of taxpayers got nearly no tax break
-there are no signs that the tax cuts generated any new jobs
-the small amount of additional income most Americans saw was greatly offset by the additional debt brought on by the tax cuts
-the tax cuts did NOT pay for themselves
-extending the tax cuts will cost trillions over the next ten years
-in the end, the 2017 tax cuts were simply tax cuts for rich folks--nothing more or less

Tune in over the coming months when Americans will be treated to the same lies, e.g., all Americans will benefit greatly, the cuts will pay for themselves, they are needed for economic growth in the US, blah, blah, blah...