One interesting measure of the economy and crony capitalism at once: As of April 21 2025 TSLA stick is down approximately $224 per share or 47.6%, 2025 year-to-date. Tomorrow Leon Skum's company gets to announce their most recent quarterly earnings, and sales volume. I'll wager that the brand damage brought on by DOGE and the Muskrats will cause the TSLA board to...um...oh, provide some platitudes about the auto business and technology and how the future is looking up, and the sky is blue, and the company is geared for growth. Not a word will be uttered about the autistic guy at the company helm, who is giggling while steering the ship toward the rocks...

"But we didn't vote for this" is now the modern equivalent of "But I was only following orders". Both are lies, and sooner or later the liars will be punished, one way or another...

Cubans in South Florida have been a destabilizing force for decades. A whole bunch of Central American thuglife types also showed up in Dade and Broward Counties, scheming to retake their countries, after being run out by Leftists. All those Cubans in Florida have among them a large number that hate Castro and his aftermath, but they have little interest in democracy, socialized medicine or the old ways still displayed on the island. They want their old grifting ways back. Send them all home--they can reinvigorate their home country again...

Wait: my wife and I caught hell over a wool coat, and this guy runs scams on his scams!
--Richard Nixon, still dead

You want chaos in the markets, MAGAts? Encourage your fat orange insurrectionist and golf cheat of a leader to try to fire Jay Powell. If successful, the most powerful force on the planet--the bond market--will tip over the US economy, faster than Jesus did with the moneychangers' tables in the Temple...

Our Canadian neighbors rescued the housing market in Southwest Florida in 2009-10 when they learned that upon opening a checking account in a local bank, they gave you a condo. Canadians from the eastern half of the country rolled down I-75 with bags of cash in their Tahoes and Toyotas, and kicked off a recovery no one saw coming. For that alone every Canadian should be warmly welcomed in Florida. Instead, Canadians are getting out and staying away.

My ask: when those Canadian folks find somewhere else in the sun, not stunk up by the MAGA horde, please tell me...

Sympathy is dead, as demonstrated here.

Can't pay? OK then, put him on a road crew, picking up trash along Highway 3. His ankle bracelet will be programed to give him a shock if not enough movement, and will explode if Cracker Mike tries to run...

Paid? Paid?!? I doubt this dork ever knew about appearance fees. He saw his blathering on Trump's most watched cable channel as padding for his resume...

Ha ha! This is great! Look"my DOGE team cut another $90 Billion, on top of the $14 Gajillion already cut from the US federal budget! This is great! We're winning"another big win for President Trump, the man greater than Jesus!
"Weird man who trolls the internet for women and children

Stinky Pete needs some new drinking buddies. I'll wager his old pals at Faux News are ducking and diving so as to not be roped into this new hell hole at the Pentagon. Pete needs someone new to blame for the beer farts let loose at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...

Hey, guys--the event is on a Saturday, which is golf day for El Rey Dotardo II. America should be relieved that the fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat is away from a newsman's microphone or his phone for a fer hours. As for Melania, she will be celebrating her big day with friends, in New York. Donald will not be able to make it, and even if he could, would not be told the location of the celebration...

This guy is further evidence that no one should ever trust the judgement or thinking of an addict. Like so many others in the current administration, the damage Heroin Bob will do will take a generation or more to overcome...

With (1) the removal of many internal watchdogs at governmental agencies, and (2) last week's demonstration that the Trump White House is willing and able to manipulate the US capital markets, the nascent premium for US Treasury securities will probably get wider. The absolute trust that investors worldwide have placed in US markets has been shaken, so those investors will demand a premium because of the additional risk from the grift which is now taking over in Washington. Of course, this additional premium will only make it more expensive for the US Government to borrow, but that burden falls more and more to the lower economic classes in this country.

As I've written before, until 2016 political risk was not a significant factor in US securities markets. We are now starting to see the cost of that risk, and it ain't negligible...

Witkoff is a condo salesman. He is in so far over his head, he can see the resting place for the Titanic. Vlad the deal maker must scarcely retain his glee when in he same room as buffoons like Witkoff or the other empty vessels sent by El Rey Dotardo II. For those who have never read "The Art of The Deal" pay attention to all the negotiations going on now in TrumpWorld, and you will have a demonstration of some of the worst negotiating an American government could undertake. Were Witkoff and his ilk representing the locals when the Dutch showed up on Lower Manhattan to do a deal, the price actually paid would have been far, far less...

Trump-supporting farmers often have signs expressing their adoration of this fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat on the edge of their property, where passing motorists can see. Just identify those farmers and explain to them that their water has literally passed over the dam and under the bridge, and they get no more...

So...Heroin Bob has a pack of deep thinkers who in six months will be able to crack the autism case, underway for decades in various studies by scientists world-wide. Uh huh. Bob's medical gang will probably include luminaries such as Dr. Johnny Fever, Dr. Demento, Dr. Feelgood, Dr. Detroit, Dr. Strange, Dr. Zhivago, Dr. Elmer Hoffman, Dr. Cockroach and Doc Octopus...

Until 2016 political risk was not of significant concern in the US capital markets. The US bond and equity markets were perhaps the envy of most investors worldwide because of the stability offered no Matt which flavor the government. Now investors in the US are experiencing a type of investment risk they cannot manage or hedge. The result is seen in the wild swings in the US markets this past week. The movement seen should be expected as long as El Rey Dotardo II remains at the helm of the ship of state ...