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Trump Treasury Sec Reveals Argentina Bailout Is Actually Twice as Big (October 15, 2025)
finance.yahoo.com
... But there's another notable beneficiary of the Trump admin's Argentina bailout package: major hedge funds led by Bessent's friends.
Several major investment funds, including BlackRock, Fidelity, and Pimco, stand to significantly gain from the aid transfer, as do several independent investors with ties to Bessent, The New York Times reported earlier this month. ...
@#8 ... Eastern Kentucky hearts coal. ...
Yup.
Back in the early 70's I worked in Louisville, Ky. I worked with an Engineer who came from eastern Kentucky. We became friends.
One of the things he told me was that his goal in life was to earn enough money to buy a truck so that he could go back home and drive that truck to carry coal.
And then, there's this ...
Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government is suffocating the working man'
apnews.com
... Lisa Emery loves to talk about her "boys." With each word, the respiratory therapist's face softens and shines with pride. But keep her talking, and it doesn't take long for that passion to switch to hurt. She knows the names, ages, families and the intimate stories of each one's scarred lungs. She worries about a whole community of West Virginia coal miners " including a growing number in their 30s and 40s " who come to her for help while getting sicker and sicker from what used to be considered an old-timer's disease: black lung.
"I love these guys," she said, wiping tears. "I tell them ... Every single one of y'all that sits down in that chair is why I feel like I was put on this earth.'"
As director of the New River Health Association Black Lung Clinic, Emery's seen guys as young as 45 getting double lung transplants as disease rates soar among miners forced to dig through more rock filled with deadly silica to reach the remaining coal " far worse than the dust their grandfathers inhaled. A rule approved last year by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration would cut the federal limit for allowable respirable crystalline silica dust exposure by half to help protect miners of all types nationwide from the current driving force of black lung and other illnesses.
But, now, it's in jeopardy amid other Trump administration cutbacks and proposals targeting workers' health and safety guardrails: Stuck in a politically charged environment that promotes industry, with lawmakers arguing to change it and the federal agency that wrote the rule not pushing to enforce it.
Some angry retired miners with black lung are fighting back, demanding that President Donald Trump honor promises he made to the people who voted him in. ...
@#56 ... It's not that interesting. ...
Yeah, I think it is.
... To assume all Jews must love Israel is an absurd concept. ...
I didn't refer to "all Jews." I mentioned that NYC has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel.
And, fwiw, from what I've seen on the local TV, Mr Cuomo got 60-70% of the Jewish vote.
History of the Jews in New York City
en.wikipedia.org
... Jews compose approximately 12% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel. As of 2020, over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs of New York City,[1] and over 1.9 million Jews lived in the New York metropolitan area, approximately 25% of the American Jewish population.[2]
Nearly half of the city's Jews live in Brooklyn.[3][4] ...
@#23 ... "FAA to Cut 10% of Flights Due to Shutdown" ...
More like 20%.
See #11.
And this is going into the Thanksgiving holiday travel season...