Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Apply to Chips, but Taiwan Remains Wary
The chip companies in Taiwan, the center of the global supply chain, are expected to face pressure from Washington to invest more in the U.S.
Friday, April 4, 2025
Meathead doesn't understand our “America’s Edge,” where Anne-Marie Slaughter argued that power in the 21st century would accrue to nations that put themselves in the center of networks, and that America was well suited to play that role. We have a diverse populace with global connections, alliances across two great oceans, the greatest universities with large foreign student bodies.
As a long time food importer I was never impressed by Food and Drug testing and safety enforcement
F.D.A. Layoffs Could Raise Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety
Trump cutbacks were supposedly aimed at administrators. But scientists in food and drug-testing labs and policy experts who advance generic drug approvals were also dismissed.
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Trump hits everyone not on his shit list with a minimum 10% tariff. Now he has to get Congress to eliminate the ninety-nine chapter U.S. Tariff Schedule and release the bureaucrats enforcing them and the private bureaucrat followers to find employment elsewhere
Friday, February 14, 2025
Trump Widens Trade Fight to Include Global Taxes and Regulation
President Trump and his team are keen on imposing tariffs on imports but instead of a mercurial approach with a decision one day and a reversal the next it is suggested he and his administration first apply a KISS (keep it simple stupid) approach. First, have Congress make a new tariff law that eliminates all previous ones for a new one that simply charges 5% of the invoice value. Most importantly this duty should be on all imports on all goods from all countries without exception. Second, he should have his cohort Elon Musk eliminate the staff devoted to the implementation of the ninety-nine chapter U.S. Tariff Schedule and release them and their private bureaucrat followers to find employment in some other field. Additional tariffs could be applied by the executive branch to friend or foe and complicated or simple as they would like but never by modifying the fixed 5% rate passed by Congress applied to every country without exception.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Sure, service members like it when senior leaders work out alongside them, but they like it much more when senior leaders live by the same standards they impose on their troops. They also like it much more when senior leaders can keep the nation’s most precious secrets.
What Rusting Russian Tanks Can Teach Us About the Pete Hegseth Group Chat
Opinion Columnist
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, several leading Trumpists developed a strange fascination with the Russian Army. They contrasted masculine Russian recruitment ads, which featured chiseled Russian soldiers displaying their martial prowess, with much softer American ads on social media.
The Russians were masculine and tough, they said. Americans were woke and weak. But the illusion of Russian prowess was shattered on those battlefields north of Kyiv. There is much more to military strength than physicality and bravado. Ukraine, the much smaller representative of the so-called woke West, has turned much of Russia’s conventional arsenal into smoking ruins.
It’s telling that Hegseth is turning to martial, masculine symbolism to save his career. He’s putting out images of himself working out with Navy SEALs, as if his fitness can cover for his carelessness and incompetence.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
As the Trump administration has responded with a mixture of denials, brush-offs, lies and vitriolic attacks on Mr. Goldberg, I’ve found myself worrying less about the leak and more about the character of the people in charge of our nation’s defense. The breach is serious, but security breaches can be plugged. Men and women who have shown themselves to have no character, though, can never be trusted. Not with national security, not with anything.
Security Breaches Can Be Fixed. People Without Honor Can’t Be Trusted.
Mr. Klay is a novelist and a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq war.
Its so French
They Want More Babies. Now They Have Friends in the White House.
The American conservative movement has long worked to put the nuclear family at the center of cultural and economic life. Lately, it has added a twist. It wants to make those families bigger.
Neighborhood Grocery
Dear Diary:
It was 1987. I had just moved to New York from Texas. I loved going to small neighborhood grocery stores in the city. They were so different from the huge suburban ones I was used to.
One day, when I was in Grace’s Marketplace on the Upper East Side, I overheard a customer addressing the man behind the counter.
“Do you have fresh escargot?” the customer said.
“No,” the counterman said. “But we have snails in a can.”
— Kate Marcus
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Personally I'm keeping my Rover another three years despite its ridiculously high costs
Trump’s Tariffs Leave Automakers With Tough, Expensive Choices
Carmakers are likely to face higher costs regardless of how they respond to President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on cars and auto parts.
Again its Saturday morning when I post this and I can't wait for Saturday Night Live
Vance Makes Quick Trip to Greenland, a Place That Doesn’t Want Him
Vice President JD Vance’s trip to an island that President Trump wants to “get” was a scaled-back version of the original White House plan. “He’s not welcome,” one Greenlander said.
Jeffrey Gettleman reported from London, and Maya Tekeli from Nuuk, Greenland.
It's Saturday morning while I write this but I can't wait for Saturday Night Live
Hegseth Seeks to Reassure Allies on First Official Trip to Asia
At his first stop in the Philippines, the U.S. defense secretary promised to strengthen deterrence against Chinese “threats” in the region. He also plans to visit Japan.
Current Price of Tesla reflects a 100 Price Earnings ratio which is five times higher then a well priced stock and ten times higher than dreary auto stock like GM or Ford and which Elon is working hard to sink to to
They Loved Their Teslas. Now They’re Too Embarrassed to Drive Them.
Fury at Elon Musk emerges as vandalism, protest and buyer’s remorse.
Friday, March 28, 2025
By imposing secondary sanctions unless the Russia universal tariff is paid, the United States would be taking a cut of the revenues, effectively increasing the discount on Russian oil. Russia’s continued exports, despite facing large discounts over the past three years, suggest it would continue exporting the same volume. That would keep global oil supply stable and help keep oil prices in check. Oil and gas in Russia are inexpensive to produce, and it relies heavily on the income they generate, so it has little option but to keep selling, even at lower prices.
How to Punish Russia, Make Money and End the War
Glenn Hubbard and
Dr. Hubbard, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is a professor at Columbia University. Dr. Wolfram, a former deputy assistant secretary for climate and energy in the Treasury Department, is a professor at M.I.T.’s Sloan School of Management.
Monday, March 24, 2025
Canadians trashing Tesla's can counter Trump Tariffs by buying the Ford Mustang EV's built in Mexico
Canadians Turn on Tesla, and It Becomes Physical
More than 80 Teslas were damaged in Hamilton, Ontario, the police said, amid other acts of vandalism against the company owned by Elon Musk.
Friday, March 21, 2025
What a waste! Actually Musk is right about drones. Look at Ukraine and where its taken drone warfare and the marginal effect of it jet fighters
President Trump says company has been selected to build what may turn out to be the most expensive fighter in history
Oil Executives should be looking for Trump to dismantle the Department of Energy like he is doing to Education
What Oil Executives Want From President Trump
Tariffs, tax credits and deregulation are among the industry’s top priorities.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Ron DeSantis: Good Riddance to the U.S. Education Department Florida shows how states can lead in ensuring that children learn.
Ron DeSantis shows how states can lead in ensuring that children learn.
The fact that Solar and Wind can add capacity in 18 Months versus 5 Years for gas and more for nuclear means they don't need subsidies!
Want Cheap Power, Fast? Solar and Wind Firms Have a Suggestion.
Renewable energy companies are shifting strategy under President Trump, emphasizing the economic benefits of low-carbon electricity.
Reporting from Houston
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
My specialty food import agency hasn't booked anything with the EU since Trump's election
Trade War Expected to Weigh on Global Economy
Growth outlooks in the United States and several other countries are projected to slow this year and next, as uncertainty on trade and economic policy takes their toll.
Reporting from London
One of Mr. Trump’s advisers, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said the Biden presidency proved to Mr. Trump that the stock market is not a foolproof barometer of the economy’s future, nor a useful indicator of voter sentiment. If it were, Mr. Biden, who presided over a booming stock market, would surely be the president, the adviser said, explaining Mr. Trump’s thinking.
Trump’s Unwelcome News to Auto Chiefs: Buckle Up for What’s to Come
President Trump’s approach to tariffs has unsettled many corporate leaders who believed he would use the levies as a negotiating tool. As it turns out, he sees them as an end in themselves.
Jonathan SwanMaggie Haberman and Ana Swanson
Reporting from Washington
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