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OPINION and ANALYSIS After reviewing George Will’s outstanding video the international coffee trade and several videos on various European leaders sharing their comments about Trump, we couldn’t help but to revisit the exceedingly worrisome issue that has hung over Trump since the days in 2016 when, at a press conference, he asked the Russians Read More …
[ANALYSIS AND OPINION] It’s been six months since Trump took office. On the economic front it’s difficult to gauge Trump’s performance simply because of his off and on approach to tariffs. One thing is clear. Congress has generally let Trump have his way on both the economy. The same is true with respect to foreign Read More …
[ANALYSIS and OPINION] Here’s the video we did on Trump’s latest move. This may be the biggest of all. Control over what is really the fourth branch of government. The Federal Reserve.
[ANALYSIS and OPINION] Are tariffs a good idea? Here are some basics: Below are some rough notes taken from the short video for this post: Free trade policies are designed to increase the trade of goods and services between countries. Tariff’s which are really taxes on imports make the prices of the goods that are Read More …
[Editor’s Note: This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played. The transcript is in 3 parts. (1.)The first is the first half of a transcript of the radio broadcast with tune links; (2.) The Editorial: Read More …
[NEWS ANALYSIS, OPINION & TUNES] [Welcome to another edition of TNnT which is short for “Tick’s Notes & Tunes”, where we usually start with “Notes” of interest on various, usually important, topics which are followed by “Tunes” which is the transcript of a fictional short wave radio transmission from where and when we do Read More …
Below are links to various videos we’ve done going back to 2017 concerning the fields of: Finance Economics (Macro) International Business OTHER RELATED VIDEOS OF INTEREST Videos on Interest Rates and Monetary Policy were updated as follows: The Fed Interest Rates GDP 08-31-19 Youtube https://youtu.be/GMyIX5idBH8 The Fed Interest Read More …
Power Focused Voters v. the Facts [Opinion and Analysis] In the last few days a couple of very short but important articles have been published. Below is a direct quote from an article written by Sarah K. Burris of the Raw Story dated either December 31, 2023 or January 1, 2024. What she says rings Read More …
[OPINION and ANALYSIS] According to “FRED” , the acronym for Federal Reserve Economic Data, the Federal Reserve Bank’s on-line data source, and keeper of important economic statistics, the amount of total federal debt as a percentage of GDP (gross domestic product) of the United States has actually decreased since the last year of Donald Trump’s Read More …
[OPINION, ANALYSIS and FUN.] NOTES Aside from perhaps the war in Ukraine and the classified document issues facing Trump, Biden and Pence etc., the biggest thing in the news is probably the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT which is now being made widely available to the general public. ChatGPT is, of course, can do Read More …