jerrymahoney

Headline today from the irreputable NYTimes: Trump Expands Trade Threats in Global Game of Chicken Trade wars with allies could spiral as the president tries to get trading partners to back down from retaliation with new threats of his own. OR You put your right foot in, you take your right foot out, you put your right foot in and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That’s what it’s all about.

Because it shows to some that Trump is Right and his Critics were WRONG AGAIN

Thanks.

Your link.

From the above Reuters link: But the relief offered by the tame Consumer Price Index report from the Labor Department on Wednesday could be temporary as the data did not fully capture a cascade of tariffs by President Donald Trump's administration, which has caused a surge in consumers' inflation expectations and prompted economists to upgrade their inflation forecasts. "Trade wars are expected to raise prices in future inflation reports," said Chris Low, chief economist at FHN Financial. "The Fed is sidelined now by price uncertainty."

What will they run on? They have no ideas. By then, maybe all they will need to run on is that they aren't Trump

As I've read (repeatedly) on here, elections-have-consequences. And so does the election in not having 60 Republican votes in the Senate.

Option 3:

NYTimes headline 1 minute ago: Senate Democrats balk at funding extension, raising the risk of a shutdown.

The resolution provides that each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025. https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20250310/RulesReport03102025.pdf

With that I have $1 million per year annual policy that should.

I just figure Karoline Leavitt wrote it with assistance from Steve Cheung.

Sophie Tucker (1886-1966): I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is better.

There is a Plan B penalty waiver for persons involved in International NGO activity and maintain personal medical insurance. So, for 2025 at $185.00 at per month, I have $2200 available for payment for Health insurance while in Thailand.

Headline today NY Times: House G.O.P. Passes Bill to Avert a Shutdown, Daring the Senate to Accept It Approval of the bill sent it to the Senate, where Republicans need the cooperation of several Democrats to move it past a * filibuster and to passage before a midnight deadline on Friday. * 60 vote

Even if existing benefits are untouched, it seems in shutting offices and laying off personnel that new accounts or customer service can be impacted.

Official White House response: FACT CHECK: President Trump Will Always Protect Social Security, Medicare The White House March 11, 202 https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/fact-check-president-trump-will-always-protect-social-security-medicare/

OK I am lucky. But I first got medical insurance in Thailand 20 years ago when I didn't have any disqualifying pre-existing conditions. One thing the self-insured folks say they either have a reserve or have otherwise access to a lump sum cash. I don't. My finances are geared to the 65K retirement extension so paying an annual premium is OK but I would have a difficult time especially on any timely basis coming up with major lump-sum cash.

Well there are 2 reasons people on here go for self-insurance: 1. is that they have some medical condition which prevents them from getting health insurance, and 2. Those that want to let you know how much smarter they are than the actuaries at Lloyd's (where almost all health insurance policies eventually end up).

Thanks. Self - insurance as commonly used here is not insurance as there is no shared risk -- which was the bedrock of insurance as founded at the Lloyd's coffee house in the late 1600's.

So, you don't have any insurance. You have a 'reserve' for any emergency prior to your getting yourself back to US assuming the 25 hour or so flying time is possible.

And many of us have insurance. While self-insurance is always an option, there is then never an option to have a claim paid for more than you put in.

As a single indication of what I believe, Morgan Stanley recently stated that ... That's OK. Morgan Stanley handles my accounts.

That presumes you are well enough and 'fit to fly' even to the airport in Bangkok.

Applying this to Donald Trump— 'cause he said it: “We will begin a new era of soaring incomes,” Mr. Trump said at a rally in October. “Skyrocketing wealth. Millions and millions of new jobs and a booming middle class. We are going to boom like we’ve never boomed before.”