Alan Zweibel

All you've got is empty insults.

And why should that be surprising? Trump committed the United States to wage economic warfare against Canada. A country that was once closely and virtually seamlessly integrated into the US economy he decided was an enemy.

When President Trump unveiled his trade deal with the European Union in July, businesses across the bloc thought it would end months of uncertainty for one of the world’s most lucrative trade relationships. Less than two months on, frustration with the deal is growing in Europe. Businesses are halting exports to the U.S., complaining about new bureaucratic hurdles and warn https://archive.ph/m29ms

Sure, that's why the deep South switched its allegiance from Democratic to Republican when it voted overwhelmingly for the Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, who voted to oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1963. And that's when the South began to turn Republican. For further information, look into Richard Nixon's southern strategy.

Trump calls Florida's move to eliminate vaccine mandates a 'tough stance': 'You have vaccines that work' "President Donald Trump said on Friday that Florida officials are taking a "tough stance" by moving to eliminate all vaccine mandates for students, as he stated that some "vaccines should be used." "I think we have to be very careful. You have some vaccines that are so amazing. The polio vaccine, I happen to think, is amazing," Trump told reporters, adding that he believes the COVID-19 vaccine developed during his first term is also "amazing." He continued: "You have some vaccines that are so incredible, and I think you have to be very careful when you say that some people don't have to be vaccinated. It's a very tough position … it's a tough stance." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-floridas-move-eliminate-vaccine-mandates-tough-stance-you-have-vaccines-work Let's see how long this unprecedented acknowledgement of reality lasts. I'm betting not long.

Such stupidity. It used to calling people drug traffickers was enough to brand them as evil. Now they have to be called terrorists as well. Terrorists are people who have some kind of political and/or social agenda and use violence to impose what they want on society. Drug traffickers are just lowlifes who want to make money via a dirty dirty business. In addition, we are going to have to take the Trump administration's word that these people were narcotics traffickers. And even if they were, it's very hard to find anyone who will characterize this approach as legal. If it's not legal to shoot suspected drug trafickers on sight in the USA, why should it be legal in international waters?

Justin Sun, a major investor in World Liberty Financial’s cryptocurrency, said that his coins had been “unreasonably frozen.”... Late Thursday, Mr. Sun hit out at the company, World Liberty Financial, posting on X that his stash of coins had been “unreasonably frozen” after analyst speculation that Mr. Sun was moving to sell them... In his post on X, Mr. Sun said that the freezing of his coins undermined “sacred and inviolable” principles of the crypto world, violating the “legitimate rights of investors.” https://archive.ph/53yIM Lie down with dogs, get up with freeze.

Everyone knows that floods are also a real inevitable thing. But there are things you can do to mitigate the problem and things you can do to exacerbate the problem. The same goes from the economy. So what's your point?

First off, what's that got to do with the loss of 12,000 workers in the manufacturing sector? Second, those kids work on illegal marijuana farms. You think that their employers report to the government? Any more ridiculous notions to share with the rest of us?

It is obvious why most people including economists think low net employment is a bad thing. Just saying it isn't a bad thing without offering an explanation why is, to put it tactfully, not real intelligent.

Bad for American workers.

Are you claiming that members of aseannow.com are also in the Epstein files? Or that they're pedophiles? Or are you just offering up more nonsense?

"The government also revised its numbers from earlier in the summer, and said that the economy lost a net 13,000 jobs in June. It was the first such decline since December 2020." https://archive.ph/hkCVP#selection-519.0-523.69

The U.S. economy added jobs at a slower pace in August amid uncertainty about economic conditions, adding to signs of a weakening labor market. The Labor Department on Friday reported that employers added 22,000 jobs in August, a figure that was well below the 75,000 estimate of economists polled by LSEG. The unemployment rate also rose to 4.3% in August, which was in line with expectations and up from the 4.2% reading in July. https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-jobs-report-august-2025 Winning!

When you need to resort to talking about other members private lives, that doesn't show how little of substance they have to offer. It's you who is offering insubstantial nonsense.

Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files So that's why Trump is so angry and is urging MAGA supporters to vote against Massie? Because a rerelease makes no sense. Laughable.

Because that's what people are going to pay attention to? The footnote that it's not official. Even though the President, Secretary of Defense, etc will now be calling it the Dept. of War? Give us all a break.

If everything had already been released before, then why is Trump against the release of more documents? Your comment makes no sense.

And how do you know it's valuable? Just take their word for it? You don't cross a check the research, if any, they base their claims on?

Behind This Season’s Bumper Earnings: Job Cuts, Price Hikes, Glum Workers Consumer spending isn’t driving company profits as much as reducing expenses and improving efficiency. That could be a problem. American companies are once again beating profit expectations, but this time around they aren’t banking on blockbuster consumer spending to make it happen. Instead, the latest batch of quarterly earnings are getting a lift from managers who are squeezing out costs, boosting productivity and turning to new technologies. https://archive.ph/jAmW0

Where did I say or indicate I was offended? I don't take the foolish things other do as grounds for taking offense. I do wonder why you resort to videos rather than the written word.

What is it with right wingers and videos? Is there some massive case of dyslexia that has afflicted them? Do I really have to explain why it's so dad that your criterion ithat you should "find some people who seem like they know what they're talking about, and then make up your own mind."

...no information about what the numbers are based on...? Really? From the article... "The impact of tariffs on the pocketbook can be calculated using consumption data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and applied tariff rate data from UN Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS), which are matched with the spending habits of various income groups. For each income bracket, some 21 product groups that are subject to a nonzero tariff (ranging from fruits and vegetables to furniture) are assigned tariff impact scores equal to the share of consumption spent on those products times the tariff rate on imported goods of the same type. For example, imported poultry products are subject to an average tariff of 10 percent. Poultry makes up about 0.4 percent of consumption for households making less than $5,000, which serves as the “weight” for the tariff on poultry products. The results are then averaged, giving an average tariff faced by consumers for each income bracket (on products that are associated with a nonzero tariff). This calculation assumes that a tariff of 10 percent raises the price of both imports and competing domestic goods by 10 percent. That does not always happen. Some domestic producers offer lower prices for goods competing with imports. But even if the impact of tariffs on consumers is imprecise, the figures show that the relative impact of the US tariff schedule affects different household income groups in different ways. The impact disproportionately falls on lower income households, as any regressive tax, such as a sales tax, would." And Trump's tariffs are far higher and more widespread than what existed before. So that somehow means that they "have nothing to do with the recent Trump tariffs." Your comments are a clear case of economic and mathematical cluelessness.

Even if that's true, Trump's tariffs will raise the price of new appliances. Which means that the prices of used ones go up, too.

Tariffs Hit Poor Americans Hardest Raising or maintaining tariffs on imports is called protectionism for a reason. The goal is to protect domestic industry and jobs from lower priced foreign goods. But often forgotten is the impact of the US tariff structure on the wallets of American consumers when they visit shopping malls and have to pay a higher price for the goods they purchase. The table below tells the story by income category: Poor households get hit hardest. https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/2014/tariffs-hit-poor-americans-hardest