Alan Zweibel

Even though I suspect Trump will retaliate by imposing tariffs on them.

This may be going too far, but I believe that FIFA should take back its Peace Prize from Trump.

I think it's more of a mixed bag with China. A lot of the tariffs they're lowing are for industrial inputs. And they've also raised some tariffs on some high tech stuff and chemicals. And also on dairy products. And the economy is still structured to subsidize exports. And the exchange rate is tightly controlled.

It's what economists call a K shaped economy. Basically the economy is being sustained by AI investment and increased spending by the wealthiest Americans feeling the wealth effect as stocks rise.. The upper stroke of the K. The rest of Americans aren't doing so well and job creation is very low.

I don't think BRICS has been suppressed. Without China BRICS doesn't amount to much. And who's going to trust China? It doesn't let the Yuan float freely and it's subject to capital controls. Xi has demonstrated in the past that he doesn't like or understand free markets.

Well, to make clear the obvious, in neither case would serving a warrant have, much less making an arrest have any legal validity

No. What's your point?

What has that got to do with the allegedly legality of a warrant that has no legal validity in the country in which it was served?

When the results of a method you suggested comes up with results you find contradicting what you, that amounts to nothing?

Virginia Democrats on Friday paved the way to aggressively gerrymander in the state — the latest step in a process they hope will hand them as many as four more congressional seats in this fall’s midterm elections. The Democrat-dominated Virginia Senate passed a constitutional amendment along party lines that allows state lawmakers to begin redrawing congressional maps. The final decision will eventually go before voters in a spring special election. Earlier this week, the House of Delegates approved the measure by 62-33. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/16/virginia-redistricting-legislature-00733644 Karma comes for the Republicans?

The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC. Among the other lucky recipients: a man whose daughter had given millions to a Trump-backed super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a former F.B.I. agent — all of whom had pleaded guilty in a political corruption case. The pardons, most of which have not been previously reported, were supported by people with close ties to Mr. Trump’s orbit, including lawyers who had worked for him. They continue a trend in which Mr. Trump has used the unfettered presidential clemency power to reward allies and those who have paid his associates or donated to his political operation. The approach stands in contrast to Justice Department guidelines that prioritize the clemency applications of people who have completed their prison sentences or demonstrated remorse and a lower likelihood of recidivism. https://archive.ph/KJdk6 Maybe Trump has a kind of environmental consciousness.? He's decided that draining the swamp is actually environmentally unsound, so he's decided to fill it up again?

As Donald Trump shatters the global rules-based order, official institutions (and private investors) are scrambling to buy gold: the share of the asset in central banks’ reserves has doubled in the past decade to more than a quarter, the highest level in almost 30 years... “We have moved from Pax Americana to global discord, geopolitically. It is the law of the jungle when we see what the US are doing,” says Raphaël Gallardo, the chief economist at the asset manager Carmignac. “Investors – private and sovereign – believe their strategic reserves are no longer safe in dollar terms, as they can be confiscated overnight. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/16/the-dollar-is-losing-credibility-why-central-banks-are-scrambling-for-gold

I did exactly as you requested and the results contradicted your claim. Now you claim that out there somewhere there's evidence to support your claim but you fail to produce it. Instead, you offer a lame insult which is clearly contradicted by the results of the inquiry the criterion of which you stipulated. Hoist by your own petard, much? It is to laugh.

President Donald Trump said he may impose tariffs on countries "if they don't go along with Greenland." "We need Greenland for national security. So I may do that," Trump said at the White House. The comments came as the Supreme Court could soon deliver its ruling on the legality of Trump's "reciprocal" and fentanyl-related tariffs. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/trump-greenland-tariffs.html Another day, another tariff threat. Nothing unhinged about this at all.

From chatgpt: The real legal standard Self-defense is judged by whether each use of force was reasonable and necessary at the time it was used. That means: The first shot doesn’t automatically “count” as justified Later shots are not automatically illegal Every shot can be evaluated separately What matters is whether the threat was still imminent when each shot was fired. From Gemini AI In the eyes of the law and forensic science, the idea that "only the first shot counts" is a misconception. Self-defense is not judged by a single moment, but by the entirety of the encounter. Whether you fire one shot or several, each pull of the trigger must be legally "justified" based on the threat present at that exact micro-second. Today is really not your day.

From Gemini AI ". Number of Shots Fired According to video analysis (including footage from the agent's phone and bystanders), the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, fired three shots in rapid succession (under one second) as the vehicle was moving. Shot 1: Fired through the front windshield. Shots 2 & 3: Fired through the driver’s side window as the vehicle passed the agent. 2. Number of Gunshot Wounds While three shots were fired, the Minneapolis Fire Department incident report (released on January 16, 2026) documented that Renee Good sustained four gunshot wounds: Two wounds to her right chest. One wound to her left forearm. One wound to the left side of her head. The discrepancy between the number of "shots fired" and "wounds found" can sometimes occur if a single bullet creates both an entry and an exit wound (re-entry), or if a bullet fragments." Despite which, I do want to acknowledge the impressive intellectual effort it must have taken you to produce "WÀAAÀAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÀAAAA." I hope I got the number of "A'"s right. I don't want to misrepresent in any way the intellectual force of this potent argument. As for only the first shot counts in a case of alleged self-defense, really?

Four times? Inventing much? As for "it worked"? Ever hear of the logical fallacy "post hoc ergo propter hoc" which translates to "after this therefore because of this".You should get acquainted with it. As for predicting her wife's indictment, you have a sorry history when it comes to predicting indictments.

Actually he fired three shots and at least two of them were from the side. She was hit all three times.

And this was before Trump threatened to impose a further 25% surcharge on countries that continued to trade with Iran. Think how exciting it must be for businesses never to be sure of how much they're going to have to pay in tariffs and never able to project how much you'll have to charge their buyers.

The defensive perimeter? What are you on about? What are these large targets? So not only is the fruit low hanging but it's rotted? Bizarre.

You mean like those 3 native Americans?

Businesses across the U.S. are beginning to pass tariff costs to consumers, Fed's 'beige book' finds Inflation pressures were rising across the U.S. as 2025 ended, according to the Federal Reserve's periodic view of the economy known as the "beige book." "Cost pressures due to tariffs were a consistent theme across all districts" the report said Wednesday. Several businesses that initially absorbed tariff-related costs were beginning to pass them on to customers as pretariff inventories became depleted or as price pressures grew more acute, the report noted. https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260114231/businesses-across-the-us-are-beginning-to-pass-tariff-costs-to-consumers-feds-beige-book-finds

Native Americans Are Caught Up in ICE Crackdown in Minneapolis

Please, I specified "pose a threat" Trump keeps on claiming he's going after the dangerous criminals and the mentally ill. It's just not true.

No. I asked if they were illegal immigrants. Not if they were Somali immigrants.