It is going to be exciting for Republicans. I think I have figured out Donald Trump’s strategy. Trump has prosecutors and lawyers up and down the Eastern Seaboard after him. He has the DA in New York City in the Stormy Daniels case. He has a special federal prosecutor in the Jan. 6 and documents […]
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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has made the Federal Reserve’s life more complicated. It is trying to bring down inflation. Until the middle of last week, that meant raising interest rates enough to throttle down the economy. The economy has not been cooperating. In January, it added 500,000 new jobs and in February it
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-03-04/rupert-murdoch-fox-new-accused-spreading-election-lies In order to be successful, Fox News had to look like a normal news network. This always caused problems, because its bread-and-butter was as a conservative thought leader. But there are a lot of conservative thought leaders. What set Fox apart was that it hired actual journalists to report the news, in addition to
https://www.postandcourier.com/columbia/business/volkswagen-subsidiary-scout-building-2b-plant-near-columbia-as-scs-ev-business-grows/article_5c5b3000-b9d8-11ed-9e09-f7d76b22e2d8.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%203423&utm_content=Daily%20Headlines%203423+CID_c866cdd7d150e24ad3f1196df4a578c9&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=Volkswagen%20subsidiary%20Scout%20building%202B%20plant%20near%20Columbia%20as%20SCs%20EV%20business%20grows South Carolina is a Republican state. But it likes electric vehicles, especially EV plants that bring thousands of jobs. Texas is also a Republican state, but it likes Tesla a lot. And North Carolina likes EVs, especially its legislative leadership, because of the jobs they are bringing to rural counties like Randolph. I find
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-03-04/china-puts-private-enterprise-on-notice-as-congress-begins-new-economy-saturday?cmpid=BBD030423_NEF&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230304&utm_campaign=nef&sref=y5OnTMHX This story from Bloomberg talks about how the Communist Party in China is getting more intrusive into big business in China. It reminded me about when I was an undergraduate, studying business at ODU in the early 1980s What was drilled into our heads was that the primary goal of a company was to
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