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SusanInFlorida

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Are boomers “strangling the American economy”? Or this just a rant that some retirees haven’t died quickly enough?

Photo above - "Breakfast at Sunset Manor nursing home". This is evidently how Fortune Magazine sees boomers. Stop hoarding all that wealth and power, mom! Fortune Magazine sez: “Boomers are terrified of outliving their money.” (link below). Well,... See More »

House of representatives votes to end Iran war funding. Trump ignores them, and uses “wartime powers act” to gift $700 million to the coal industry.

Photo above - "This means war !!" White House uses wartime powers act to give $700 million to the US coal industry . . . This is what 250 years of byzantine legislation has brought us to. Congress votes to stop the Iran war, and Trump ignores... See More »

The $1.7 trillion dilemma - we don’t want any of the following in our community: nuclear, solar or wind farms, fossil fuel plants, data centers . . .

Photo above - Not in my backyard. We have zoning laws against power plants here . . . $1.7 trillion is the estimated value of all the power plants which generate our electricity. Every American wants more kilowatt hours, and more internet... See More »

Wall Street Panics. Stocks have worst single day crash in 4 years. Analysts blame the “excellent May jobs report” . . . ?

Photo above – Wisconsin's “Fireball” roller coaster riders are rescued a week ago, after they were left hanging upside down for hours. NASDAQ is off 4%. S&P index nearly 3%. The market is still way up compared April, but still . . . down 4% in a... See More »

1,500 to 1 . . . ! AI bots turn out to be a major reason why web and data center traffic are out of control.

Photo above – a Google search for “Epstein Trump News Today” generated 93,000 links. Would a news bot try to visit them all? I recently shopped for an Apple tablet. A birthday gift for someone. I visited Amazon, Best Buy, and some other site.... See More »

“All your stock shares are belong to us . . . “ Bernie Sanders plans to have the US government seize control of AI companies worth $1.XT

Photo above – future US senator Bernie Sanders, protesting racial segregation at 23. I prefer to remember him as the 1963 version, not the Octogenarian socialist who wants to nationalize our tech companies today. Wow . . . have the government... See More »

The $1.5 trillion problem with AI – most companies’ data is so disorganized and unreliable that AI can’t deal with it.

Photo above - the ground-breaking IBM 5100 personal computer from the late 20th century. For $19,975 you got 64 KB of ram (kilobytes, not megabytes or gigabytes) Evidently 21st century AI systems are having difficulty digesting corporate data from... See More »

Let’s help Trump decide how to use his cancelled $1.8 billion weaponization fund, since that turns out to be illegal . . .

Photo above – records indicate America spent $300,000 on mall fireworks for the 1976 bicentennial celebration. The 2026 fireworks display is reportedly budgeted at $150 million - 500X more. (Disclaimer - yeah I know this picture is of the Statue... See More »

Portland's new mayor ran on a promise to end homelessness. Missed that goal, but he’s raised taxes and fees $1 billion annually on city residents.

Photo above - Portland Oregon's homeless population soared 500% during the past decade. It is possible that substance abuse is the real problem, and not wages and affordable housing options? Portland Mayor Keith Wilson – a millionaire CEO – isn’t... See More »

Your name used to be worth 10 cents. Now its value is $1MM because of AI?????

Photo above - Neo, demonstrating his spam prevention powers when AI marketing is perfected I was shocked – shocked I tell you – when I was told in younger days that my address was worth 10 cents to advertisers. Now it's 2026 and I get alarmist upd... See More »

Is it time to sell short the shares of consulting companies, and make big profits? Or has the smart money already done this?

Photo above – “Bob” and “Bob”. These are the consultants hired by InTech in the film “Office Space”. The Bobs eventually recommended firing all InTech employees, plus the manager. Some people already know how consulting companies work: Places... See More »

Okay, no one bought into California’s 250 mph bullet train fantasy. How about a 140 mph bus costing $100 billion, +/- . . . ?

Photo above - "I see dead people. They talk to me. But they don't know they're dead yet. They're about to get on a 140 mph bus travelling through an earthquake zone". Screen shot courtesy of the 1999 film "The Sixth Sense". Imagine the bragging... See More »

America’s debt crisis. Even larger spending deficits are looming. What if we had been allowed to choose our own fate?

Photo above - John Wick, America's favorite vigilante. He is NOT presumed to be part of the "Bond Vigilantes" behind this month's crash of T-Bills, however. Word of the day: “Bond Vigilantes”. This is Wall Street's term for bond traders who... See More »

Saying the quiet part out loud – we’re all “lower value human capital” now . . .

The CEO of a major bank could not have put it any more succinctly. This bank’s value jumped 65% over the past year, and to keep the party going 7,000 bank jobs will disappear. Because those workers are “lower value human capital”, to be replaced... See More »

Hollywood stars say “capitalism is destroying films”. What’s their solution? Movies produced by the US government?

Photo above - Hollywood producers accuse "capitalism" when they can't get investors to pony up for bad film ideas. However, I blame these CGI rendered "stars", and their $500 million atrocity. This was probably inevitable. A mashup of CGI/AI,... See More »

Congress proposes $130 annual fee on EVs. 41 states collect their own EV fees. I hope these taxes go toward new power plants instead of data centers.

Photo above – the Natrium® electric plant in Wyoming, under construction since 2024 by Bechtel. First phase completion is targeted for 2028. Fully operational by 2030, hopefully. I’m so old, I can remember when the Obama administration gave... See More »

800,000 tech workers jobless in silicon valley. Most were cut prior to the rise of AI. That’s billions in California state income tax lost.

Photo above - screenshot courtesy of the film "Office Space". This worker did not recently lose his job to AI. He was axed previously. “California tech workers were hoping things would rebound this year.” There’s so much wrong with that sentence,... See More »

Price controls on insurance. $50 billion in homeowners’ savings, or does history show that something worse happens next?

Photo above – California beachfront living could get more affordable if the new governor caps insurance rates. Or will price controls mean California houses like these tumble into the sea even faster, or disappear in wildfires? Forget the... See More »

Wait – the Federal Reserve owns $6.7 TRILLION in securities, and that’s what’s propping up the stock market?

Photo above - Incoming Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh. Forced to resign from the federal reserve in 2011 by then-chairman Ben Bernanke. Warsh has a Harvard law degree and has been a university guest lecturer for the past 15 years. I plead... See More »

Railroad strike prevents 300,000 riders from getting to work. Union wants 4 years of wage increases at double the inflation rate.

Photo above - "Tag, you're it". NYC commuter train with colorful graffiti. The LIRR is now on strike, so 300,000 daily commuters will be deprived of the fine arts . . . You might think that taking the Long Island Railroad to work is pricey. And... See More »

Iran war costs reach $29 billion. This does NOT include higher prices on gasoline, food, airfare, etc.

Photo above - Stevie Wonder would like to have a word with us . . . “Congress questions Pentagon spending”. Has there ever been a LESS scary title for a senate hearing? A “bipartisan” congress is becoming annoyed at the Iran war, which costs... See More »

California high speed rail cost soars from $130 billion to $231 billion in less than a year. It’s not dead yet . . .

Photo above - this is NOT the "Gambler's Express" bullet train from LA to Vegas. That was proposed in 2008 (when Arnold Schwarznegger was governor, and Obama was president. Billions have been spent so far, without a single mile of track being laid.... See More »

Which gives a better return on investment? A college degree, or putting money in the stock market?

Photo above – Screenshot courtesy of "Coming to America' (1988); The Wealthy Barber was published a year later in Canada. It is seldom included in college or high school curriculums. The cynics among us can probably answer this question – is a... See More »

New data center emits heat equivalent to 23 nuclear bombs - every day. How much will the electricity cost for air conditioning?

Photo above - HBO's WestWorld screen shot. Delores asks: "Oh, Teddy . . .why can't we just leave now, before they build the worlds largest data center over there?" Utah was one of the sites used for on-location filming of the show's outdoor... See More »

Starbucks to close Seattle HQ and lose 2,000 jobs after mayor calls for boycott? (“Mess around and find out” edition)

Photo above - Seattle experiences an average of 4 drug overdose deaths daily. New Mayor Katie Wilson ran on a platform of boycotting Starbucks, possibly because addicts don't vote . . . It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Newly... See More »

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