The American dream, owned by private equity —it is another interesting development. You wonder if the Fair Housing Act is okay with it. It appears the Democrats are, but at least Blackstone is well-versed in politics. Schwarzman, whose net worth is pegged by Forbes at $18.2 billion, has given more to political campaigns this year than those who outspent him on Wall Street in the previous U.S. presidential election cycle of 2016, including Bloomberg LP founder Michael Bloomberg and hedge fund veterans George Soros, Paul Singer and Robert Mercer, the filings from the Center of Responsive Politics and the Campaign Finance Institute show.
What about a couple of billions —one to keep illegals and criminals off the street, the other to stop a project with no end, no objective, and unlimited budget ? You wonder—California, the leading AI state, the EV revolution leaders—but a railway to curb emissions? Nope. Here are some of the reasons, or explanations —call it dilettantism. Alcatraz— the idea of rebuilding it brings the whales to attention, while Ms. Pelosi would rather keep the place rotten. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat whose district includes Alcatraz, said in a statement that "the planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump administration's stupidest initiative yet." Maybe Elon should start a Rail–Link company—the boring he already owns?
Selling weapons to Europe —a good deal for the US and saving face for the European warmongers, to extend a useless war and convince Trump to join the fray. Or was it just tactical calculation? Let the Europeans, after obstructing and rebelling against talks , take the lead and let them take on the decision and the war, while at the same time cashing in. Putin seems unfazed by it , while Zelensky is still begging for peace talks.
Trump will win in the end as inflation remains stable and recession fears are giving way to optimism, and investments in the US as well as decisions about rare earth are strengthening US independence, easing the path for further talks on tariffs and trade deals. It is still an open book and history will be written, but the hopers for a doomsday scenario will have to find the next topic. And the worst—inequality rising for the last 30 years is now Trump's creation? No evidence, just Democratic thinking. This divide is expected to widen after President Donald Trump's sweeping new spending bill drastically cuts Medicaid and food aid , programs that stabilize the economy and subsidize low-wage employers.
I always thought that wages are better than food stamps and MAHA better than pills. Capitalism and democracy—democracy is not possible under socialist democracy. Social ownership: In a socialist democracy, the means of production are owned collectively or by the state, aiming to eliminate private ownership that leads to inequality. This can include public enterprises, cooperatives, and other forms of collective ownership.
When the CIA and its Russia-phobes are running a war, based on childhood drama and personal revenge, undermining all diplomatic and constructive resolutions, still living under the impression Stalin is alive? Perhaps the Russian hoax has some roots here, and only happy if all Russians are killed? Rakusan had spied on Russia since before the end of the Cold War, operating throughout Central and Eastern Europe. His hatred of the Russians was bred in the bone. His parents were Czech; he was 9 years old when Soviet troops crushed the Prague Spring uprising in 1968. Rakusan saw Russian President Vladimir Putin's subversion of the presidential election on Trump's behalf as the espionage equivalent of 9/11. In retaliation, he aimed to penetrate the Kremlin—among the greatest aspirations of the CIA since its foundation, and a goal never achieved.
"If you ask me the two biggest factors" that have allowed Ukraine to hold out against Russia, Sylvester said, "one was the decisions in 2014 onwards to invest, put in people and money, and training continuously, all the way up to the war. And second was this ongoing decision on the intelligence sharing and the repeated travel by our director all over Europe" in advance of the invasion.
It was a 1,000-year storm, but where are the records to prove it? The dinosaurs say so? Well, if you know a statistician, probability will be a 10,000-year storm coming, and we wait for a million years for the next meteorite, but no dinosaurs—what a pity. Sometimes a hundred years will do it , but that does not make the headlines. They are called atmospheric rivers.
MAHA may change some business models, from smoking to snack foods to dieticians, which is certainly needed to make the Fat Land into Slim Land , without pharmacy and medication. A tall task, but why not achievable? Because health care is the third-largest employer in the country. Perhaps it becomes another political battle —health by pharma is better than healthy food, or maybe food does not matter. It is the sitting and complaining or TDS? We are amid a national obesity crisis, and Americans are getting heavier. Today, about 65% of adults and 15% of children and adolescents in the US are overweight or obese.
The physiological mechanism causing the increase in obesity is no mystery: Americans eat more calories than they burn, and the excess energy is stored as fat. Greg Critser's book provides an insightful look at the reasons the energy balance equation has become so unbalanced. Critser delivers a comprehensive review of the governmental, agricultural, industrial, economic, and social factors that have contributed to today's obesity epidemic. Despite its encyclopedic content, Fat Land is a fascinating read because of his clear and entertaining writing style.
Here are the BMI values around the world and 100 years of American food. However, the real truth is probably simple: eating more calories than needed , but like smoking, habits.
