Irony is dead

*HASSETT: TIME FOR FED TO CAUTIOUSLY REDUCE RATES It's easy to make predictions about something that's already happening...

“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?” — Matthew 16:26 www.axios.com/2025/12/04/m...

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"

Back-to-back in my timeline:

Wait, the White House is going to war with Sabrina Carpenter? Oh, this is going to get good.

What, exactly do they think a new Fed Chair, by himself and without credibility is going to change? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Aaron Rodgers has the look of YA Tittle on his knees in the end zone. (IYKYK)

The storm continues in Ann Arbor. And oh, yes, the weather is getting worse, too.

I had no idea how many Ohio State and Michigan coaches would be on here posting their opinions during The Game.

At your Thanksgiving table, say a prayer for the National Guard soldiers shot in Washington.

Interesting marketing strategy: potato chips -- made from potatoes!

I take it there are no economists working at the Department of Labor...

Started to listen to the WH briefing, but the innumeracy and ignorance was too much.

*VANCE: JOB GROWTH IS GOING TO NATIVE-BORN AMERICAN CITIZENS Tell me you don't understand the US employment statistics without telling me you don't understand them

"Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist..." www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

The Three Stooges, wrapped up in one EDVA Attorney

If Trump sends people $2,000 "tariff revenue" checks, which then helps the Supreme Court rule his IEEPA tariffs are illegal, does everyone have to send the money back? Asking for 300 million or so friends...

It seems you can mess with Texas just fine. If you're from Georgia.

Very strict rules at the Nepal Finance Ministry.

Even better than I suggested, from @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Why do the words F-You come to mind?

Surprised I haven't seen this in every post about the "promised vote" on health care premiums.

Who is it that you will keep fighting?

If you give a mouse a cookie....

Once again, YGBFKM www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Can we all agree that cinnamon-pecan-swirl coffee is not something that should be consumed?

One wonders what kind of human beings they are in our federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u... www.koin.com/news/oregon/...

Totally sucks he got drafted by the Raiders

Challenger announced job cuts released early. 153,074 in October, up 175% from Oct 2024, highest for the month since 2003. YTD hiring plans down 35% from last year. Seasonal hiring plans lowest since Challenger began tracking in 2012.

Reminds me I haven't heard him talk about his "Michigan Man of the Year" award in a while. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

Barrett, a key swing vote, presses Sauer to show where Congress has in the past delegated tariff power to the president, other than perhaps TWEA. He struggles.

Trump's IEEPA tariff is not a tax, Solicitor General John Sauer argues. "It's a foreign-facing regulation of international commerce." Justices don't seem persuaded.

That we go into today's SCOTUS hearing assuming Trump already has 3 votes, and wondering how the justices could twist the law in his favor, is not a good thing. And Bessent coming to sit in the front row is a bit Sopranos-like: Nice court you got here. Too bad if something were to happen to it...

The K-shaped economy: *MCDONALD'S SEES CONSUMER PRESSURES CONTINUING IN 2026 *MCDONALD'S: LOWER-INCOME TRAFFIC FELL NEARLY DOUBLE DIGITS

Reminder to any president suggesting he might withhold funds from New York: the state send more tax revenue to the federal government than it gets back. So maybe we.....

Courts? Judges? The law? Not in Trump's America....

@treasurydept.bsky.social Secretary says the Supreme Court should declare Trump's IEEPA tariff policy legal because... it's one of Trump's "signature policies." Now, I'm not a lawyer but I don't think that is actually in the Constitution.

Okso, what if a deal to reopen the government is reached and Mike Johnson can't get vacationing House members back to Washington to vote on it because all the flights are canceled because air traffic controllers are staging a sick-out? Can't end the shutdown because of...the shutdown?

Basic primer on Trump cabinet interviews these days: Cut off anyone who starts to lecture on the shutdown being Democrats' fault. We know you think that. There is no news value in allowing a filibuster on that. Ask if Trump will promise no recission, no impoundment on any budget deal.

I get it, no one would turn down an interview with the president of the United States. But there has to be a point to it.

Hawk's nest: at least 3 #Fed bank presidents opposed this week's rate cut: Hammack and Logan (voters next year) and Schmid (dissented Wednesday). All speaking out today as blackout ends. Bostic, swing voter, supported cut but say now is preferrable to move slower. 10 other FOMC speakers next week.

*US HAS DECIDED ATTACK VENEZUELA MILITARY SITES: MIAMI HERALD *US STRIKES ON VENEZUELA COULD COME AT ANY MOMENT: MIAMI HERALD Just another normal Friday in America

*BESSENT SAYS CHINA TO BUY 12M METRIC TONS OF SOYBEANS THIS YEAR Doveryai no proveryai

Seems like Trump was successful at backing down on some tariffs, thus getting US/China relations back to something closer to where they were before he took office and started a trade war with the Chinese.

@federalreserve.gov Chair Powell will top the news for only about 2 hours today. 2pm: FOMC rate decision 2:30-3:30 pm: Powell news conference 4pm: META, MSFT, GOOG earnings cross. #Fed is yesterday's news.... (This take was not written by AI)

Yeah, this the kind of warning you don't want to get in the middle of one of the worst storms ever.... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

ADP now releasing a weekly report with a 4-week moving average of jobs created/lost from their payroll data. The first shows an average of 14,250, but based on the 4 weeks ending October 11. That's two weeks ago and also includes the final two weeks of September. So not clear how useful it will be.