Why don't billionaires stand up to Trump? What is the point of having FU money if you are afraid to stand up to a man with a comb over?

@cnbc.com is a terrible place for investment advice. Most of the hosts are right wing Trump synchophants. Their average age of their audience is over 90. There is an opportunity for a financial platform to supplant them in the future. Perhaps this year.

Trump's move on Venezuela is to get us to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein. Everything Trump does is to prevent the Epstein files from being revealed.

Math is the science of patterns. AI hasn't been able to decipher complex variables. Until it does, AI is not ready for prime time. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

Will someone please tell Trump there is no such thing as an insane asylum.

My prediction for 2026 is Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg will receive a bailout from Trump after spending billions on AI. After taxpayers bail them out, they will reward themselves with big bonuses and rant about socialism.

As a young man, I aspired to be wealthy because I could then control who I wanted to hang out with. I can't figure out why Bezos and Zuckerberg suck up to Trump. What's the point of being a billionaire if you have to bow to a fool like Trump.

I spent Christmas surrounded by a bunch of rich people claiming that anyone who doesn't make it is either lazy or stupid. I noted that most of them got rich via inheritance. These are the people Trump and the GOP say have your interests.

The Kennedy Center Honors drew its smallest audience ever this year. The Donald Trump-hosted ceremony averaged an estimated 2.65 million viewers, a large drop from the 4.1 million viewers in 2024. The CBS ceremony saw a 35% drop in ratings, The Independent reports.

Justice no longer has meaning. Before Trump, Justice meant paying for wrong deeds committed against the citizenry. Now it only applies to retribution.

Youngkin may not be ready to tell, but I'm more than ready not to care. apnews.com/article/youn...

When someone says the government is responsible for a problem, immediately ask him what it will take to fix it. Looking at the government as some amorphous thing is how we elect people like Trump. Every conversation about the government is a conversation about us.

The Supreme Court is a joke...

The US is a class system that favors the rich. We tell everyone except the wealthy to pick yourself up by your own bootstraps. By contrast, we bail out the rich when they fail. The problem is we use the resources of the non-rich to do this.

What is the secret to a successful financial trader? Managing risk. What is managing risk? Accepting failure, learning from it and moving on. Everyone must be willing to be told no, but it must never prevent us from achieving our goals.

Thinking of defrauding people? Go ahead. Trump has your back. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

When a person hands the gas station clerk a $10 bill and says, "Ten dollars on pump two," Trump says that you will get 5 gallons of gasoline. Is that true?

Putin is a war criminal.

Thomas Friedman compares Trump to Neville Chamberlain in the NYT today. I've been saying that for years. I wouldn't be surprised to hear Trump refer to Putin as "Herr Putin" in the future.

Zohran Mamdani didn't recieve an endorsement from Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority leader. Mamdani is the future of the democratic party. Schumer should announce retirement.

With Powell leaving the Fed in the spring and Trump's bullying of the members, they are likely going cut rates at the next meeting. That is a mistake because inflation is going down, but it isn't under control. If inflation isn't tamed, we run the risk of it spiraling out of control.

When Trump says costs are down, he is lying. The inflation number must take in account costs that have risen at any time before. Costs are rising and we know it each time we swipe our debit card at a store.

The WH press corp should unite in response to Trump calling the ABC reporter, "Piggy." They won't because they have not been relevant for twenty years.

I'm tiring of Fareed Zakaria. His world view and criticism of democrats is informed by the Briitish occupation of his birthland. Only a person who grew up in an apartheid culture could see any merit is an autocrat like Trump.

In most of the world, healthcare is a right. In the US, it's a privilege. The top 10% will always have affordable care. The bottom 10% will never have it. The rest hope that a cancer diagnosis require push them into bankruptcy. We are not great folks.

It's no suprise that Trump heaps praise on the murderer of Khashoggi. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

When Trump and his idiot followers tell you buyers don't pay tariffs, remember this. eBay provides warnings on all imported goods, telling buyers they will be required to pay the import duty on all goods purchased outside the US.

Tesla is down $30 today. That trillion dollar salary bonus incentive the Tesla board handed Elon Musk has the stock moving in the wrong direction.

I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome. I believe that it is important to tell the truth. Our constructs are centered around truth telling lest we move into complete chaos. Every time Trump lies, I shake in fear that others will copy him and engage in lying as a way of life.

You can't lie to people about what is happening in the economy. Trump should remember Herbert Hoover saying, "There's a chicken in every pot." It cost Hoover his job. We know better when Trump says prices are falling.

Fifty years ago, as an actuary, I observed a woman painting dots on dominoes in a toy factory. That job no longer exists because of efficiency. Not trade deficits as Trump would have us believe. His emergency rationale for tariffs is incorrect.

40% of the SNAP beneficiaries are under the age of 18. Cutting off SNAP benefits reflects who we are as a nation. We don't care about children. We idolize the rich and loathe ourselves.

There is no positive aspect of the enslavement of a person other than a focus on its ending. Trump wanting to change the focus of the African-American history museum is inane. Should we then focus on the positive aspects of the Holocaust? Wait! There were none.

In case anyone is confused with the definition of irony, it's Trump referring to former president Biden as, "Sleepy Joe Biden."

IQ tests are no longer necessary. All you have to do is ask, "Did Trump win the 2020 election?" If the answer is yes, then you are talking to an idiot.

The Supreme Court invalidated Biden's student loan cancellation saying the President cannot use "ambiguous language to justify transformative powers." Isn't that what Trump is doing with the use of tariffs?

California used to elect Republican governors (remember Reagan?) until Pete Wilson developed aggressive immigration policies. It's been Democratic ever since. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

The billionaires donating to Cuomo is evidence they care nothing about the problems of ordinary citizens. Cuomo has no chance of winning. Only desperation would motivate Bloomberg to give him a million dollars.

Trump's Russian sanctions have the opposite effect. The sanctions raise the price of oil which prolongs the war since Russia is financing the war costs by selling oil.

Trump is an idiot. That's all.

If the US can't keep drugs out of prison, why does Trump think that killing people aboard a Venezualan ship will break the illegal drug supply chain? Or is this too a move to get us to stop thinking about Epstein?

Have you ever searched for the cheapest MRI? No. Because you don't care as long as it's covered. And that is what is wrong with our medical system. The cost rises more than inflation because it is a flawed economic system. Time for medicare for all...

Trump is being out manuevered by both Putin and Xi. Trump's judges people by how they think of him. Trump really believes these two people respect him.

Trump is in favor of buying Argentine beef to bring down the cost of beef and calls NYC mayoral candidate's idea of government grocery stores socialism. Anybody else see the irony. abcnews.go.com/amp/Business...

If the price of oil drops another $10 a barrel to about $45, the Ukrainian war will end because Putin will no longer be able to afford to wage it. That is why I am in currently in favor of "drill baby drill."

So much for Trump's "America First." US farmers and seniors, Argentina is ahead of you in line. www.axios.com/2025/10/20/u...

I don't care that the investigation of Tom Homan has been closed. The Trump DOJ would never have proceeded to bring him to justice. Where is the $50,000 he took? Homan will have his reckoning with the law in due time.

This is the building ICE raided in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago. It is a lakefront 208 unit property. Could it be that the real motive of the raid was to speed up a repurpose of the building?