I haven't heard anything about that. But, I've heard rumblings of totally getting rid of the gov't being involved at all. If an airline wants too, they'd be a liberty to do so, but they wouldn't e forced.

Well, Only 5 Communists have to vote yes to turn on the gov't spigots. It's good they don't want too. It'll happen at the latest, 60 days out. For sure. Why? Because if it goes to 61 days, all the gov't positions that are closed right now can be fired permanently. The Communists know this. There would no longer be a Democrat Party if it came to that. But what a great way to shrink the gov't allowing for a smaller gov't to be funded by External Revenue, and not from Americans paying taxes. We'd have the Administration announce at that point, no income taxes and no capital gain taxes.. Heck we could see closing down the IRS & folding the FED into the Treasury with no power to print money any more. Dang, can you imagine what kind of country the young people would have to live in?? !! Freedom and Liberty

Well, the average length of time someone stay in their house is 7 years.. Yeah, averages are kind of tricky, but still.. 7 years. Does it really matter what the term of the loan is? Anyone know the average length people own their cars?

I wonder how the different levels on melatonin came about?

I think the 'First Sale' rule gets used a lot in the Import/Export world. I think it is a law allowing for the exporters to use the initial cost of a product as the basis for tariffs. The exporter can cut that base price to absorb a lot of the tariffs so their products stay competitive on the retail level. Exporters are involved in the mitigating of the tariff cost.

If the economy hadn't been subject to politicians spending more than tax receipts for decades., and people understood The FED is a Ponzi scheme. Gov't borrowing got 'monetized'! Money created out of thin air and lent to our gov't to spend/launder. The FED. Having a credit card with no limit is pretty cool. That's the FED. And, the real cool thing, is you and me get to pay taxes to pay for our borrowings. That's the only reason for the IRS. So anyway, with retail debt, it's always been about the monthly payment. That's still the case. So lets put blame where it should be. Voters ignoring the deficit spending and voting to keep borrowing.

Interesting little piece here.... https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

You see fang marks?

So how do we fund the government? Two main ways right? We can generate cash from taxes, or get it from External sources. So politicians and some bankers convened on Jekyl Island and figured out we can borrow tons and pay for it with those taxes. The citizens have been the collateral for these loans for a LONG time! Since 1913 maybe? Do you realize that every paper dollar in circulation is borrowed from the FED? Every one. They're Federal Reserve Notes. Notes are debt that needs to be paid off. WE BORROW EVERY PENNY WE USE FROM A PRIVATE CORPORATION!!! And we pay taxes to the friendly IRS. The interest to the bank!! Damn, pretty good gig if you can get it! So now, we're beginning to see the competing economic system being put in place.. You know we didn't borrow to bail out Argentina. We didn't borrow money to keep the WIC Program up and running. And now, we may see some of this External Money come to us in a check. And none is inflation. All of that money's already out there in the economy!! It ain't new borrowed money created out of thin air. No inflation!! This is good.

Definitely have to see government's scope pulled way back.. DOGE is still out there doing it's thing. The smaller the Federal outlay, the more chance of having tariffs & other gov't funds cover the bill. and not have to borrow anything from the corrupt FED. I think we've had outlays covered for 3 or 4 months now.. So far it seems tariffs were used to help Argentina, the WIC program for women in trouble and now, maybe a $2000 check for every citizen. None of these are inflationary either. Tariff money is already in circulation. It's just getting moved around the place. No tax on tips, overtime & social security (kind of) could morph into no property taxes, estate taxes or income taxes.. I think amazing things are going on under the covers.. We'll see what happens..

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Well, Not really.. Tariff money is money already in circulation.. It's just being moved around the world. Biden borrowed and the FED created his cash out of thin air. That's the definition of inflation. Always... It's a big difference. So Trump isn't creating any new debt. We can call the tariff cash External Revenue that can be used for different things. I think Trump used some to fund the WIC Program. I think it's a program for vulnerable mothers & women.. Someone out there was also saying the cash that went to Argentina was also tariff money, so that wasn't an inflationary situation either. I wonder if that money wasn't a loan. Trump likes to make money for our country. Does anyone know?

Gosh, the beauty of the free market!! Don't ya love it? There's another client out there ready to be discovered..