This week’s Bygone Relics will be much like the news, all over the place. In last week’s LBLF we briefly hinted at the coming federal job cuts. Up to 200,000 federal jobs are to be cut and that is just the start. If we go to dailyjobcuts.com we can see just how extensive this layoff …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 We check in on part of the Fox news crew joining positions of power in the government. Thomas Homan, the deportation expert and former Fox news contributor, made news this week. This from Dan Mangan at CNBC, “President Donald Trump’s border czar implicitly warned New York Mayor Eric Adams during …
The new Secretary of Defense has changed the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg. Ice cream eating Joe Biden changed the name in 2023 due to Bragg being named after a confederate general named Braxton Bragg, but the new one will be named after Roland Bragg a World War II paratrooper from Maine. …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 So I set out today with a goal of making the baseball hall of fame as a .333 hitter. If you get a hit on 1 of 3 at bats in the major leagues you will be a hall of famer. Let’s shoot for the hall of fame today shall …
So, I am a little confused by the Trump fan boys that are saying that Trump sure showed them, Canada and Mexico bent the knee, and Trump is the master. Aren’t the tariffs supposed to be on? How are we doing away with the income tax if the tariffs got taken off? I knew Canada’s …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 It has been an eventful first two weeks of Don’s new America. We have had air traffic controllers being offered buyouts of their contracts, two plane crashes in the next few days, and now the FAA main system is down. This according to the New York Times’ Mike Ives, “The …
I was thinking that there might be some time to analyze Trump’s moves and see where his team is going before having to wildly speculate about Trump’s black swans. I have said before that I think he is walking into a stacked deck against him. I am also not confident in his ability to maneuver …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 I recently read that Steph Curry, one of the greatest shooters in NBA history, struggled through his worst shooting night of his career. He is injured, getting older, and it is hard for him to maintain the form that he once possessed so effortlessly. He is having to realize that …
The proverb ”keep your friends close but your enemies closer” comes from the Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli but is also attributed to Sun Tzu. As Don Trump begins his second term, I can’t believe how chummy he is with his former enemies. His new frenemies include Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Don …
Looking Backwards … LB #1 Unemployment when Joe Biden took was over 6.4% now it is 4.1%. The S&P 500 was around 3,800 and now it is 6,000 so an increase of about 55%. The war in Afghanistan is over. Peace has been brokered in Gaza. Inflation, as we know, acts with a lag to …