Here is what the venerable old sage C Thomas Printer wrote on Feb. 2, 2025 regarding the 25% tariffs on Canada and the impact to the auto industry. “Legacy automakers have had 25 years of factory production, free trade agreements, and in 25 days decades of capital planning go out the window. If you think …
Bygone Relics
In the movie Casino there is a scene where the house is catching a couple of cheaters at the blackjack tables. They call security, they notify everyone to be in their places, and then they bring out a birthday cake and start singing. This is at an adjacent table, and everyone turns and looks at …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
I’d like to begin by reading a piece of dialogue between Capt. Louis Renault and Rick Blaine. “What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca.” “My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. “The waters. What waters? We’re in a desert.” “I was misinformed.” I am beginning to wonder if Don Trump is going …
“Politicians, old buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” Noah Cross in Chinatown The death of Jimmy Carter at 100 years old this week reminds me of what Noah Cross said, the evil rich villain played by John Houston, said to J.J Gettes while eating fish with the heads still on. …
We start a fresh, anew if you will. New Year they say. Well, I don’t think much has changed. What I do know though is that China has hacked into our Treasury Department. That’s right. They hacked in, snooped around, and then left. American authorities are not happy. Some so this is payback for supporting …