Saturday, April 5, 2025

Links 4/5/2025

Trump’s Tariffs Are Extremely Dumb, Just Not For The Reasons You Might Think

The massive Trump tariffs are a con on a global scale. Trump is not rejecting the corporate trade model. He’s weaponizing it.

Trump’s Non-Cooperative Game

Game theorists do not take a kind view of how Trump is going about things.

Coffee Break: The Powell Memo Kills American Science, Driving While Nonwhite Is Hazardous, and Science Can Recover but It Will Take Patience and Persistence.

Can medical science recover from the Powell memo and Project 2025 via slow science?

Private Equity Shares Tank Based on Trump Tariffs; Private Equity and Credit Crises Coming?

How the Trump tariffs will whack private equity, and even more so, investors like CalPERS and other public pension funds.

Links 4/4/2025

Why Does the US Want Everyone’s Biometric Data (Regardless of Who Is in the White House)?

And can it be trusted with it? (rhetorical question)

Medicare Advantage Is Covering More and More Americans − Some Because They Don’t Get to Choose

Another layer of the ongoing campaign to get more Americans to use private and generally inferior Medicare Advantage over Traditional Medicare

Another Trump Big Lie: “Reciprocal Tariffs”

Further discussion of the delustions and misrepresentations of the Trump tariffs.

Trump Deploys His Tariff Wrecking Ball; How Much Will the US Suffer Along with Most of the Rest of the World?

The latest Trump tariffs kick up the destructiveness of his administration up to a whole new level.

Links 4/3/2025

Iran Lacks the Leverage For a Fair Deal With the US

The US seems intent on bludgeoning Iran into a very unfavorable agreement.

Another “Covid Brain” Cognitive Impairment: Checklists?

Are difficulties with mental checklist another manifestation of “Covid brain”?

What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?

Tech billionaires are embedding themselves in U.S. economic systems while experimenting with new ways to manage their fortunes

New Gallup Poll Finds Health Care Affordability Falling: One-Third Cannot Afford Care

More bad, if predictable, news on the US health care front.