Category Archives: Business Trends

A Tariff Rebuke and Supreme Failure

While the Supreme Court’s Decision on Tariffs is in line with the outcome we anticipated what I didn’t expect are the rambling narratives, the unholy bias of congenitally embedded ignorance which is why I believe Supreme Court Justice may have reached the point where a detailed performance review may be required to determine if their scope of powers is in desperate need of review most particularly in the case where litigation is deliberately promulgated for the express purpose of using the Senior Court to affect policy. Frankly, it would have been a far better outcome had the Court decided not to hear the case. As it is what they’ve done is to scatter dysfunction to every corner of the constitutional compass. Unintended or as foray into a yet to be defined form of judicial brilliance the fact is they’ve caused a seismic rift in Foreign Policy, International Relations, the Nation’s Economic Standing, Financial Markets, Presidential Powers, Separation of Powers, Fiscal Order and I’m sure there are more but this schedule should do nicely, for now.

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USPS-Myths & Matters

In 1988, long before Mr. Trump was President, I was part of a team that worked on a review of the US Postal Service the focus, the short version, of which was to evaluate the overall efficiencies of the system and to make recommendations for their improvement. The process went on for a period of fourteen months and as the months accumulate it become increasingly clear that no amount of time or analysis was ever going to cure the inefficiencies of the Post Office and this was because the Postal Service, like mostly all government functions/operations, lacks one very simply overriding mandate: Financial, Performance and Operational Accountability. Government entities (each seemingly with an ever-increasing number of liberties) have become, ostensibly, self-mandated operations that rise to one and only one occasion: An ever-increasing annual budget, the one thing government does remarkably well.

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NFL and the Expanding Spectacle of Fashionability!

I believe we can all agree that Sport is a good thing for everyone; helps keep the body fit and the mind sharp. Professional sport, on the other hand, is an exhibition, a spectacle if you will and I sincerely doubt folks attend these events with the expectation of being bludgeoned by the improprieties of Athletes. It is more likely that professional sports fills the publics need or desire to escape, if only for a time, prevailing social or personal tensions.

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Facebook Trending IS the Trend

TIMF participates in FB as part of its messaging campaign; end of story. It has never been expected, by me or staff, that FB was, not unlike Google, anything more than what it is and likely more than what many might suspect.

It has long been the case, which few would suspect otherwise, that anyone with sufficient influence and money can “plant” a story, strategically place an operative, distort or assert a bias in any structure, enterprise, government bureaucracy and/or etc. So why then would anyone think it were any less likely that FB or any other electronic/online facility weren’t subject to bending or being bent in much the same way.

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Lawlessness in a Police State

LRADs (Long Range Acoustic Devices), MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles), Body Armor, M4-like Carbines and Tear-banned in combat- Gas; battlefield tested tech in the hands of your local police force. With no sympathies toward predatory opportunists intended clearly, as a component of public benefit (our body of laws), there is a place for the traditional police. However the policy of Federalizing local cops into Combat-ready squads has militarized the relationship into something akin to an occupying force.

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