From NBC News.
I know the Trump Administration doesn’t care about ordinary people dying from malnutrition, lack of access to health care, plane crashes, and radiation exposure, but I would’ve thought they cared about the interests of agribusiness, and — at least cynically — about egg prices. But apparently not.
Speaking of which:
Because the avian flu originated in China years ago, they no doubt have already developed effective vaccines at a much lower cost than could the USDA. So, the USDA should just contact the CCP and arrange the purchase and importation of the prevention. I’m sure the vaccine could get a tariff exemption.
Costco price online (higher than at the store) delivered by Instacart
Kirkland Signature Eggs, Large, 24-count
Item: 637598
Details
Grade AA; 100% Vegetarian Feed; Cage-Free; Certified Humane.
$9.93
It’s still higher than $2.50 per dozen, but certainly not $8.00 per dozen.
So Bruce has just discovered bulk pricing! Congratulations, buddy! It’s a big day for you!
There’s only two possibilities: breathtakingly ignorant, or constantly intentionally misrepresenting facts. Or both.
Small victories – Lina Khan’s legacy at the FTC will live in, for now:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/18/trump-corporate-merger-guidelines-biden.html
Vance is a fan of anti-trust enforcement, so maybe this is his influence. We’ll see how long this lasts, given Trump’s lack of actual principles and openness to “persuasion”.
So Elon Musk has claimed that tens of millions of Social Security beneficiaries are dead. Trump’s White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has also said this to the press corps. And then Trump himself has made the claim that tens of millions of Social Security beneficiaries are dead.
This is the most fabulous news ever. If 20 million of the current 70 million beneficiaries are dead, that means the Social Security budget can be reduced by 25% to 30% instantly by removing the fraudulent beneficiaries. That means that Musk and Trump have single-handedly solved one of the most intractable budget problems, the insolvency of the Social Security Trust Fund in 2035, which would have required 25% benefit cuts. Those cuts are no longer necessary. Social Security is on solid ground for the next century. Senior citizens should be overjoyed. Republican senators and congressmen should be trumpeting their great victory as the saviors of Social Security. But …
What, even the Republicans think he is lying?
It’s interesting that Javier Melei in Argentina is facing criminal charges and impeachment for his involvement in a crypto coin pump and dump scheme.
Yet in the US, there is dead silence about Trump doing the exact same thing with his $TRUMP coin and even Melinia getting in on the grift with her $MELINIA coin. In the US, it seems, we can’t even clear the low bar of Argentine corruption.
Even more dangerous than this petty corruption, Trump seems intent on letting the techbros take over the SEC and legalize all sorts of crypto scams that could involve trillions of dollars and be a real threat to the economy.
Crypto scam — is that like redundant repetition?
Okay, today we have newly confirmed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick saying that Trump’s plan is to abolish the IRS and instead “let all outsiders pay”, presumably meaning tariffs.
So, we get about $2.5 trillion from income taxes. We have about $3.8 trillion in annual imports. What tariff rate would be required to replace the $2.5 trillion of income taxes? You do the math. (And this ignores the secondary effects of US consumers avoiding import tariffs. It also ignores the fact that “outsiders” don’t pay tariffs.)
These folks are completely mad. Lutnick is a billionaire. It just goes to show just because you are rich, it doesn’t mean you are smart. Applies to Musk, as well.