New Orleans “Houston, we have a problem.” Let me rephrase that…we have lots of problems. That’s just my opinion though. The president of the United States has a different take… …when Trump answered a question about whether he was motivated by the financial situation of Americans to make a deal to end the …
Category: Inflation
War’s Hitting Lower Waged Workers Worse
Pearl River 2022 wasn’t so long ago that we can’t remember it. The oil shock that brutalized the world economy then came from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The reverberations were everywhere, but the impact on Europe was the worse, because they relied on Russian imported oil. While they weaned off, they were basically financing …
US Billionaire Boom
Pearl River The rigged deck of the Trump’s big bad budget bill was the terrible tradeoff that will force the poor to subsidize the rich by extending and enlarging their tax breaks and favored treatments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the galloping growth in the list of billionaires. Sure, we are afflicted …


