Marble Falls        It’s not often all of us in the cheap seats get a ringside view of what big time negotiations look like, especially between nation states, but we’re getting an huge eyeful, courtesy of Trump and his tariff tantrums.  The whole world watched with some degree of horror as he huffed and …

            Rotterdam       Well, isn’t this interesting.  President Trump on his single-minded mission towards autocracy suddenly found out that there are limits.  Of course, the message he ended up hearing was not the howls of pain from American citizens and countries around the world as he drove the global economy into recession in his ill-advised and …