Guns & Gold: What’s wrong with Sudan?

Fox News recently reported that President Trump is sending 200 troops to Nigeria to protect Christians who are being persecuted there. Fox has also reported Christians being killed in Sudan. So, why isn’t President Trump sending troops to Sudan as well?

Memoirs of a Speculator: Asking Google Gemini about the biggest individual stock loss of my short life (QVC Group)

We are currently in the midst of an artificial intelligence arms race. Chat GPT already has a pay wall. Do you think Google Gemini or other AI systems are going to provide this type of information for free forever? If you’re a retail speculator (like me) you should probably be setting aside some time to ask an AI platform about the stocks that make up your portfolio… It’s not going to be free forever…

Mandate Annual Itemized Financial Reports: Why More Fiscal Transparency is Needed in Government & Why Trump, Musk, & DOGE Will NOT Support It

Trump, Musk, and DOGE are rapidly downsizing government. But are these billionaires looking out for the interests of the American people or gutting government to enrich themselves?

Government Problems in A Nutshell

Some of the pervasive systemic problems with this nation’s bureaucracy include the dispersion of distance, Parkinson’s Law (Parkinson, 1980), The Peter Principle (Peter et al., 1969) prospective budgets (Finkler et al., 2017), penalties for under-spending your funding, and other top-down interventionist tendencies that are prevalent in many large organizations.

What Can DOGE Do For You? – career civil servant types, anti-humanitarian budget cuts, & why wasteful government spending is likely to continue

Government needs transparency and people who do the right thing. Resilient and rational government employees represent the best of our government’s civil servants. But three other types of government workers are more common: riders, risers, and rescuers or wannabe humanitarians. The current executive branch appears to be targeting left-leaning humanitarian or rescuer types in order to (1) consolidate power and (2) cut spending. But, would mandatory annual itemized financial reports do the job for them?