Federal Judge William Alsup orders tens of thousands of federal employees fired by Mad King Ludwig rehired

 

 Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules 

... Alsup, a San Francisco-based appointee of President Bill Clinton, ordered the Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs departments to “immediately” offer all fired probationary employees their jobs back. The Office of Personnel Management, the judge said, had made an “unlawful” decision to terminate them. ... Alsup is the first federal judge to order the administration to broadly unwind the firing spree that has roiled the federal workforce during Trump’s first two months in office. ...

Gold makes 12th record high in 2025 at $2,977.36

 

Spot gold climbed 1.6% to $2,977.36 an ounce, its twelfth record peak to date in 2025.

Prices are up nearly 14% so far this year after a solid 27% gain in 2024. U.S. gold futures rose 1.4% to $2,989.

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Hey look! Root causes are back in the news again after a brief hiatus

 The root cause of the Ukraine war is Vladimir Putin and the root cause of the illegal immigration problem was Joe Biden.

 

 

House Hamas mole loves tunnels

 

 Rashida Tlaib becomes lone House lawmaker opposing cracking down on Mexican cartels' border tunnel system

The inflation figures in this story, as usual, are based on seasonally adjusted measures

 

Wholesale price measure was flat in February, compared with expected increase

 

... no gain for the month after jumping an upwardly revised 0.6% in January, seasonally adjusted figures showed. ...

It's the same story with core wholesale prices for January 2025, not seasonally adjusted, also revised upward today one month later

 The monthly rise in core wholesale prices in January 2025 of 0.5% was revised up to 0.7% today, and the year over year increase was revised up to 3.8% from 3.6%.

Inflation in January 2025 was worse than previously reported, and probably was in February too as reported today, but we'll have to see, as long, anyway, as Ludwig doesn't manage to blow us all up in the meantime.

 

Wholesale prices not seasonally adjusted rose 3.7% year over year in January 2025, not the 3.5% reported last month

 The month over month change in wholesale prices was also revised up today, from 0.7% for January to 0.9%.

 

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, tariffs are tax cuts

 

Marco Rubio and his fellow barbarians are shredding and burning USAID classified documents and personnel records

 

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees and outside groups are fighting an order from the agency’s leadership to shred and burn its classified documents as well as personnel records.

An email obtained by The Hill sent by USAID’s acting executive secretary instructs remaining employees at the dismantled agencies to “shred as many documents as possible first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.” ...

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In February 2025 the average cost of electricity is 31.6% higher than it was 2016-2020

 The average price per kWhr was $0.136 for the five years 2016-2020.

 

 

In February 2025 piped utility gas to heat your home, heat your water, and cook with costs 55.7% more than it did on average 2016-2020

 The average price 2016-2020 was $1.0174 per therm.

 

 

In February 2025 gasoline costs 34.8% more than the average 2016-2020

The average price 2016-2020 was $2.419/gallon.

 

Beef, breakfast, and bliss just went up again: A dozen basic foods posting new all time high average prices in February 2025 according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank

Choice chuck roast $8.104/lb

Ground chuck $5.744

All uncooked ground beef $5.96

All uncooked beef roasts $7.995

Round roast $7.49

Round steak $8.485

 

Eggs $5.897/dozen

Frozen orange juice $4.492/12oz

Coffee $7.246

White Sugar $1.011

 

Table wine $14.087/liter

Beer $1.819/pint

 

 

Ohio shoulda said pwease

 

Local projects like Milliken Road, Wright-Patt sidelined as U.S. House votes to avoid shutdown

Even as Ohio Republicans stuck with President Donald Trump and voted on Tuesday to approve a six-month government funding bill in the U.S. House, that decision came with a price — as the GOP plan denied federal funding for a variety of local projects across the state. ...

 

It's catching on

 

Mad King Trump's Tariff Disaster

Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect

 

 

‘At Risk Of My Job’: CNBC Reporter Sounds Alarm On 'Insane' Donald Trump Move

 

What they mean is losing your money is part of the game

 

‘Volatility is part of the game’: What financial advisors are telling investors about market turmoil

Core cpi inflation was 3.117% year over year in February 2025, still 58.6% worse than the average 2017-2020

 We've been stuck in this range for 8 months.

The worst inflation in decades first fell to 3.1% in July 2024. 

We're still there.

 

 

The purchasing power of the US dollar fell again in February 2025: The dollar now buys 26.5% less than it did 10 years ago

The monthly decline in February was another -0.63%.

The year over year decline in February was -2.795%.

That's your headline inflation number today.

 

 

 

 

I wrote to my Congressman John Moolenaar last week about today's continuing resolution vote

 

 He wrote back today, today!, explaining his February 25th vote for the budget framework, about which I asked nothing, mentioned nothing.

But what I did ask about went entirely unaddressed.

This is called being without representation.

What a moron.

The White House says Ludwig's tariffs are a tax cut for the American people