U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4%
Friday, March 6, 2026
Thursday, March 5, 2026
GOP-controlled US House and Senate both cede war power to the president, shirking their constitutional duty
Republicans claim to be against more wars, but they let them happen anyway.
House rejects war powers resolution to rein in Trump on Iran
... The vote was 212-219, with four Democrats joining Republicans to torpedo the measure and two Republicans joining Democrats in voting for the measure. The Senate shot down a similar measure on Wednesday. ...
War powers vote fails in the Senate, allowing Trump to continue Iran strikes
... The measure, brought by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rand Paul, R-Ky.,
faced steep odds and was largely symbolic even if it passed — Trump is
almost certain to veto any bill aimed at decreasing his authority to use
the military. The vote was 47-53, under the 50-vote threshold needed to
advance the resolution. ...
Speaking of crazies from Texas, Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw has lost his primary and ain't comin' back
Dan has public opinions about what are the worst features of contemporary Christianity, which I imagine have not endeared him to the anti-woke warriors of recent ascendancy.
Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico thinks the constitution's main features are bugs and imagines a past which never existed
James also believes in 6 genders and abortion rights for trannies, among other lunatic things.
Kristi Noem fired, replaced by a plumber lol
Trump says he will replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin
Now he's poaching from the thin Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. Brilliant. Just Brilliant.
Jobless claims continue at the four year lows in 2026, at 216k on average in February
Claims have averaged between 216k and 224k on an annual basis starting in 2022.
We haven't had a monthly average number at or above 300k since Jan 2022.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Private payrolls in Feb 2026 continue an anemic trend
The additions in the last year average just 26,500 per month.
The U.S. and Israel pulled the Iran war trigger when they did because intelligence revealed the opportunity to decapitate the regime in one fell swoop
Let's hope that this time they are successful in eliminating Iran's nuclear capabilities once and for all.
Last Monday [Feb 23], Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump
with a stunning tip: Iran's supreme leader and his top advisers were
all set to meet at one location in Tehran on Saturday morning [Feb 28].
They could all be killed in a single devastating airstrike, Netanyahu told Trump and his team, according to three sources briefed on the discussion. ... The Feb. 23 call — held from the White House Situation Room and unreported until now — was a pivotal moment that set the Iran war in motion. ...
On Friday at 3:38 p.m. EST, [Trump] gave the final order. Eleven hours later, bombs fell on Tehran, Khamenei was killed and the war had begun. ...
... According to a Financial Times report, almost all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras were secretly tapped. ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Keystone Kash strikes again
... The removals have cost the Justice Department and FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury. ...
Former Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein says he is worried about hidden secret leverage in the nearly $2 trillion shadow banking market after Blue Owl shut a fund and MFS collapsed
... “One has to worry about opaque assets where there’s illiquidity,” he told Bloomberg in a separate interview. “We’re getting close to the end of late stages of cycles on this and we’re due for a kind of a reckoning.” ...
China expected to expand submarine fleet to 80 by 2035, up to half nuclear-powered, from 60 now, more than half of which are diesel-powered
... Brookes cited a Pentagon projection that China’s submarine force will reach 80 vessels by 2035, about half of them nuclear-powered—up from the current estimated fleet of more than 60 subs, most of which are less capable diesel-powered vessels that have a shorter range of movement and must surface more frequently than nuclear-powered ones. This projection has appeared in past Pentagon annual reports on China’s military power. ...
Monday, March 2, 2026
COVID-19 infection peaks in the U.S. overall have been trending steadily less severe since Jan 2024, with the last two only in the high, not the very high, range
The regional data taken individually is more erratic.
Ruh-roh, sign of a top
Since 2020, the number of low- and moderate-income investors has
increased 2.7 times, or 167%, according to new research from the
BlackRock Foundation and Commonwealth.
In that time, factors including increased access to investment
information and additional cash through Covid-19 stimulus packages
helped those individuals to invest. ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026
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