Why You Shouldn’t Trust Confident People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_QK4stCJU&t=828s

The Economy

The reason oil is so cheap right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzyYPJEbVU

Why Voters Didn’t Buy the ‘Biden Boom’

Google Maps Lawsuit

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p_PGbz9jdtA

Guess how much this safety net cost?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7dfsjM7xd-w

Top 10 Worst Cheats to Have Ever Lived

TELO Releases Cancer Suppressing Results

Telomir Pharmaceuticals

 
https://scr.zacks.com/news/news-details/2025/TELO-Releases-Cancer-Suppressing-Results/default.aspx

I am not making a stock recommendation.  This kind of drug, if it works, would be a miracle.  

I have made a prediction that we would find ways to extend human lifespan.  My prediction might be wrong, but there is research going on in this area.

Why AA Batteries Still Suck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKYF1CXZPng

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The problem is that many devices, like remote controls, use AAA batteries that have a third of the power and cost as much.  Some of these devices could have easily used the more powerful AA batteries.

Wawa (company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawa_(company)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veau0eZCT8Q

Wawa has opened a few convenience stores in Indiana, near big cities.  They advertise so much that even my aunt in a small town wants to try them.  They advertise sandwiches, hamburgers, and pizza.   

I am leery of buying food from a gas station.  It might be interesting to try their pizza.

Axios

Zoom in: The risk in this particular moment is that Fed independence is under pressure while the full potential impact of tariffs has not been felt yet, which could leave monetary policy "really behind the curve," Natalucci says.

• The U.S. is "thriving because it's an open economy. It's a rules-based economy," he adds. If the rules are rewritten, it could be a catalyst for investors to continue moving away from dollar-denominated assets.

Yes, but: Not only is the U.S. not an emerging market, but American leadership still has the kind of credibility that emerging markets leaders often lack, Hsu notes.

• Trump has "a lot of willing believers," including market participants who felt economic data gathering needed reforms to make it more accurate.

What we're watching: "The market will price (any) policy mistake," Natalucci says. For now the bond market has been relatively stable since April.

• But if the Fed were to cut rates amid hot inflation, bond investors could react negatively, pushing up yields and making debt more expensive.
• That could put pressure on the administration, which has already proven that it reacts when the bond market panics.

The White House responded to an Axios request for comment on these parallels via email.

• "There is no virtue in defending a broken status quo and upholding elite-approved America Last policies that have eroded our industrial base and decimated American communities," White House spokesman Kush Desai writes, pointing to efforts to lower inflation and strike trade deals.
• "Ivory tower analyses that are completely disconnected from day-to-day reality for working class Americans aren't going to change these facts."

I Got a Juicer

This video went viral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS2IJke7P3Y

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RQQCJq-90S4

I avoid sugary drinks, but the videos are interesting.  I would rather eat oranges.

Orange juice at Walmart, depending upon the size, varies from $2.50 to $8.00.  It is a little more expensive at Kroger.

Tested 100s of LEDs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUeHu_7JnA&t=425s

I  have bought cheap LED bulbs but they don't last.  

CO2 and the Endangerment Finding

Will Tariffs Sink the Economy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA-2O8pGCrI&t=1761s

Annual finance for climate action surpasses USD 1 trillion, but far from levels needed to avoid devastating future losses - CPI

https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/press-release/annual-finance-for-climate-action-surpasses-usd-1-trillion-but-far-from-levels-needed-to-avoid-devastating-future-losses/

According to Google:

Annual global climate finance flows reached almost $1.3 trillion in 2021/2022, doubling from 2019/2020 levels. However, this represents only about 1% of global GDP, and experts estimate that much larger investments are needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

This tiny ocean rock is worth TRILLIONS?!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3jHDvo_3_1M

Kroger announces 60 closures. Which grocery stores will close?

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2025/06/20/kroger-announces-60-store-closures-why-are-kroger-stores-closing-indiana-locations-2026/84290324007/

Elon Musk is right: America’s spending is out of control

https://thespectator.com/topic/elon-musk-right-america-spending-control-big-beautiful-bill/ 

Largest Economies in the World | 1600-2024

This is interesting.

$200 billion annually spent to store fed creating too much money

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/27/wesbury_were_paying_private_banks_200_billion_per_year_to_hold_all_the_cash_the_fed_printed.html

Cost of Sending things to Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGGtZtCKy_Y&t=187s

Chinese not spending

https://youtu.be/u1y0T3R7t3I?si=Qgscc5bpC6yFI5k3

BUNK! Why Most of Robert Reich’s Ideas Are Just Wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoACN6M7YvU

America’s Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out From Under Us

America's Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out From Under Us

"We were taught in Economics 101 that countries could not for long sustain large, ever-growing trade deficits. At a point, so it was claimed, the spree of the consumption-happy nation would be braked by currency-rate adjustments and by the unwillingness of creditor countries to accept an endless flow of IOUs from the big spenders. And that's the way it has indeed worked for the rest of the world, as we can see by the abrupt shutoffs of credit that many profligate nations have suffered in recent decades. The U.S., however, enjoys special status. In effect, we can behave today as we wish because our past financial behavior was so exemplary—and because we are so rich. Neither our capacity nor our intention to pay is questioned, and we continue to have a mountain of desirable assets to trade for consumables. 

In other words, our national credit card allows us to charge truly breathtaking amounts. But that card's credit line is not limitless. The time to halt this trading of assets for consumables is now..."

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/growing.pdf

America’s Silent Inheritance: The Hidden $150 Trillion

I am hearing radio advertisements for this.  Maybe they are trying to get people to invest.  Maybe it is a scam.

I don't know how accurate this is.  If there were natural resources that could be used to pay off the National Debt, then that would be a good thing.

'"Trump's Supreme Court overturned the Chevron Doctrine," Rickards says. "It essentially gave so-called government experts 'kill shot' power… But now—for the first time in half a century—we can go get [these resources]!"

What's Actually Hidden?

According to Rickards, the "silent inheritance" includes an enormous supply of strategic materials—copper, lithium, silver, rare earths—buried beneath government-controlled land across the western United States.

"We have all these essential materials right under our feet," says Rickards. "Incredibly, insanely, however, the United States is the only nation in the world that locks them up."

The sheer value is hard to fathom:

"It's enough to pay off the national debt four-times over… enough to take a 100% stake in every company listed on the NASDAQ… and buy every private home in the United States."'

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/16/3062778/0/en/America-s-Silent-Inheritance-The-Hidden-150-Trillion-Asset-No-One-Told-You-About.html

What If China Wins the Trade War?

'The Trump administration believes that it has the upper hand in this fight. "We export one-fifth to them of what they export to us," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently remarked, "so that is a losing hand for them." That view has things backwards. The fact that the American economy is hooked on Chinese goods is a massive weakness for the U.S., not an advantage. For many categories of goods, China is not only America's top supplier but also the world's dominant supplier, meaning that the U.S. can't simply get them from other countries. According to data gathered by Jason Miller, a professor at Michigan State University who specializes in supply-chain management, China produces more than 70 percent of the world's lithium-ion batteries, air conditioners, and cookware; more than 80 percent of the world's smartphones, kitchen appliances, and toys; and about 90 percent of the world's solar panels and processed rare earth minerals, the latter of which are crucial inputs to cars, phones, and several key military technologies.

Pivoting to producing these goods at home would take years, if not decades: It would involve forming new companies, building new factories, creating supply chains from scratch, and training fleets of workers. For it to happen at all, companies would have to be confident that the tariffs would be in place for the long term. China, meanwhile, is only heavily dependent on the U.S. for a small fraction of its imports, and most of those items, such as soybeans and sorghum, can be imported from elsewhere.

Chinese businesses will be hurt by losing access to the American market, but that is an easier problem to solve. China can redirect some of its exports to countries in Europe and East Asia, whose citizens also need phones, toys, and toasters. Beijing could also give money to its own citizens to create more demand for its products at home and provide subsidies to its businesses to help them remain solvent. This asymmetry gives China what the economist Adam Posen calls "escalation dominance": the ability to inflict disproportionate harm on its economic enemy.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/china-trump-trade-war/682524/

Trump Just Took Over the World

I'm sure that this is controversial.

Helicopters Just Don't Fall From the Sky

Why you should sign up for a My Social Security Account Now

Why You Should Sign Up for a My Social Security Account Now.

On April 1st, the government will increase its requirements for proving your identity for any changes to Social Security. In some cases, you may have to go to your local Social Security office.

They claim that this is not a problem if you have a My Social Security account. I believe it is best to create the account now so you won't have to worry about it later. With a My Social Security account, you can access your Social Security benefits online. Signing up took me about 25 minutes.

https://secure.ssa.gov/RIL/SiView.action

Part of this process involves creating an account with login.gov. They asked me to set up two-factor authentication, which was no problem. The catch is that they also recommend downloading an authentication app on my phone as an additional way to verify my identity. I tried this, but I had no idea how the app works, so I skipped this step.

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Best wishes,

John Coffey

http://www.entertainmentjourney.com