Congress was warned well ahead of time about how the lack of regulation and transparency would lead to a great crash when many big institutions were all making the same bets and making the same assumptions. Congress didn’t listen. They listened to the Ayn Rand follower Alan Greenspan instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ25uZtey34
What Robert E. Lee Really Thought of Grant — And Why It Terrified the Confederacy. Pretty good AI vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnNCs-DR-IE
Some economists act like different factors of the economy are interchangeable when really they are complements.
The blocking of the Strait limited the supply of multiple inputs, and it will take time to get logistics and production back to normal. The downstream economic impacts of the blockade are not over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkxIhUk2Sig
Reading Trump’s Iran Deal So You Don’t Have To, with Mark Dubowitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dha2cy6jF1I
Trump argues that the frozen assets are Iran’s money, so they should be given back at some time anyways. Although, he completely rejected when Obama gave back money that the US rightfully owed Iran in a deal that delayed Iran’s nuclear program without war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdqmC3vyRJg
Officially, North Korea no longer seeks unification with the south. Trump blew his opportunity in his first term to get closer relations with North Korea, despite holding hands for the cameras. North Korea has deeply allied with Russia, giving North Korea advanced military technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxntzId1uM
Foreign leaders are starting to just smile and nod and ignore Trump. They know he is a fool who can’t be trusted. If a more competent leader is elected next, foreign leaders will be like, this already happened, the US reelected Trump, we don’t trust the American people to keep elected a competent and decent leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygQshjQHnrM
Debunking Science Influencers’ Claims on IQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLp4ja9n8Y
Rubio compares the audaciousness of American colonists rebelling against the British empire and creating the world’s first modern democracy, and the US landing on the moon…to UFC creating a successful fighting company.
Rubio knows this is nonsense. He is lying for Trump. Rubio used to be a respectful Senator, now he drinks Trump’s fluids from both sides every day on national television.
Don’t get me wrong, UFC is cool and I respect the sport and business that they built, but the audacity of creating the world’s first modern democracy, rebelling against the greatest empire on Earth, and landing on the moon…are incomparable to creating a cool sports fighting business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65h0PcTSWNE
Trump acknowledges that Israel has been blowing up apartment complexes to kill some Hezbollah members when there are a lot of other people in those apartments who are not Hezbollah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFa4Zp3SNU