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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2026-08-23 · 12:18 UTC

“Without a shift to #fiscal consolidation — higher taxes, [a] slower pace of government spending or outright declines in #government #spending as happened in the 1990s — the #buybacks will prove to be only temporary" #bonds #bondmarkets adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-... #USTreasuries

Top Links 1202 Bond market den...

#fiscal #government #spending #buybacks #bonds #bondmarkets

beSpacific @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 12:12 UTC

$1 Trillion #BlackBox. U.S. #military #budget is vast & opaque. Projects touted as #engineering marvels end up facing yrs of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched series 2 report on #Pentagon #spending. For “Other #Procurement, Air Force”: $32.6B. For “Research, Development, Test Evaluation, Defense-Wide”: $35.2B. For “supplies & associated support services” related to US Code Title 10 Section 3601 subsection(c)(3)(B) clauses (i) through (iv): a mere $650M. https://www.propublica.org/article/military-defense-spending-budget-series

#blackbox #military #budget #engineering #pentagon #spending

ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊 @[email protected] · 2026-08-21 · 09:33 UTC

Bessent’s buyback tactic "worked for roughly one day" before #yields went back up 👀

Concerns:

• Record $40 trillion US #debt
• Persistent gov't spending, like w/ #IranWar; budget deficit
• Consistently high #inflation
• Increased #oil #prices
• Americans must spend & borrow more
• AI-related corporate #spending financed via #borrowing (with uncertain returns)

#USA #USeconomy #economics #bonds #finance #NotGood
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Turmoil in Treasury bond yields sparks global worries

https://thehill.com/homenews/analysis/6042626-treasury-secretary-bessent-buyback/

#yields #debt #iranwar #inflation #oil #prices

Richard Michael Blaber @[email protected] · 2026-08-19 · 09:42 UTC

@2legged It is absolutely no surprise to me at all that #Labour, under both Starmer & #Burnham, has no plans for #redistribution of #income & #wealth, #reduction in income & wealth #inequality or increased #taxation of the #rich, whereas they DO have plans, some of which they've already implemented, for #cuts in #social #spending & #socialsecurity #benefits, especially for the #disabled.

#labour #burnham #redistribution #income #wealth #reduction

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2026-08-18 · 12:38 UTC

“Still, as bad as these stories are — and they’re plenty bad — it’s important to remember that none of them really compare to the biggest #spending #scandal of Ford’s tenure: the ballooning cost of the #OntarioLine #subway project.” #Toronto #Ontario #DougFord www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

Toronto’s Ontario Line now cos...

#spending #scandal #ontarioline #subway #toronto #ontario

News Beep @[email protected] · 2026-08-11 · 11:40 UTC

Pentagon boosts PAC-3 MSE and THAAD buys amid China missile threat

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Pentagon is preparing a dramatic course correction after years…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #armedforcestopics #army #breakingnews #China #Defense #Iran #Military #Pentagon #Politics #spending #warwithiran
https://www.newsbeep.com/687093/

#newsbeep #news #breakingnews #armedforcestopics #army #china

Mx Verda @[email protected] · 2026-08-06 · 08:38 UTC

How very remarkable that COVID-19 [sic: formatting] is why
'we are experiencing high demand',
while also
justifying no health restrictions anywhere because
'the pandemic is over' [sic].

So remarkable, in fact, that _upon it, I'm right now remarking!_

#PublicHealthPolicy #RichGetRicherWhilePoorGetBudgetCuts #HealthCareAccess #corona #Coronavirus #pandemic #PandemicResponse #health #HealthCare #infection #disease #UnitedKingdom #UK #UK_politics #UK111 #NHS #SaveOurNHS #covid #covid19 #SARS2 #SarsCoV2 #SARS_CoV2 #Infection #InfectionPrevention #InfectionControl #Public #PublicHealth #efficiency #ResourceEfficiency #Savings #budget #spending #Austerity #BudgetCuts

#unitedkingdom #uk #uk_politics #uk111 #nhs #saveournhs

David Scott Moyer @[email protected] · 2026-08-05 · 00:18 UTC

#Money does not buy #elections. #AIPAC is finding that out. a 9-1 #spending advantage, and their #candidate is losing by 16 points. #AbdulElSayed #HaleyStevens #Michigan #Senate #primary

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/politics/michigan-democratic-senate-primary-aipac.html

#primary #senate #michigan #haleystevens #abdulelsayed #candidate

Cynni's Blog @[email protected] · 2026-07-31 · 05:00 UTC

The fear of…

...not having enough... ...for Koa 🐾 I had this with Arwen as well, especially when things were hard, financially, and I was always scared to run out of food and snacks for my gall. And, due to me struggling with my MH, I spend too much money on things. I had a tiny bit of savings, as I want to replace my old and broken sound system for a working one... But, part of those savings have been spent now, on me, on my "need" to feel better, and... On getting things for Koa! […]

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/the-fear-of/

#depression #fear #mentalhealth #money #spending #worries

Follow GOLF @[email protected] · 2026-07-29 · 12:36 UTC

https://www.fogolf.com/1338484/auckland-woman-avoids-conviction-after-spending-21k-of-uncles-estate/ Auckland woman avoids conviction after spending $21k of uncle’s estate #20000 #21k #about #After #Auckland #avoids #booze #CLEAR #clubs #conviction #Estate #Flights #from #Golf #GolfNews #groceries #legal #more #obligations #of #says #spending #spent #than #TIME #uncles #Wasnt #Woman

#21k #about #after #auckland #avoids #booze

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-27 · 18:28 UTC

A quotation from Eisenhower

   Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
   The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
   This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Speech (1953-04-16), “The Chance for Peace,” American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, DC

More about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/56…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eisenhower #dwighteisenhower #budget #cost #defense #loss #nationaldefense #needy #priorities #spending #threat #tradeoff #war #waste #wastedeffort #weaponry