by Daniel Brouse May 10, 2025 “‘Too Late’ Jerome Powell is a FOOL, who doesn’t have a clue. Other than that, I like him very much! Oil and Energy way down, almost all costs (groceries and ‘eggs’) down, virtually NO INFLATION, Tariff Money Pouring Into the U.S. — THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF ‘TOO LATE!’ ENJOY!”— […]
Category Archives: Environment
Misleading Claims on Gas Prices, Inflation, and the Economy: A Closer Look at the Facts
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Weak La Niña Fades Quickly, Pointing to Deeper Climate Disruptions
by Daniel Brouse May 10, 2025 The lingering effects of this past winter’s La Niña are rapidly diminishing, with the tropical Pacific climate now settling into ENSO-neutral conditions. Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the central equatorial Pacific are currently only slightly below average, and key atmospheric indicators—such as trade winds and convection patterns—still show faint […]
Climate Denial and Disaster Capitalism: How $1.4 Billion in Hurricane Helene Aid Exposes the Cost of Ignoring Science
by Daniel Brouse May 6, 2025 The $1.4 billion in federal grants allocated to North Carolina for Hurricane Helene recovery is a textbook example of what’s wrong with President Trump’s economic and environmental legacy. These funds, distributed through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program, are […]
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Bozo the Rodeo Clown and the Accidental Hits: Music, Message, and the Madness of Our Times
By Daniel Brouse May 6, 2025 The music business remains one of the strangest combinations of art, science, and economics. It’s a world where emotional resonance trumps logic, and where market forces, social movements, and sheer randomness collide to define success. I should know—I put the first record company on the internet back in 1992. […]
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Natural Climate Control Tools : Plants
by Daniel Brouse May 3, 2025 Smart Planting for a Comfortable Home: Using Indoor and Outdoor Plants to Warm in Winter and Cool in Summer Plants do much more than beautify our surroundings—they can also play a critical role in making our homes more energy-efficient. With thoughtful placement both outside and inside your windows, plants […]
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Economic Outlook: Short-Term Uncertainty and Long-Term Certainty
By Daniel Brouse May 3, 2025 The current economic outlook is defined by a climate of short-term uncertainty paired with an emerging long-term certainty—though not of the reassuring kind. Recent GDP data show the U.S. economy contracting in the first quarter of 2025, signaling the beginning of a potential recession. However, these numbers do not […]
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Whiplash Weather: How Climate Change Is Driving Faster, Stronger, and Deadlier Temperature Flips
by Daniel Brouse April 27, 2025 The study “Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world” published in Nature Communications found climate change is not just causing more heatwaves or cold spells — it’s making the swings between extremes faster and more violent, posing a new, poorly understood threat to both people […]
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The Unraveling of American Leadership: How Trump’s Policies Are Reshaping the Global Order and Undermining U.S. Credibility
by Daniel Brouse April 20, 2025 Donald Trump’s economic, immigration, and environmental policies have had significant ripple effects that are altering the global order and undercutting America’s role as a global leader. Here’s a breakdown of how each domain contributes to these broader consequences: 1. Economic Policies: Nationalism Over Globalism Tariffs and Trade Wars: Trump’s […]
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It’s the Service, Stupid: Understanding the Real U.S. Economy
By Daniel Brouse April 17, 2025 One of the most fundamental misconceptions of Trumpenomics is the belief that the United States is—or should be—a manufacturing-first economy. In reality, the U.S. has evolved into a service-based powerhouse and is now the world’s largest exporter of services, including finance, healthcare, education, software, intellectual property, and other knowledge-driven […]
Climate Change: Rate of Acceleration
By Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee August 25, 2023 Update: 2025 How Fast Are Humans Causing the Climate to Change? When we began our experiments in the 1990s, we believed the time scale for significant climate change was measured in millennia. If climate change progressed linearly, that assumption would hold. However, by the late ’90s, […]