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1893 and 2025

What awaits the winner of the 2024 elections?  It could be an economic crisis if not a crash or severe recession.   Trump is hoping to repeat what Cleveland did in 1892, win the election after losing his re-election in 1888 and becoming the second President to win an election after losing his re-election.  Hopefully for Trump, history won’t repeat itself as Cleveland election victory was met with a severe depression of 1893.  Two figures factors into it.  In 1890, Congress passed a law to allow government to purchase silvers and have the currency backed by gold and silver with a ratio of 16 ounce of silver for every ounce of gold with the idea of inflating the currency from a deflationary period.  The second factor was the McKinley Tarriff act that put tariffs at its highest level.  Tariffs were the main tax to cover Federal government costs with no income tax available but Tariffs like present income tax were impacted by the supply side for if the tariffs too high, it could result in higher prices and adding silver to gold led to a bubble which imploded on Cleveland watch.  The silver purchases canceled, and we saw the collapse of the economy with many companies bankrupt and banks closed. Deflation followed

Interesting side to the story that new gold discovery led to expansion of the gold and expansion of the money supply.  A recovery began when McKinley took over the Presidency, four years later.   Today we are seeing dark clouds including debts, government spending at a all-time high and slower job growth.  We just found out that in 2023, job growth was nearly 850,000 jobs less than originally reported.

And Bloomberg is predicting downward revision of 600,000 to 1,000,000 in 2024 so the actual unemployment rates may be higher.

And when you look inflation impact on American workers that changes in household net during the Biden/Harris declined compare to Trump years. 

The chart below showed the impact of inflation on food for many Americans and while inflation has cooled up according to statistics, for many Americans they still see it at the grocery stores.

And budget deficits have increased and while 2020 saw big increases due to  Covid pandemic, but spending continued after the Covid pandemic as new spending came to support green initiatives.  All this could lead to economic crisis in 2025 and whoever is President, will be stuck with cleaning up the mess. 

The Dollar is under assault as BRICS nations are now looking for alternative to the dollar as the reserve currency and recently Saudi Arabia is now open to trading in currencies beside the United States and allowed a 50 year with the United States on the Petrodollar expired this past June 9th.  As one Saudi official noted, “There are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it’s in the U.S. dollar, the euro, or the Saudi riyal.” The dollar is under siege, the budget exploding, and wars that threaten to expand into a possible World War show a world in chaos. This chaos could lead to an economic crisis in 2025.  

Will 2025 repeat what happened in 1893 in which Trump wins the election as Cleveland did only to find himself emerged in economic crisis.

december 15

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Boxing weekend Joshua and Navarette

Anthony Joshua fought Finnish fighter Robert Helenius whose last big fight was a one round knockout defeat at the hand of Deontay Wilder.  Joshua last fight was a decision victory against Jermine Franklin, and it was hardly impressive even though he won an easy decision, but it was like he was satisfied to win by a decision.  In this fight, he proved to be willing to finish his opponent.  Originally scheduled to face Dillian Whyte who flunk a pre drug chase and then step in Helenius, who had fought and defeated follow Finnish fighter Mika Mielonen in three rounds, so Helenius was ready and in shape. 

With the exception of the first round, Joshua out punched Helenius in every round and dominated much of the fight as he outpunched Helenius 74 punches to 48 punches and his jab was accurate as he landed his jab 35% of the fight.   Both fighters landed similar number of combinations and Joshua landed 18 power shots to 12 power shots for Helenius, so the biggest difference was Joshua jab that set up his other shots.

. Joshua victory keeps him in the discussion of a heavyweight champion and the big fight that people talk about is Wilder vs Joshua.  This would be interesting but for a few things, Wilder has only one fight, a one round knockout of Helenius since his last defeat at the hands of Fury.  Joshua has been active over the last few years and would have the advantage in the number of actual rounds fought.  A few years ago, I would have favored Wilder but now the advantage lies with Joshua who is a better boxer and been staying active.

Also, this weekend, Emanuel Navarrette faced Oscar Valdez and he showed his muster as he won an easy decision over Valdez, 116-112, 118-110 and 119-109 and no one would disagree that he earned the victory.  Valdez right eye was swollen shut.  This fight was supposed to happen six months ago, but Valdez back injury didn’t heal in time and Navarrete had to come back from a knockdown to win the WBO 130-pound title against Liam Wilson.  After that fight, he became Mexico tenth three-division titlist.  The crowd were rooting for his opponent, Oscar Valdez, and at the start Navarrete was the busy fighter. Navarrete landed more than double the punches and threw more than double the punches, but Valdez was the more economical and accurate punches.

Both fighters landed sold left hooks in round two and Valdez connected on body shots and then hooks while Navarrete landed his own hooks. Navarette started to time Valdez lateral movement and started to land his right.  Throughout the fifth and sixth round, both fighters landed solid shots, Valdez landed a right and even briefly forced Navarrete to the rope.  Valdez landed a left hook that shook Navarrete, but Navarrete landed a right uppercut.

Valdez caught Navarrete with another left hook, but Navarrette greater activity took hold of the fight, and he threw nearly 130 punches in round ten and then he landed 89 punches to Valdez 46 over the last three rounds.  Navarrette thought he had a knockdown and a 10-8 round in the final round, but it was ruled a slip.

Valdez did not back down and fought with his right eye swollen and may have been due to a broken orbital bone. Navarette is now 12-0 in title fights over three weight divisions and defeated a great fighter in Valdez who has now lost both to Shakur Stevenson in a unification bout and now to Navarette, whose only loss was in his fifth fight. Stevenson has stated he be happy to fight Navarette after he wins his lightweight title. 

 This weekend, we saw Joshua solidify his place in the heavyweight division and several big money fights with the biggest being Wilder. Navarette showed he is a force to be reckoned with as one of the better pounds for pound fighters.

june 9th

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Trump and DeSantis, populism and conservatism.

William F Buckley once wrote, “I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Not, heaven knows, because I hold lightly the brainpower or knowledge or generosity or even the affability of the Harvard faculty: but because I greatly fear intellectual arrogance, and that is a distinguishing characteristic of the university which refuses to accept any common premise. “

The battle between Trump and DeSantis is how best combine the conservative ideals and the modern populism. Populists know the institutions are not presently working but rarely do populists control those institutions to make changes and another issue is that populism is not define by policies but attitude.  Trump found himself having to populate his administration with many from the establishment to pass his tax plans and help with his deregulation plans. Trump main strength was and is rhetorical as he is on message with simple messages just as Make America Great Again whereas DeSantis is more esoteric as he understands that how government, tech platforms and corporate media work together to use their place in society to suppress freedom and entrench progressivism. Trump understands by personal experience the reach of the Deep state as he still suffers from prosecution in New York by Alvin Bragg, the special prosecutors in DC and in Atlanta Georgia. As for DeSantis, he has fought the progressives in Florida as he defended the rights of parents to remove pornographic material from school libraries and reminding others that it was the progressives who sought to ban Huckleberry Finn and to Kill A Mockingbird plus DeSantis went after the medical authoritarianism that impose the lockdowns, destroy businesses and closed schools long after they proved to be useless. DeSantis is not about burning it all down but using those institutions he can control to defang those controlled by woke ideology. 2020 Pandemic was a turning point for the Right as we saw a government literally get out of control both on a local basis and national basis as many people saw their rights trampled on and their government outright lie to them. It was not getting the pandemic wrong but when it became clear that the solutions were wrong, they refused to change course. Worse, they even attacked and censored those who disagree with the policies.

John Hinderaker observed about DeSantis, “The battle to defend normal Americans against the totalitarian onslaught of the Woke will likely be the number one issue in the 2024 presidential campaign, both in the GOP primaries and in the general election. In Ron DeSantis, Republicans have a candidate who not only understands the evil of workerism but has a solid track record of defeating it.”  Which leads me to interesting observation, if Trump wins the nomination, he will need DeSantis as his Vice President for unlike Pence, who totally failed as the head of the Covid task force, DeSantis understands the bureaucracy and knows how to fight it.

Neither men are part of the establishment, and both are hated by the progressive movement so this idea that DeSantis is some RINO is not only wrong but those make that statement are political hack or don’t fully understand DeSantis or his fight. Trump problem is less about policy and more about his own personal flaws that has hurt him in the past. Lack of personal discipline has hurt him in the past and helped undermine his support for his policies. Forget the polls for at the moment they essentially show a close race between both DeSantis and Trump versus Biden, but they show many undecided as well. Trump biggest flaw is that either you love or hate him, and as past history has shown, he is capable of not just getting his supporters out but his opponent. Doesn’t mean that DeSantis doesn’t put the same fear in his opponent but there is a quality in him that could appeal to those independents and Republicans who didn’t support Trump. We will see as the campaign unfolds.