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How China's import cuts importing 8.5 million barrels a day down from 12.5 million and it's large oil reserve will keep oil prices low

07/15/2026

Not covered in the media for Hormuz is the combined response of US, China, India, Japan and the European Union to find alternatives to Hormuz making it less or not relevant to oil prices and oil supplies

07/10/2026

The Constructive Aspects of the situation in July 2026 from the Hormuz Crisis not covered in the Media

06/27/2026

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New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education

  
NYTimes.com - 10.23.2023 Original article ›
Claire Cain Miller, Francesca Paris
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Take notice my countrymen. There is a deep division in education where about two thirds of the people of America in the bottom of the income and wealth pyramid are excluded from the opportunities for education and the surroundings that build educational opportunity. As a result their test scores lag behind the upper 30%. About two thirds of American children in grade 4 cannot pass reading comprehension ACT tests.

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House Speaker: Johnson Elected Speaker of the House, Ending Weeks of Chaos

  
NYTimes.com - 10.25.2023 Original article ›
Catie Edmondson
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Electing a conservative member of Congress from Louisiana as the new Speaker of the House is a move that risks the Republican majority, says this report in the WSJ. It is historic and also new as Louisiana, the most southern of the Southern states has never had one of its members of Congress elected as Speaker. This week Mike Johnson was elected as Speaker after many failed attempts to fill this position.

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From Taxi Driver to Trump Case: Colorful New York Judge Is in the Spotlight

  
WSJ - 11.02.2023 Original article ›
Jacob Gershman
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Arthur Engoron pursued a music career while he earned degrees from Columbia and New York University, even taking a break from working at 2 NY law firms to pursue music. He worked as a cab driver during college. Engoron is unfazed by having to deal with Mr. Trump's tactics, and by the issues in the inflated values civil fraud case launched by the NY Attorney General Letitia James.

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No Nation in the World Is Buying More Planes Than India. Here’s Why.

  
NYTimes.com - 11.03.2023 Original article ›
Alex Travelli, Hari Kumar
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Huge orders made in 2023 for new planes from Boeing and Airbus now place India in the top ranks of the world civil aviation market. A large growing middle class is using air travel for business and tourism. The government is investing billions of dollars to build new airports in smaller and midsize cities in addition to Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore. A new aircraft industry is also coming up in Gujarat state.

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Adam Neumann Wounded WeWork, an Office Market Bust Finished It Off

  
WSJ - 11.02.2023 Original article ›
Eliot Brown, Konrad Putzier
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The work space company WeWork is valued at $47 billion then 4 years later in 2023 it is filing for bankruptcy. In 4 years FTX a cryptoexchange founded in 2019 collapses and by 2023 its founder is convicted on 7 counts.  Huge amounts of capital continue to be wasted in these schemes when America needs to Build Better Faster and Better to meet infrastructure needs, and in education and healthcare.

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What to Know About the New Covid Variants

  
NYTimes.com - 11.03.2023 Original article ›
Dana G. Smith
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HV.1 and EG.5 are the dominant Covid variants in November 2023 each taking up about 25% of cases in the US. Paxlovid works against these variants. The new Pfizer vaccine also works against these Covid variants. More than any single variant the rapid rate of virus evolution, the many mutations, are the chief concern of experts. Overall they combine to produce the threat we face in public health.

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One Road to Affordable EVs Passes Through This Man’s Turf

  
WSJ - 11.12.2023 Original article ›
River Davis, Yang Jie | Photographs By Ko Sasaki For The Wall Street Journal
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Taiwan computer and iphone maker Foxconn is setting up a new EV business with $600 million investment. GM, Toyota, Stellantis and other auto companies are making their own EV's and accumulating expertise in the manufacture of EV vehicles which have fewer parts and use software. Foxconn has operated as a supplier to Apple. It hopes to become a supplier of EV's with initial progress in Asian countries. 

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Dutch on brink of electing first female leader

  
POLITICO - 11.22.2023 Original article ›
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Dilan Isigloz is unusual in the Netherlands or in the EU. She leads the Democracy and Freedom Party of prime minister Rutte into the Dutch 2023 elections with the highest likely vote of 18%, tied with the New Social Contract Party. She is both a woman and an immigrant herself who is trying to curb immigration so that the Netherlands can absorb the immigrants it already has including good housing and other services.

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Bastille Day: A brief history of France’s July 14 national holiday

  
France 24 - 07.13.2023 Original article ›
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Indian prime minister Modi is the guest of honor on France's national holiday, the Bastille Day July 14, 2023. On this day French revolutionaries freed prisoners of King Louis XVI at the Bastille in Paris. By October this led to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen the first formal document of rights of the people before the American document on these same rights a few years later.

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Opinion | Your Business in China May Be Uninsurable

  
WSJ - 08.07.2023 Original article ›
Elisabeth Braw
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Demand for political risk insurance in China increased from 25% in 2019 to 68% in 2023, according to insurance broker WTW. Out of 50 insurers only 5 are offering political insurance for China and only for $50 million when most companies needing this insurance are large companies. The Ukraine war and China-US tensions over Taiwan are making it difficult for American or European companies to do business in China.

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First Lady Michelle Obama says Trump is 'trying to take away your hope'

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NBC News - 10.21.2016 Original article ›
Alexandra Jaffe, Hannah Hartig, John Lapinski, Stephanie Psyllos
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Michelle Obama delivers a rousing speech in Pheonix, Arizona, as she campaigns across the country for Hillary Clinton, saying "they are trying to take away your hope." And by reminding voters Obama lost the state in 2012 by only 208,000 votes or 63 votes per precinct, so voters should not stay home. She tried to revive the 2008 campaign theme of "hope" of the Obama campaign in that year.

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Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two

  
- 02.04.2019 Original article ›
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The effects of Tech in the economy dividing the workforce jobs into ones that pay extremely well at tech companies for advanced skills and a sea of other jobs in retail, hospitality, and logistics that may meagre wages. Wages even at tech companies like Amazon in logistics are for the most part low wage. Automation has depressed job creation in many industries putting pressure on wages for less skilled workers.

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Oil Billionaires Bet on Trump’s Energy Agenda

  
WSJ - 07.24.2024 Original article ›
Benoît Morenne, Collin Eaton
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Trump is getting the support of oil billionaires and oil and gas backers as he decides to ignore climate change completely in favor of "Drill, Baby Drill." Costs of not doing anything for climate change action would accumulate in the absence of action and it could cost the US upwards of 1 trillion dollars in 2028 to fix what was breaking and was ignored for 4 years.

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Behind the scenes as Joe Biden lost control of the Democratic Party

  
Washington Post - 07.20.2024 Original article ›
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This title is what Post readers have in mind about the Post itself turning into social media. Only 28 Democrats in Congress out of 264 and most in districts that are not safe or borderline which is not unusual are the issue. Taking out the Independents 91% of congressional Democrats support the president for 2024, and of the swing states maybe just 5 Democrats with none from Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia.

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On Russia’s Border, Fear and Defiance: ‘No One Will Chase Us Out of Here’

  
WSJ - 08.15.2024 Original article ›
Matthew Luxmoore, Ann M. Simmons
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Pictures and stories from the war front in the Kursk region of Russia as Ukraine pushes into Russian territory for 20-25 miles. Kursk a city of 500,000 is 70 miles from the border. The neighboring region of Belgorod and Voronezh are also part of the war zone. This was a place where the Red Army pushed back the Germans in 1943 when Ukrainians and Russians fought side by side.

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How Much Could This Car Repair Possibly Cost?

  
WSJ - 11.08.2024 Original article ›
Joe Pinsker
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Car repair costs surged 28% over the last 3 years from 2021 to 2024. A fender bender can end up costing a lot. Even a rear view miror can end up costing $1200 to $1500 for a 2020 car with the heating element and sensors on these cars. It compares to $200 to $400 on a 2013 car. The average repair cost in 2023 was $4700 for an insurance claim up 7.5%.

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Is This Yankees vs. Dodgers World Series Baseball’s Salvation—or Its Last Stand?

  
WSJ - 10.24.2024 Original article ›
Jason Gay
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A 70 year rivalry between two of the greatest teams in American baseball gets off to another start in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night, October 25, 2024. In 1978 44 million viewers tuned into to watch them compete in the World Series. New players such as Shohei Ohtani are playing for the first time in a World Series that is bringing new energy to baseball as an American pasttime.

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Harris Came for a Fox News Interview, but Got a Debate With Bret Baier

  
NYTimes.com - 10.17.2024 Original article ›
Michael M. Grynbaum
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This interview conducted by Bret Baier of Fox News of the vice president Kamala Harris was more like a debate with a Republican nominee for president as Baier would not let the vice president finish several times. The interview took place on October 16, 2024, in an effort by Harris to reach voters who supported Trump but would consider alternative visions of the future than the one offered by the former president.

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Migrants Have Been a ‘Godsend,’ New York Schools Chief Says

  
NYTimes.com - 09.05.2024 Original article ›
Troy Closson
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School enrollment in New York city for public schools has dropped from 1 million to 900,000 in 2024. Some families in NYC moved to South Carolina, and US birthrates are dropping. The migrant children fill this gap in city schools. Teachers have been adept at integrating children of different backgrounds. This is another side of the migration issue even as Biden has closed the border with Mexico for unlawful migration.

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Sunbelt Manufacturing Boom Lures Property Investors

  
WSJ - 09.10.2024 Original article ›
Will Parker
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Sunbelt manufacturing is taking off. TMC of Taiwan is spending $65 billon in Phoenix plant in one project alone. Biden's infrastruture spending is as active in red states, even more in red states than in blue states. Throughout America a "rising tide is lifting all boats," when it comes to manufacturing in America, an expression once used by JFK in then backward Arkansas in the South.

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Elon Musk Leaves Pentagon After Discussions About China and Tech

  
WSJ - 03.21.2025 Original article ›
Alexander Ward, Nancy A. Youssef
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Two stories in the NYT and this one in the WSJ on Musk attending a high security briefing on China by the War Department. DJT says on Truth Social site that Musk would not be allowed in any China briefing. DJT says  of plans for defense against China - "I don't want to show it to anybody." Musk has manufacturing plants in China for his EV company Tesla.

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The Promises vs. Realities of Trump’s First Months in Office

  
WSJ - 04.29.2025 Original article ›
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DJT First 100 Days. The Promises Kept and some of the hurdles along the way- on transgender, stopping flow of migrants and the border, getting a level playing field by reshaping world trade, attracting investment in manufacturing and making America a manufacturing nation. All this from Day One as there was no time to lose because of midterms being only 24 months away and Year One being the target for delivery.

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How New York City neighborhoods voted in the Democratic mayoral primary

  
The Washington Post - 06.25.2025 Original article ›
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How Mamdani won NYC - 20-40% increase in turnout on a 100 degree F day. And by increasing the liberal coalition of the 2021 Democrat primary of Kathryn Garcia in lower Manhattan, and of Maya Wiley in other parts of NYC. This is what a Washington Post Analysis of the 43% of the vote won by Zohran Mamdani a 33 year old NYC resident shows, as his opponent Andrew Cuomo got 36%.

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Older Workers Have a Big Secret: Their Age

  
WSJ - 11.18.2019 Original article ›
Carol Hymowitz
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Problems older workers face as they try to remain active, stay healthy with active participation, contributing to the economy. In societies like the U.S. where age has different meanings compared to Asian societies, older workers have to conceal their age. This goes against the need for greater workforce participation of older workers to make up for the effect of aging societies and fewer younger workers.

It is a good thing that labour force participation rates of workers in their 50's, 60's and 70's are growing, good for the health of the workers, good for their financial health nearing retirement and good for the productive contributions to the economy. Imagine all that experience going to waste.

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The rise of Japan's 'super solo' culture

  
BBC News - 07.26.2020 Original article ›
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More flexible attitudes about how lives can be lived and independent attitudes are leading to more people in Japan doing things alone on their own. For people to travel, go to concerts or events alone, and take part in other activities alone, is becoming more acceptable in Japan, a country where doing things together was once the only way. About 50% of people in Japan now do things independently, as society changes and demographics adds another factor of single people in retirement. The term used for this is ohitorisama in Japan. There is even karaoke for one person on his own, and eating by oneself at a restaurant or at work is now ok, quite acceptable.

 

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