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How massive overspending on AI data centers to the tune of $1.5 trillion to 2028 is bad for retirees with their savings going into Tech issued corporate bonds with higher risk,not just bad for crowding out investment in vital needs of crumbling infrastructure of the Nation, Manufacturing, Housing, Cost of Living concerns, Renewable Energy.
11/16/2025
Uncertainty over returns, with revenue stream hazy and massive overspending is seen as a danger signal by a wide range of public opinion and experts shown here in Lyrarc.com in November 2025. All other priorities of the Nation are getting crowded out as 5 Tech companies engage in reckless competition at the expense of everybody else.
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The shutdown is over, but the nation’s aviation problems are not.
The Washington Post 11/16/2025
This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts
Yale Insights 11/15/2025
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press 11/15/2025
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
The Wall Street Journal 11/12/2025
Who Will Pay for the AI Revolution? Retirees
The Wall Street Journal 11/14/2025
When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
The Wall Street Journal 11/14/2025
How India could get the Trade Deal with the US by buying oil from US and Saudis/UAE and allowing imports of non grain and non dairy agricultural products
08/28/2025
US sanctioned India with 50% tariff for buying Russian oil saying it finances RUssia's war against Ukraine and daily deadly missile strikes. ein dollar terms are now insignificant at $2-the 3 billion. In fact India is already shifting to getting more of its imports from the Middle East. India could also import additional oil from the US and make changes to import non grain and non dairy agricultural products from the US in large volumes such as almonds, walnuts, pistachios, blueberries, cherries that it's upper middle class population of 250 million could benefit from the nutritional benefits. US in its fight against the pharmaceutical companies high pricing could change laws to bring in Indian pharmaceutical products at 10-15% price above Indian prices set by the government to meet needs of its large population. In pharma product pricing India leads the whole world and this benefit would lower the cost of living in the US tremendously. Both sides would benefit in a WIn-WIn relationship in trade- THIS IS ACHIEVABLE FOR THE INTERESTS OF AMERICANS AND INDIANS. IT ONLY REQUIRES VISION OF BOTH SIDES.
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India's benefit from Russian oil imports exaggerated; actual gain at just $2.5 bn
The Economic Times 08/28/2025
Opinion | America’s Fearsome Farm Lobby Has Nothing on India’s
The Wall Street Journal 08/27/2025
The US Cost of Living Crisis 2023-2025
02/24/2025
Cost of Living Crisis and huge gaps in income and wealth between the top 20 percent and the bottom 80 percent aggravate standards of living in America in a way not seen since the Second World War. About 45% increase in prices on cars, used cars, car repairs, housing rentals and groceries, in many household expenses, since 2019. Incomes of workers not having kept up with this kind of spiralling inflation. This is upending the social compact and leading to loss of faith in governments in the US and Europe. Change in governments in UK, France, Germany, and the US and a sense of unease among people.
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Even Disney Is Worried About the High Cost of a Disney Vacation
WSJ 02/09/2025
Income and Wealth Gaps US 2025- Top 10 percent support 50 percent of consumer spending in 2024
02/24/2025
Top 20 percent in the US have $1.2 trillion in excess income savings and increased Net Worth to $35 trillion from 2019 to 2025. Bottom 80 percent have about $300 billion in excess income savings and increased Net Worth to $14 trillion in that period.
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The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
WSJ 02/24/2025
Trump plan to end tax on Social Security benefits is a fatal mistake
08/17/2024
Senator Larson says it is a fatal mistake as lost revenue is not made up leading to a Medicare insolvency in 2031, and Social Security insolvency in 2033. Social security benefits will then by law will be cut in 2033 by 25%, a dangerous step tragic for many on Social Security who are pushed into poverty.
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CNBC 08/17/2024
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 08/17/2024
Trump wants to cut income taxes on Social Security. Here's how that would impact your benefits.
CBS News 08/17/2024
America has forgotten it is American workers who built America
09/28/2023
Entry level tier wages for auto workers at $17 an hour in 2022 as the UAW union goes on strike in 2023. At $34,000 a year entry level young auto workers make less than the $35,000- 40,000 a year for families set as the Federal Poverty Level by the Department of HHS. Lincoln and TR-FDR would see this as outrageous as American workers built American factories and America since the Industrial Revolution. America has forgotten its workers and worker's families, worker's children. Two thirds of children with the vast majority from the workers families not able to pass ACT reading comprehension at the 4th grade, and 50 % of retired people having zero savings. Not the America of Lincoln or TR-FDR.
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Trump’s pitch for autoworker votes in car heartland is short on autoworkers
The Guardian 09/28/2023
Biden Joins Autoworkers on Picket Line in Michigan
NYTimes.com 09/27/2023
Biden Joins UAW Picket Line Ahead of Trump Visit, Opening 2024 Election Fight
WSJ 09/26/2023
Five Clues to Where the UAW Strike Is Headed Next
WSJ 09/23/2023
Battle Over Electric Vehicles Is Central to Auto Strike
NYTimes.com 09/17/2023
Whatever the UAW Strike Outcome, Elon Musk Has Already Won
WSJ 09/16/2023
View from the Top: John Malone of Liberty talks about the economic future.
07/30/2014
Malone sees the conditions in the macroeconomic picture, as critical in the future for all companies. He thinks things will be pretty tough in the next 1-2 years. It will be the bigger consumer sentiment and retail picture that will determine how his industry will do, says Malone.
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For Liberty Global, the Next Step Is the Content
Wall Street Journal 07/30/2014
Insider Trading investigations in the US in 2010-2014
11/22/2010
Grouped Articles
Former SAC Manager Mathew Martoma Found Guilty in Insider Case
Wall Street Journal 02/06/2014
FBI Raids Two Hedge Funds Amid Insider-Trading Case
Wall Street Journal 11/22/2010
Wall Street Journal 01/19/2012
Why Are Investors Fleeing Equities? Hint: Its Not the Computers
New York Times 08/06/2012
Analysis of the 2010 US midterm election
11/21/2010
The divide between those without a college degree and the highly educated, between the densely populated areas and the less densely populated areas, the two coasts and the midwest.
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Political divide between coasts and Midwest deepening, midterm election analysis shows
Washington Post 11/21/2010
A Part-Time, Low-Wage Epidemic
Wall Street Journal 11/06/2012
US-Russia nuclear weapons control Start treaty in 2010-2011
11/20/2010
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Nuclear weapons: The new nuclear age
Economist 04/05/2015
Race for Latest Class of Nuclear Arms Threatens to Revive Cold War
New York Times 04/16/2016
New York Times 11/20/2010
Farewell to the Age of the Treaty
New York Times 11/21/2010
The Case for Ratifying New Start
Wall Street Journal 11/24/2010
From 16 Leading Britons, a Plea for the Arms Treaty
New York Times 11/29/2010
Public reaction to the 2010 US Deficit Commisssion report
11/18/2010
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Deficit Proposal Draws Mixed Review
Wall Street Journal 11/18/2010
New York Times 11/22/2010
The U.S. government's recovery of funds used to bailout insurers, banks, Fannie, Freddie, and auto companies
11/16/2010
The US government still has a ways to go to recover funds from the auto bailouts. AIG is still costly. Fannie and Freddie are an entirely different story, a debacle with huge additional funds needed.
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Freddie's Profit Soars on Housing Rebound
Wall Street Journal 05/08/2013
Fannie Mae to pay $59.4B to Treasury - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/2013
Fannie Chief: Payout Must Not Delay Revamp
Wall Street Journal 05/10/2013
Cost of Bailouts Continues to Decline
Wall Street Journal 05/10/2013
Fannie, Freddie Payments Nearly Match Aid
Wall Street Journal 11/08/2013
White House Rejects Fannie-Freddie Recapitalization Plans
Wall Street Journal 11/23/2013
City of London as financial capital of Europe
11/11/2010
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Britain’s Global Banking Hub Is Mostly Leery of an E.U. Exit
New York Times 02/09/2016
London's Rising Towers May Presage a Shrinking Economy
BusinessWeek 11/11/2010
Londonism and its adherents: The capital's creed
Economist 02/05/2011
BusinessWeek 03/31/2011
For Britain, Another Step Away From Europe
New York Times 12/11/2011
David Cameron’s move to save the City, not the euro - The Washington Post
Washington Post 12/12/2011
Huge mismatch between profits of $20 billion and investment of $400 billion for AI in 2025 and $1.5 trillion in spending to 2028 that is crowding out investments in repairing America's crumbling infrastructure, manufacturing, renewable energy, housing, health, education
11/16/2025
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The shutdown is over, but the nation’s aviation problems are not.
The Washington Post 11/16/25
This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts
Yale Insights 11/15/25
Simple maths says the AI investment boom ends badly
Firstlinks 11/15/25
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press 11/15/25
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
The Wall Street Journal 11/12/25
Who Will Pay for the AI Revolution? Retirees
The Wall Street Journal 11/14/25
Steve Jobs Tim Cook and shipping out of America' industrial base and with it America's leadership of the Free World
05/26/2025
America's industrial strength, it's industrial base, is one of the four pillars of America's leadership of the Free World. Without it the Free World will fall apart. The other pillars are it's education and it's health care. Underfunding of education with declining enrolment of men in college and lack of factory jobs comes with loss of the industrial base for taxes, taxes avoided by Apple and other companies. All these problems are becoming clear in 2025 as DJT calls for reindustrializing the Nation.
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Trump, Apple relationship devolves with threats
The Hill 05/26/25
Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades
NYTimes.com 05/26/25
Tim Cook’s Bad Year Keeps Getting Worse
WSJ 05/24/25
Why cost of living is destroying the social compact in the US and Europe and upending governments in 2024-2025
02/24/2025
Used car prices are up 45% since 2019 putting used cars at average price $28000. It is not a discretionary cost, one needs a car to get to work in the US. There are cases of young people not able to pay soaring repair costs quitting work without transport. This is why there was so much discontent in 2024 after supply shocks and price gouging pushed up prices in 2024. Another factor evident in airline ticket pricing was demand and the excess income of the top 20 percent. In housing and apartment rentals supply shortages pushed up prices, demand and excess income of the top 20-30 percent pushed up prices beyond the reach of the rest, higher interest rates made it unaffordable to buy a home for most Americans.
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Why There Is No Relief Ahead for High Used-Car Prices
WSJ 02/15/25
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People
WSJ 02/24/25
Action to cut single use plastic bags and packaging 2025
11/27/2024
Efforts to end the use of single use plastics that are a threat to health and the environment, land, rivers and oceans. The use of plastic water bottles has worsened the crisis. Supermarkets are slow in the US to ban plastic bags showing need for prudent regulation. Talks in Busan, South Korea, in Nov 2024 to find a solution to the plastics proliferation crisis. The plastics industry including plastics makers and recycling companies say things are under control with recycling goals, yet reports show only 30% of plastics is being recycled each year in 2024, and going back to the beginning of plastics 2 decades back only about 10% has been recycled.
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Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
NYTimes.com 11/27/24
Washington Post 06/10/24
China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste
WSJ 01/20/20
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis
WSJ 12/12/18
New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban
WSJ 02/27/20
Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods
The Times 04/01/21
Mitch MConnell, Mike Johnson, Pat Schumer and the effort to get Ukraine Aid passed through the US Congress in April 2024
04/26/2024
At a critical juncture which Lyrarc compared to the 1948 effort by Harry Truman to get Congress to support aid to Greece and Turkey. Devastated by the war Greece and Turkey's democracies faced an imminent threat from a Communist takeover supported by the Soviet bloc. Ukraine was at a critical juncture in the war with Russia when Biden met Republican Speaker Mike Johnson at the White House with Mitch McConnell and Pat Schumer in Feb 2024. Schumer said a lot of the credit goes to McConnell to convince 31 Republican Senators a majority of his caucus to support Ukraine Aid at a critical moment.
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Aid to Ukraine seemed dead. Then secretive talks revived it.
Washington Post 04/25/24
Bucking G.O.P. Isolationists, McConnell Was Linchpin in Winning Ukraine Aid
NYTimes.com 04/24/24
‘Kharkiv Is Unbreakable’: A Battered City Carries On
NYTimes.com 04/24/24
Opinion | Ukraine Aid in the Light of History
NYTimes.com 04/24/24
Senate Approves Aid for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden’s Desk
NYTimes.com 04/24/24
Speaker Johnson’s Ukraine Package Clears Key Hurdle With Democratic Help
WSJ 04/19/24
Hacking into U.S. databases by Russia and the U.S. presidential election of 2016
10/11/2016
Intrusion into U.S. databases by Russia seen as an effort to influence the U.S. election process. In 2014 cyber security issues with China were brought up in meetings between president Obama and China's president Jinping, and efforts made to reach an agreement to prevent recurrence.
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Why the US fears Russia is hacking its presidential election - BBC News
BBC News 10/11/16
The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video
The Washington Post
Senate and House Leaders Call for Inquiry of Russian Hacking in Election
The New York Times 12/12/16
C.I.A. Judgment on Russia Built on Swell of Evidence
The New York Times 12/12/16
Russian Hackers and American Hacks
WSJ 12/11/16
Donald Trump Chooses Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State
WSJ 12/13/16
Putin and Russia's shift in Ukraine policy with the impact of capital flight, western sanctions and a sharp slowdown in the economy by July 2014
07/11/2014
Polls show 66% of the Russian public opposes Russian forces going into Ukrainian territory. The rhetoric on Russian television has been toned down and Russian analysts say intervention in Ukraine would have dangerous consequences for Russia, that Russia needs to maintain its relations with the West. At the same time Putin will attend a summit of BRIC's leaders in Fortaleza, Brazil, with plans to set up a development bank, as the focus shifts back to the economy. Russia is expected to feel the impact of $75 billion in capital flight in the first half of 2014.
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Seeing Cost of Saber Rattling in Ukraine, Putin Alters Course
New York Times 07/11/14
U.S. Escalates Sanctions Against Russia Over Ukraine Crisis
Wall Street Journal 07/17/14
Raising Stakes on Russia, U.S. Adds Sanctions
New York Times 07/16/14
Putinism Thrives on Dirty Money
Wall Street Journal 07/22/14
Wall Street Journal 07/22/14
Coordinated Sanctions Aim at Russia’s Ability to Tap Its Oil Reserves
New York Times 07/29/14
North Korea and the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation
11/22/2010
The view that is emerging that the US has to find some positive ways to engage with North Korea. China's support of North Korea makes it less likely that the regime will simply collapse as the US would hope. All this is happening in the context of North Korea's continued development of nuclear weapons capabilities in 2010.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/12/13
Nuclear weapons: The new nuclear age
Economist 04/05/15
Wall Street Journal 04/23/15
Robert Carlin and John W. Lewis - Review U.S. policy toward North Korea
Washington Post 11/22/10
North Korea Nuclear Find Raises Fear on Tehran
Wall Street Journal 11/22/10
Jimmy Carter - North Korea's consistent message to the U.S.
Washington Post 11/24/10
Rising state payroll taxes in the U.S. as borrowing from the federal government increases
11/20/2010
Rising state payroll taxes in the US in 2010 acts as a disincentive for hiring. The rising state payroll taxes go to paying back $41 billion in loans from the federal government needed to fund unemployment insurance.
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States Raise Payroll Taxes to Repay Loans
Wall Street Journal 11/20/10
Job Tax Plan Lands With a Thud
Wall Street Journal 02/09/11
Obama Plans to Rescue States With Debt Burdens
New York Times 02/08/11
Relief for States and Businesses
New York Times 02/09/11
In Florida, the Unemployed May Face Deep Cuts in Benefits
New York Times 03/31/11
In Missouri, Extension of Unemployment Pay Is Blocked
New York Times 03/31/11
Municipal bond issuance by local governments and states in the US- 2010-2012
11/18/2010
Grouped Articles
California Bond Woe Bodes Ill for States
Wall Street Journal 11/18/10
The Weak Get Weaker as Muni Bonds Are Sold Off
Wall Street Journal 12/19/10
Pained Muni Investors Cry Uncle
Wall Street Journal 12/22/10
Recession-bruised states' revenue sank 30 percent in 2009, Census Bureau reports
Washington Post 01/05/11
Bond Buyers' Eyes Are on Illinois
Wall Street Journal 01/07/11
Illinois Deficit Leads to Talk of Big Tax Increase
New York Times 01/09/11
US Rep. and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
11/18/2010
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New York Times 11/18/10
Opinion | Nancy Pelosi Spanks the First Brat
New York Times 01/12/19
Immigration in Canada.
11/12/2010
The success of Manitoba in attracting immigrants. The public support for immigration in Canada. The point system, and the absence of a border such as the US has with Mexico, creates a favorable attitude to immigration among Canadians. About 20% of Canadians are immigrants compared to 12.5% in the US, making them a signifcant bloc in elections.
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Defying Trend, Canada Lures More Migrants
New York Times 11/12/10
Immigrants Aren’t Taking Americans’ Jobs, New Study Finds
The New York Times 09/21/16
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