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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.
Grouped Articles
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
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.
Grouped Articles
Even Disney Is Worried About the High Cost of a Disney Vacation
WSJ 02/09/2025
Kamala Harris Agenda to Lower Costs for American Families
08/17/2024
A series of Actions from Kamala Harris to Cut Costs for American Families in Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals prices, Grocery prices, Housing and Rental prices. This is critical for families struggling from paycheck to paycheck.
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget 08/17/2024
The White House 08/17/2024
Harris and Trump Offer a Clear Contrast on the Economy
NYTimes.com 08/17/2024
The White House 08/17/2024
The White House 08/17/2024
Remarks by Vice President Harris at a Campaign Event in Raleigh, NC | The White House
The White House 08/17/2024
The week Kamala Harris became the 2024 Democratic nominee in 48 hours
07/25/2024
The two tumultuous weeks in July 2024 started with a sniper shooting at the former president, followed by the Republican Convention within days. The president's address calling for calm, Trump's 90 RNC address which rambled to veer off course. Second thoughts about Trump and Biden's age and calls by Democrats for Biden to withdraw after the faltering delivery in the debate. Biden has Covid and isolates for a few days. On July 22 around 1.45 pm Biden puts out a letter on X (Twitter) that he is withdrawing and giving his full support to Kamala. Within hours Harris has overwhelming support. The next day morning Harris has secured the delegates needed. By the 24th in 48 hours she has raised $250 million for the campaign and about 100,000 volunteers. A dizzying pace for 48 hours that riveted the attention of the American people and the world.
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With Speech to Teachers, Harris Waded into a Fiery Education Debate
NYTimes.com 07/25/2024
Kamala Harris: A woman of firsts – DW – 07/23/2024
dw.com 07/25/2024
‘Capable’ Harris and Biden’s legacy: key takeaways from the president’s address
The Guardian 07/25/2024
Biden Says He Will ‘Pass the Torch’ to Harris in Oval Office Address After Ending Campaign
WSJ 07/24/2024
Opinion | Kamala Harris Confounds the Republicans
WSJ 07/24/2024
President Biden Addresses the Nation
YouTube 07/25/2024
Robo-Lending and the crisis in housing in the USA
11/13/2010
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Wall Street Journal 11/13/2010
States, mortgage lenders in talks over fund for borrowers in foreclosure mess
Washington Post 11/17/2010
Court Voids Foreclosures by U.S. Bancorp and Wells Fargo
New York Times 01/07/2011
Banks Court More Woe on Foreclosures
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2011
Schneiderman Is Said to Face Pressure to Back Bank Deal
New York Times 08/21/2011
California Pulls Out of Foreclosure Talks
Wall Street Journal 09/30/2011
Karl Case on Housing in America in 2010.
09/01/2010
The co-author of the Case-Shiller Housing index on housing markets, and what the dream of buying a house in America really means; what its benefits really are outside of speculation.
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Home Prices Rise, Producing a Buying Mood
New York Times 05/28/2013
New York Times 09/01/2010
Housing Market Is Still Facing a Blizzard
Wall Street Journal 12/29/2010
Housing Prices, Still Falling, May Be Nearing Bottom
New York Times 05/31/2011
The Sickness Beneath the Slump - Economic View
New York Times 06/11/2011
Housing Market Displays New Vigor as Prices Rise
Wall Street Journal 09/26/2012
The U.S. housing market in 2010-2013
05/27/2010
According to Karl Case its basically flat in 2010 and quite fragile, with a lot of inventory out there. By 2012 the situation had not changed much, except for Washington D.C. with growth in employment, and a small spurt in 2011 in Phoenix from out of state and Canadian buyers. Prices in Las Vegas and other cities continued to decline and there were fears of more homes being released by banks from foreclosed properties in judicial states such as Florida.
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Housing Rebound Grows as Prices Climb Sharply
Wall Street Journal 05/09/2013
The economic performance of cities: Following the sun
Economist 05/16/2013
Home Prices Rise, Producing a Buying Mood
New York Times 05/28/2013
Housing Recovery Increasingly Prices Out First-Time Buyers
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
Economic Casualties: 'Missing Households'
Wall Street Journal 07/22/2013
Home Prices Jump, but Headwinds Build
Wall Street Journal 07/31/2013
The state attorneys general in the U.S. and the subprime lending and foreclosure crises and mortgage settlements.
12/08/2009
Federal regulators and the Bush and Obama administrations failed miserably to help homeowners achieve loan modifications. This with the false belief that putting homeowners out of their homes would actually speed up a recovery, considering the huge scale of foreclosures in the USA , the high unemployment and other problems hitting the economy. Feldstein's consistent arguments for homeowner relief throughout 2008 and 2009- considering the large number of homeowners under water- as the mortgage crisis unfolded, were ignored by the Bush and Obama administrations. See the comparisons to Japan's lost decade, as the lack of recovery in housing adds to problems with job losses. The lawsuits, legal action and mortgage settlements facing banks as they make their way through the mortgage mess.
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A Toxic Subprime Mortgage Bond's Legacy Lives On
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
Wall Street Journal 12/31/2013
Fannieâs and Freddieâs Foreclosure Oversight Questioned
New York Times 10/19/2010
Banks Keep their Mortgage Litigation Reserves a Secret
New York Times 01/16/2014
The Case Against the Bernanke-Obama Financial Rescue
New York Times 05/16/2014
BP’s Cuts May Wound Portfolio Recovery
Wall Street Journal 02/04/2015
How much of a factor were low interest rates under Greenspan in creating a bubble in housing prices?
01/02/2009
Fed chairman Bernanke was a Fed Governor who advocated low interest rates at the time. His response. Expert opinion.
Grouped Articles
Wanted: A Boring Leader for the Fed
New York Times 08/20/2013
What's Needed in the Next Fed Chief
New York Times 09/15/2013
Fed chief Bernanke urges better financial regulation to prevent crises
Washington Post 01/04/2010
Lax Oversight Caused Crisis, Bernanke Says
New York Times 01/04/2010
The Fed and the Crisis: A Reply to Ben Bernanke
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2010
Bernanke’s Bid for a Second Term at the Fed Hits Resistance
New York Times 01/23/2010
Martin Feldstein on the risks for the American Economy after failures in the Obama Economic plan.
09/12/2007
Failures to address problems on the housing front, especialy the problems for 15 million homeowners under water- see the links to opeds by Feldstein suggesting focus on these issues throughout 2008-2009. And the focus on health care which diverted attention from this problem and the problem facing bad loans in commercial real estate. Other problems are failure to get bank lending up for businesses. And the failure of Obama health care plans to control the increase in the nation's surging health care spending, instead increasing the deficit to unsustainable levels. Public sentiment as shown in WSJ/NBC polls confirm Feldstein's sense of the situation.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 12/08/2013
From President Obama, Economic Clarity but Little Courage
Washington Post 04/15/2009
Wall Street Journal 09/12/2007
How to Stop the Mortgage Crisis
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2008
Wall Street Journal 02/20/2008
Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2008
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
Grouped Articles
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
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
Inspiring Olympian stories defying the odds- Brayshaw's horse riding accident to rowing, Pidcock 40 second mountain biking puncture, 17 year sub Takenawa 96th minute distance goal
07/30/2024
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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.
Grouped Articles
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
The Republican party and its plans to defund the Affordable Care Act (Obama Health Care Law) in the U.S.
09/30/2010
Plans in the GOP to defund the healthcare bill if the Republicans win a majority in the House of Representatives.
Grouped Articles
A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning
New York Times 10/05/13
In Rural Iowa, Spending, Not the Shutdown, Raises Worry
New York Times 10/04/13
Why Democrats Are Dug in on Shutdown Impasse
Wall Street Journal 10/14/13
Jim DeMint: We Won't Back Down on ObamaCare
Wall Street Journal 10/17/13
Behind Debt Deal: Silence, Distrust and Hardball
Wall Street Journal 10/17/13
The GOP Eyes Defunding Health Reform
BusinessWeek 09/30/10
Fannie and Freddie in 2010-2011
06/19/2010
The growing US governmet liability for Fannie and Freddie -companies that fueled the housing bubble with their implicit governmet guarantees to investors in housing mortgages. The cost of rescue has reached $146 billion and according to the Congressional Budget Office could have eventual cost of $389 billion.
Grouped Articles
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Unfinished business
Economist 07/24/10
Cost of Fannie And Freddie Keeps Rising
New York Times 06/19/10
Fannie, Freddie Elicit Grim Forecast
Wall Street Journal 10/22/10
What Fannie and Freddie Might Cost the Taxpayers
New York Times 10/21/10
Wall Street Journal 10/26/10
New York Times 10/31/10
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Brazil's President.
01/03/2010
A former automobile worker with a difficult childhood in a one room house in rural Brazil, is elected President of Brazil.
Grouped Articles
New Candidate Set to Join Brazilian Presidential Race
Wall Street Journal 08/18/14
Report of an Inquiry Into a Former President Rattles Brazil
New York Times 05/01/15
Brazil Adds to Tally of Corruption Scandals With Investigation of a Former President
New York Times 07/16/15
Brazil’s Ex-Leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Is Held and His Home Raided
New York Times 03/04/16
Ex-President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Faces Charges
New York Times 03/09/16
Brazil Workers’ Party, Leaders ‘Intoxicated by Power,’ Falls From Grace
New York Times 05/12/16
The total cost to US taxpayers for Fannie and Freddie.
01/12/2009
The total cost could be $658 billion, according to a Standard and Poor's estimate in late 2010. And prove very costly for taxpayers in the USA. The government put the agencies in conservatorship during the housing crisis of 2008.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/13/13
Freddie's Profit Soars on Housing Rebound
Wall Street Journal 05/08/13
Fannie Mae to pay $59.4B to Treasury - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/09/13
Fannie Chief: Payout Must Not Delay Revamp
Wall Street Journal 05/10/13
Fannie, Freddie Payments Nearly Match Aid
Wall Street Journal 11/08/13
White House Rejects Fannie-Freddie Recapitalization Plans
Wall Street Journal 11/23/13
An exceptional and detailed look at President Obama and his first term in office.
01/28/2008
A long informal interview with Obama by Peter Baker of the New York Times, in October 2010. Baker covers all aspects of President Obama's first term in office, and compares Obama's situation with that of his predecessors, Reagan, Clinton and Bush. He uses his personal knowledge of other Presidents to throw more light on the Obama Presidency.
Grouped Articles
Germans Loved Obama. Now We Donât Trust Him.
New York Times 06/29/13
Where the Buck Stops, Some See a Bystander
New York Times 10/29/13
As Bush Settles Into Dallas, Golf Tees and Family Time Now Trump Politics
New York Times 11/02/13
Fouad Ajami: When the Obama Magic Died
Wall Street Journal 11/15/13
BusinessWeek 04/06/09
Geithner Book Reveals Consensus, Not VIsion, During Financial Crisis
New York Times 05/21/14
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