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Cost of Living Concerns with 8-10% annual increase in electricity prices to 2030, pushing back renewable energy targets, neglecting essential investments in infrastructure, for a massive misallocation of capital, are major issues for Data Center Buildup of $2-$3 trillion by Tech companies.
11/16/2025
Tech companies are on a binge. But is it good for Society and the Nation? There are many warning signs.
Grouped Articles
What we know about energy use at U.S. data centers amid the AI boom
Pew Research Center 11/16/2025
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 05/26/2025
Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades
NYTimes.com 05/26/2025
Tim Cook’s Bad Year Keeps Getting Worse
WSJ 05/24/2025
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.
Grouped Articles
Inside the Plastic Industry’s Battle to Win Over Hearts and Minds
NYTimes.com 11/27/2024
Washington Post 06/10/2024
China Tries to Stem the Flow of Its Plastic Waste
WSJ 01/20/2020
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis
WSJ 12/12/2018
New York Businesses Anticipate Plastic-Bag Ban
WSJ 02/27/2020
Supermarkets in France forced to ditch plastic and set up ‘refill stations’ selling unpackaged goods
The Times 04/01/2021
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.
Grouped Articles
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
What kind of leadership can deliver for Britain,-for health, education and infrastructure, for women, climate change, families and children?
01/22/2022
The Guardian looks at Tory leaders Rishi Sunak- the smooth veneer, the tech-bro polished image after the Stanford days, and Jacob Rees-Mogg - the bewildering mix of social classes in the neighborhood of St Pancras where he grew up, to see if this is what will deliver for Britain's future after the pandemic.
Grouped Articles
Rishi Sunak: the polished ‘tech bro’ with low-tax dreams
The Guardian 01/21/2022
Rees-Mogg’s roots tell a true Conservative tale – just not the one he wants us to hear | Ian Jack
The Guardian 01/22/2022
How women can navigate the waters to find a family friendly workplace and get men to share in household chores. This is important for women's Mental Health.
09/24/2021
During the pandemic women increasingly stayed at home while men continued to work. Figures from Bureau of Labor Statistics show women ended up with doing even more household chores than men in 2020 compared to 2019. As a result women during the coronavirus feel worn out or burned out in addition to losing income. WSJ offers ways women can tackle this problem both by getting men to share in household chores, and finding employers who are family friendly as the coronavirus pandemic declines in 2022.
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How to Find a Family-Friendly Workplace
WSJ 09/24/2021
Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load.
WSJ 09/23/2021
Kick the sugar habit
07/17/2021
Healthy living means no more than 6% of daily calories of 2000 calories a day should come from sugar intake. During the coronavirus pandemic poor health habits mean pouring gasoline on fire. It is morally indefensible and a sign of a backward country that the the health guideline is set at 10% in the US. The mean consumption of sugar today in the US is 13%. In teaspoons about 6-8 teaspoons of added sugar is the healthy limit, at 16 calories per teaspoon this is 96 calories to 120 calories from added sugar. In grams this is 24 grams at 4 grams per teaspoon of sugar. It is critical to make it a habit to look at packaged foods labels and make intelligent choices. And to simply cut the sugar we add in tea, coffee or drinks by a third or a fourth. Good habits = good health. It is also critical to start this with public education in schools from K1 to high school.
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Boris Johnson must help us kick our sugar habit
The Times 07/17/2021
Beware sugar highs: seven healthy ways to get more energy – from stretching to sourdough
The Guardian 04/05/2021
New Limits Urged on Americans’ Sugar Consumption Amid Rising Obesity Concerns
WSJ 10/05/2020
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
NYTimes.com 01/06/2019
Biden's multi-trillion infrastructure spending plans for renewal of America
03/30/2021
US president Biden is pushing ahead with infrastructure spending on a big scale. He no longer seeks support from Republicans as he does not want to see the plans shrink. He is able to do this because the American people now have new perceptions about the role of government. They see it as indispensable in trade, global supply chains, protecting American technology, and in keeping America ahead with the latest infrastructure, skills development with education, healthcare that keeps Americans healthy.
Grouped Articles
Live Updates: Learning From the Past, Biden Aims for Big Spending Early in His Term
NYTimes.com 03/30/2021
Biden to Outline Proposal for Infrastructure Spending, Tax Increases
WSJ 03/30/2021
Behind Biden’s Big Plans: Belief That Government Can Drive Growth
WSJ 03/30/2021
One-term leader Joe Biden in a hurry
The Times 04/01/2021
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/2021
How "Made in America" was lost in making the chips that power smartphones, laptops and devices in cloud computing
12/22/2020
The story of how America went from making 75% of the world's chips in 1990 for electronic devices to 12% in 2020. And of China's rise from zero or negligible to becoming the largest maker of chips in the same period. The failure to protect American technology is the major lesson from this period as America looks at regaining the advantage and becoming once more the leader in technology and manufacturing.
Grouped Articles
Intel Not Inside: How Mobile Chips Overtook the Semiconductor Giant
WSJ 12/22/2020
How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company
WSJ 12/22/2020
Why Fewer Chips Say ‘Made in the U.S.A.’
WSJ 12/22/2020
Loan funds fending off distressed debt investors in 2020- signs of the changes underway after coronavirus
06/30/2020
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Lenders to Ailing Companies Circle Wagons to Fend Off Distressed-Debt Investors
WSJ 06/26/2020
The vision of the European Union alive and well - Macron and Merkel in June 2020 responding to the pandemic
06/06/2020
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Europe’s big two kiss and make up for pandemic rescue deal
The Guardian 06/06/2020
Great American Revival Industry Task Force
04/15/2020
The Trump Business task force has two tasks. How to respond to the economic damage from coronavirus and how to reopen the economy. The president is fine with reopening parts of the economy at a time, with the federal government working together with state governors - the least risk ones going first, the most risk ones coming last done on the advice of health experts. Testing and virus tracking are key issues in reopening the economy with systems that are both efficient and reliable needed for public to have confidence.
Grouped Articles
Business Leaders Urge Trump to Dramatically Increase Coronavirus Testing
WSJ 04/15/2020
Millions of Europeans Are on Paid Leave. Governments Are Picking Up The Tab.
WSJ 04/22/2020
Taking stock of the economic damage from coronavirus in April 2020- America
04/13/2020
Airlines, automobiles and retail are some of the worst hit industries.
Grouped Articles
How Coronavirus Spread Through Corporate America
WSJ 04/13/2020
The Critical Variable in Keeping Coronavirus in Check
WSJ 04/20/2020
Millions of Europeans Are on Paid Leave. Governments Are Picking Up The Tab.
WSJ 04/22/2020
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 11/16/25
This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts
Yale Insights 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
When AI Hype Meets AI Reality: A Reckoning in 6 Charts
The Wall Street Journal 11/14/25
DJT US 25% auto import tariff April 2, 2025
03/30/2025
The impact of the 25% DJT US auto import tariff comes after NAFTA and USMCA Trade Treaty did little to prevent the outshoring of US jobs and manufacturing to Mexico and Canada. German and South Korean companies made about 80% to 60% of cars sold in the US in Mexico or in their home country. The outshoring was used by American and foreign companies as a way to keep American automobile wages low as American companies could threaten workers asking for higher wages with loss of jobs by outshoring the production. This happened for two decades under the elder Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. The US International Trade Commission estimates in a 2024 study that this 25% tariff would increase revenues by 5% and prices by 5% in the US for cars. Higher prices over 10% would be borne by affluent buyers of BMW's, Benz and Audis. Because US auto plants have excess capacity and operate at 60% in 2025 they could quickly increase American production without increasing prices as American manufacturers car sales increase. Hyundai plans to invest $21 billion in US plants from 2025. UAW union supports this move by DJT and trade advisers Lighthizer, Jamieson USTR, and Navarro.
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Trump says he 'couldn't care less' if car prices rise in the US
BBC News 03/30/25
Transcript: UAW president Shawn Fain on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," March 30, 2025
03/30/25
How Trump’s Tariffs Are Hitting Big Car Producers, in Charts
WSJ 03/27/25
Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs
WSJ 03/28/25
Dissatisfaction in the American Workplace
11/28/2023
A high level of dissatisfaction in the American workplace is seen in 2023 Gallup Workplace Report and other surveys.
Grouped Articles
It’s 5:01 and I’m Done: No One Wants to Schmooze After Work
WSJ 09/13/23
FDIC Chair, Known for Temper, Ignored Bad Behavior in Workplace
WSJ 11/16/23
Five New Benefits and Perks Employers Will Tailor to Your Needs
WSJ 03/06/23
What CEOs Are Getting Wrong About the Future of Work—and How to Make It Right
WSJ 02/17/23
Is workplace stigma around mental health struggles changing?
BBC News 08/24/22
If Your Co-Workers Are ‘Quiet Quitting,’ Here’s What That Means
WSJ 08/18/22
Expanding Indian ties to the European Union in manufacturing, trade and advanced technologies
03/07/2023
Italy signs a strategic partnership agreement with India. President Scholz of Germany visits India with a business delegation. Siemens plans railway modernization manufacturing plants in India. New aviation sector is being built with French and US assistance and a huge order from Air India. Denmark's Maersk and other Danish companies help build the port logistics in India after a business and trade agreement with Denmark. The European Union joins the US in building a new supply chain based in India to replace one that caused inflation and bottlenecks, and was seen as a security risk with concentration of the supply chain in one country.
Grouped Articles
India, Italy elevate ties to strategic partnership, sign MoU on defence cooperation
The Hindu 03/02/23
Germany's Scholz in India: What's at stake? – DW – 02/25/2023
dw.com 02/28/23
On India visit, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz drinks tea at a street corner in Delhi
The Hindu 02/27/23
Siemens partners with India on railway modernization – DW – 02/27/2023
dw.com 02/27/23
The Hindu 12/04/22
A Nordic-India connect to power a green transition
The Hindu 02/08/23
Serious rethink of existing global supply chains
10/05/2021
Redesign of global supply chains is underway.
Grouped Articles
Supply chain crisis causes rethink at multinationals
10/03/21
‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course
The Guardian 10/02/21
East Asia’s Economies Face Slowing Growth and Rising Inequality, World Bank Warns
WSJ 09/28/21
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable
WSJ 06/19/21
For Clean Energy, Buy American or Buy It Quick and Cheap?
NYTimes.com 05/11/21
Wall Street Journal Facebook Investigation and the Outrage Algorithm, Instagram's toxic nature for teen girls
09/21/2021
An algorithm that exaggerates the outrage online creating an angrier place on the internet is one of the findings of the WSJ Facebook Investigation. It shows broken policies, broken tech and broken management. The effects on women are equally insidious and dangerous for mental health.
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The Facebook Files, Part 4: The Outrage Algorithm - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 09/20/21
WSJ 09/15/21
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/21
Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
WSJ 06/08/19
WSJ 09/16/21
Biden’s Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House
WSJ 07/18/21
Global corporate minimum tax rate to pay for new infrastructure
04/07/2021
Grouped Articles
Biden Softens Tax Plan Aimed at Profitable Companies That Pay Little
WSJ 04/07/21
G-20 to Seek Agreement on Global Minimum Tax Rate by Mid-2021
WSJ 04/07/21
Treasury’s Yellen Calls for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
WSJ 04/05/21
Yellen Pushes for Global Minimum Tax Rate on Companies: Live Updates
NYTimes.com 04/05/21
Biden Infrastructure Plan Aims to Boost Economy’s Productivity Over Time
WSJ 04/01/21
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/21
Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy of Amazon- the growth story of cloud computing and online retail
02/04/2021
Grouped Articles
Andy Jassy’s Climb to Amazon CEO Shows the Cloud’s Rising Power
WSJ 02/03/21
Jeff Bezos Exits as CEO, but His Role at Amazon Will Likely Little Change
WSJ 02/04/21
Jeff Bezos to stand down as Amazon chief executive
The Times 02/04/21
Profile: Andy Jassy, the new Amazon boss taking over from Jeff Bezos
The Times 02/04/21
Amazon: End of an era but also the dawn of a new day
The Times 02/04/21
Rising prices for homes and cars during the pandemic
09/09/2020
With a limited supply of homes and lost car production, the remaining supply is being sold at higher prices to people who have not lost jobs during the pandemic. The cars are more upscale and the homes are further away from the core parts of cities.
Grouped Articles
Car Sales Are Down Almost 20%, but Prices Are Setting Records
WSJ 09/04/20
Signs of V shape U.S. recovery
06/13/2020
Grouped Articles
Signs of a V-Shaped Early-Stage Economic Recovery Emerge
WSJ 06/13/20
Supply chain relocation by France, Britain and the U.S.
05/15/2020
France, Britain and the U.S. remain highly dependent on China for critical infrastructure related supplies. Action is being taken for complete reassessment of the supply chain and relocation back to the home countries and to other locations.
Grouped Articles
Covid-19 forces France to look at relocating its pharmaceutical industry
France 24 05/15/20
Great American Revival Industry Task Force
04/15/2020
The Trump Business task force has two tasks. How to respond to the economic damage from coronavirus and how to reopen the economy. The president is fine with reopening parts of the economy at a time, with the federal government working together with state governors - the least risk ones going first, the most risk ones coming last done on the advice of health experts. Testing and virus tracking are key issues in reopening the economy with systems that are both efficient and reliable needed for public to have confidence.
Grouped Articles
Business Leaders Urge Trump to Dramatically Increase Coronavirus Testing
WSJ 04/15/20
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