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The Wall Street Journal profiled Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp. It said: More than two decades of running Palantir, a data analysis firm best known for working with the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, has made Karp a billionaire many times over. Though government work represents only a portion of a…

According to Bloomberg: Four years after blasting US fiscal and monetary policymakers for excessive stimulus that risked the biggest inflation blowout in a generation, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned there’s danger of another breakout in price pressures. This is probably the most sensitive moment we’ve had for an escalation in inflation since the…

Trump and Musk want to to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it was created by ElizabethWarren, whom they hate, before she was a senator. According to Wikipedia: The agency was originally proposed in 2007 by Elizabeth Warren while she was a law professor. The CFPB’s creation was authorized by…

Trump campaigned against the courts that were indicting him before he was elected. He has zero respect for courts, although he used them repeatedly to protect himself when he was in the real estate business. Wikipedia has an entry entitled “Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump” It says:…

According to Wired, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

The New York Times reports that President Trump declared on Tuesday while meeting with Netanyahu that Palestinians had no choice but to leave Gaza because of the devastation wrought by Israel’s war with Hamas. He indicated that they could move to Egypt or Jordan, who do not want them. If…

Trump agreed to postpone tariffs on Mexico when Mexico promised to send 10,000 troops to the US border, according to Bloomberg. Unfortuately the Mexican military has been corrupted by the drug culture, according to NPR. Trump may have made a bad deal with Scheinbaum.

New York Times’ David Brooks on how Trump will fail.

The Washingtn Po s The Washington Post is concerned about the fact that Trump is shortcircuiting the security clearance process for some of his new cabinet appointees. Trunp’s mishandling of classified data at his home in Mar a Lago showed he cannot be trusted with secret information. s

According to Just Security, US diplomats warned of possible trouble in the country of Georgia in light of the recent election turmoil. They said: Former U.S. national security officials and Georgia experts have been alarmed by the recently escalating repression of freedom of speech and assembly in Georgia and the…