I apologize for the behavior of the power drunk president of the USA to anyone and any agency anywhere in the world that has received irrational behavior in whatever form it manifested.

Okay, sooner or later the American people have to understand their president has a mental health problem.

When a person rejects the VA's research as nonsense, that is not a stable person. There is no appreciation for the work and the outcome of that research and simply rejecting it is like laughing at death. There is no reasonable response from the president to anyone.

What do mentally healthy people say when someone sends them a nonsensical letter with all the facts dismissed in place of an alternate reality? It is a mentally disturbed person writing the letter. Because it was the president of the USA writing the letter others have to respond because of the extreme seriousness that surrounds the office, if not the man.

This isn't the first time he has authored an irrational letter.

Anyone can look at the response of Trump to this national health emergency and know he is mentally disturbed. It started with denial and a hope a virus this deadly would simply blend in with the flu virus statistics.

There has been no rational response to this national emergency from the president. 

Let me state that again.

There has been no rational response to this national emergency from the president.

The reason he is not understood to be mentally unhealthy is that he is currently holding the presidency of the USA which has the power that has to be answered regardless of the incompetency of the man behind the Resolute Desk. Basically, the answers are to the desk and not the man.

It is what it is. But, Donald John Trump has mental health issues. The Emperor needs new clothes.

April 21, 2020
By Christopher Rowland

An anti-malarial drug (click here) President Trump has aggressively promoted to treat covid-19 had no benefit and was linked to higher rates of death for Veterans Affairs patients hospitalized with the novel coronavirus, according to a study, raising further questions about the safety and efficacy of a treatment that has seen widespread use in the pandemic.

The study by VA and academic researchers analyzed outcomes of 368 male patients nationwide, with 97 receiving hydroxychloroquine, 113 receiving hydroxychloroquine in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin, and 158 not receiving any hydroxychloroquine.

Rates of death in the groups treated with the drugs were worse than those who did not receive the drugs, the study found. Rates of patients on ventilators were roughly equal, with no benefit demonstrated by the drugs....

There would be no reason for the scientists and doctors at the Veterans' Administration to lie. Their research shows there is no measurable effect to hydroxychloroquine in regard to COVID-19. Logic only can follow the idea that the VA, a government agency responsible for veteran soldiers' health in this country would be delighted to share super good information about an effective treatment against a deadly virus. They would be delighted to make the president happy with them. Fortunately, the VA is more interested in facts rather than an alternative reality. 

The president of the United States of America has a mental health problem. 

Anyone want to talk about the exciting news of gravity waves being sucked into Antarctica? 

Seriously.

Now that sounds crazy, doesn't it? Right? I must be crazy. Actually, I was trying to come up with the words to explain this to the readers of this blog, but, struggled in making it simple enough. But, there is such a thing discovered and it is really exciting.

Don't believe me do you?

Sounds crazy, doesn't it?

It is a breakthrough in understanding the "hot spot" in Antarctica.

May 12, 2020
By Eric Hand

The Southern Ocean (click here) is famously stormy, home to waves taller than telephone poles. Yet 50 kilometers overhead, the weather is just as tempestuous, if less obviously so. Powerful waves in the air break and crash, dumping energy into the stratosphere and disrupting winds that help control the climate.

For about 2 decades, researchers have known that a region near 60° South, along the Drake Passage between the tip of South America and Antarctica, is the planet’s hot spot for these so-called gravity waves. They have long suspected that the waves (not to be confused with the gravitational waves rippling through space) are launched by the mountains of the southern Andes and the Antarctic Peninsula, which jut thousands of meters into westerly winds. But puzzlingly, the hot spot lies hundreds of kilometers away from the mountains. Now, a high-altitude aircraft has traced newborn gravity waves rising from the mountains and bending, or refracting, toward that hot spot....

October 11, 2017
By Simon Thomas

Depends what you mean by risky (or financial instrument which is rather broad). (click here)

You have funky things like target redemption notes (TARNs) which I have seen a Singapore bank try and sell retail which appear to pay a decent annual rate and redeem in a couple of years but can effectively turn into a zero coupon perpetual note…. The one they suggested had an inverse rate reference as well just to be even more stupid for your grandma to buy. There is probably a max maturity but still. On that point there are a few things such as dual currency deposits (which are really you selling the bank options) where you sell the bank vol cheaply without knowing it....

See in third paragraph below the link immediately below:

One of the top priorities of the Administration (click here)...

Under Trump’s Executive Order 13771 (click here) on "Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs," the administration directed executive branch agencies to eliminate least two regulations for every significant new one added, and keep net new costs at zero.Trump’s emphasis on regulatory liberalization and cutting the number of rules and regulations has made the Agenda a more important gauge....

CDFs (click here) are the most important focus for Congress right now. Mnuchin is ineffective in his decision making when it comes to understanding and addressing the communities supporting THE WELLNESS of Americans.

Huawei (click here)

Last Update 3/9/2020 (click here)

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (click here) made two significant changes to the way business losses were handled.

...The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, (s.2155) (click here)

Continued in the entry below, thank you.

Continued from above entry - thank you.

On April 30, 2020 (click here)

Main Street Facility (click here)

PPP (Paycheck Protection Plan) (click here)




'Junk Bonds (click here)

August 18, 2019
By Sham Gad

It was Friday night on August 11, 2011 (click here) 

The fund invests at least 80 percent (click here) 

New Legislative Focus

The FDA needs a new classification for medications over 50 years old. Drugs like hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) and pemoline (Cylert) have outlived their sincere usefulness and have better options. These drugs can be considered to be rough cut medications and have dangerous side effects that manifest in most if, not all cases. 

It isn't to say these medications cannot be prescribed, quite the contrary, there are medications such as digoxin that are invaluable and have few side effects so much as beneficial effects. However, there are many medications in that group that need to be prescribed with caution and should be a second choice if there is another beneficial effect vs. dangerous side effects.

The older drugs need to be reviewed and placed in an assessment that demands caution when prescribing and a review of patient side effects that are life-changing vs. effectiveness. Patients, at times, in a short-sighted view of life, will seek treatment for relief of some symptoms and do not care to understand the long view of side effects. There are times when living and coping with symptoms is a wise decision when it comes to added years of longevity without severe complications.

The American Medical Association would add valuable input to such decisions.