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USTR Releases 2025 National Trade Estimate Report
The NTE is an annual report detailing foreign trade barriers faced by U.S. exporters and USTR’s efforts to reduce those barriers.

https://ustr.gov/about/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2025/march/ustr-releases-2025-national-trade-estimate-report

Kyle

Good Stuff. UR Really Good at finding these Nuggets. Much Appreciated. Thanks.

Bill Cara

Another day, another hospital visit.

Today was medical imaging, thyroid. The last was in a private clinic, which took 36 pictures. The family doctor then sent me to an ENT thyroid specialist who cautioned me on what he saw but also didn’t like the picture quality, so he sent me today to what he said is the best thyroid place in the country. Same hospital where 12 months ago my surgeon said my skin cancer was too difficult for her to do it. That from a surgeon who removed two melanomas and various lesser carcinomas. She said that was the best head skin cancer place in the country. So today, 74 pictures, and a 20-minute wait followed by more pictures. The report will be ready later today. I’m thinking of booking an office suite there.

Bill Cara

SUCCESS.

Two and a half hours after I had my procedure today, I received a copy of the radiologist report sent to the ENT and my family doctor. No further assessment for 3 months.

it’s amazing to me that shortly after getting home, I receive an electronic copy of the assessment. Not being a medical doctor, the terminology is over my head but I can read between the lines that nothing is urgently needed. Now I can relax.

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Student loans and credit scores….admitting data over the last 5 years was fake:

The 2020 forbearance marked all delinquent (but not defaulted) loans as current, causing a jump of 74 points, from 501 to 575, in the median score between 2019:Q4 and 2020:Q4 for those borrowers who were previously delinquent but not defaulted. Since then, scores continued to rise for previously delinquent borrowers (as their negative remarks aged) while scores for previously current borrowers remained relatively flat.
Defaulted borrowers saw a gradual rise in credit scores as their negative marks aged and as some borrowers voluntarily rehabilitated their defaulted loans. 

However, in the fourth quarter of 2022, the Fresh Start program marked all defaulted loans as current, increasing the median score for those with a default in 2019 by 44 points, from 564 in 2022:Q1 to 608 in 2023:Q1. By the end of 2024, those borrowers with loans in delinquency or in default saw scores that were 103 and 72 points higher, respectively, than at the end of 2019.

and now?
*****Given these estimates, we expect to see more than nine million student loan borrowers face substantial declines in credit standing over the first quarter of 2025.

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/03/credit-score-impacts-from-past-due-student-loan-payments/

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“The private equity industry directly employed 13.3 million workers in 2024, an increase from 12 million in 2022.”https://www.investmentcouncil.org/new-ey-report-shows-private-equity-strengthens-u-s-economy-with-more-jobs-higher-pay-and-increased-investment/

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Maria Bartiromo interviews National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett and the intent of the upcoming April 2nd ‘liberation day’ tariffs.

https://twitter.com/SundayFutures/status/1906365713654137102

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Data Says We Haven’t Had a Recession: Mike Green on the Hidden Metrics That Tell a Different Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBDOU6Btwtc

goldbug58

Keep hearing that “America asked for this” or “America voted for this”.

The popular vote was:
Trump/Vance 77,303,568 49.81%
Harris/Walz 75,019,230 48.34%

Not exactly what I would call a landslide.

Watched all summer last year as 10s of 000s streamed across the US/Mexico border. Shipped to so-called “sanctuary” cities. Where they were supplied with hotel rooms, food, clothing, cell phones, in some cases debit cards.

Americans were, in that regard, fed up with it, rightly so. That is what opened the door to Trump. Not trade, not the economy, the war in Ukraine, nothing else.

Harris did not win a single swing state. Not one.

In the long run it may not matter. The American empire was, and is, on its last legs. No empire lasts forever. I did not think it meant surrendering Democratic principals, overriding the Constitution and the rule of law, but here we are.

You cannot purchase a firearm in most blue states. In red states you walk in with a driver’s license and walk out with a personal armory. If it comes down to red vs. blue, you already know the outcome.

Kyle

These next 4 years are gonna’ be so lit.

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The Roadmap:

Stephen Miran: President Trump’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

“A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System”

https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf

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Kyle

Good Stuff — Good Post — Thanks!!!

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New York Fed is doing a series on student loans delinquency.

A New Student Loan Delinquency Can Reduce Credit Scores by More than 150 Points 

https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/03/credit-score-impacts-from-past-due-student-loan-payments/

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@BretBaier interview of Elon Musk and DOGE team members

Remarkable group of highly intelligent Americans sharing stories of inefficiency and waste of our tax money.

https://x.com/BretBaier/status/1905393918977393099

Kyle

YES It was an Excellent Interview. They should do that every 2-3 months to update people.

goldbug58

Thailand 7.7 magnitude earthquake earlier today. At least one skyscraper collapsed, in another, a pool on the rooftop sloshed its water over the side. Scary.

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Danielle DiMartino Booth: We are looking at a North American continent already in recession

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3UYhcHu-Go

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Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model
Gemini 2.5 is a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems. Our first 2.5 model, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, leads common benchmarks by meaningful margins and showcases strong reasoning and code capabilities.

https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-thinking-updates-march-2025/

http://www.ai.dev

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Germany ‘continuing’ with F-35 fighter jets order despite concerns about over-reliance on US

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/germany-continuing-with-us-f-35-fighter-jets-order-despite-concerns

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The Black Sea grain deal:

The United States will help restore Russia’s access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, lower maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems for such transactions.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/outcomes-of-the-united-states-and-russia-expert-groups-on-the-black-sea/

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Exxon is comfortable with prices at $50/barrel and plans to pump more oil “no matter where prices go.” (Oilprice.com)

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Doomberg: Geopolitics, Debt, and Big Promises. How Trump is Reshuffling the World Order

Trump’s presidency, national debt challenges, energy policy, and global geopolitical dynamics.

Back in December, Doomberg described how Trump is serving the interests of the globalists and would work to install Mark Carny as Prime Minister. ( at 29:19 on the video )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2agAGd0NHsE

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Google plans to release new ‘open’ AI models for drug discovery 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/google-plans-to-release-new-open-ai-models-for-drug-discovery/

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Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472068-revealed-how-the-uk-tech-secretary-uses-chatgpt-for-po

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The corruption and waste is so unbelievable…

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) occupied a nine-story office tower on D.C.’s K Street for only 60 employees, many of whom actually worked from home, prior to the pandemic. Its managers had luxury suites with full bathrooms; one manager would often be “in the shower” when she was needed, while another used her bathroom as a cigarette lounge. FMCS recorded its director as being on a years-long business trip to D.C. so he could have all of his meals and living expenses covered by taxpayers, simply for showing up to the office.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/fmcs-slush-fund-abolished-by-trump

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Kyle

This right here is why so many of us Voted for Trump. Was this the guy they had to call in the SWAT team on because he barricaded himself in his office and wouldn’t leave or was the SWAT team story over at CIA??? I can’t keep up.

I want Trump to do to the USG EXACTLY what Lou Gerstner did to IBM back in the 1990’s — Namely Take a Blow-Torch and Put it UP EVERY ORIFICE that the USG has and BLOW It OUT. You Have NO IDEA the Amount of RAW ANGER out in these USA. LFG!!!!!!

Nice capture of the current news!!!!

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Gold new highs on extremely low volume

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