John Lounsbury
@jlounsbury59
1st career tech - IBM (Ph.D Quantum Chem) 2nd career financial planning 3rd career online publishing (Global Econ Intersection) Always doing what interests me.
Founders Retire. GEI Transferred To New Owner econintersect.com/pages/contribu… Steven Hansen @the_hand and John Lounsbury @jlounsbury59 haven't really retired - just moved on to new ventures. Thanks to all readers over the last 11 years. Picture from the old GEI office after we left:
Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.
Very few people will show up for a rally to save this version of democracy. It’s corrupt and works for elites not the common good. So we need to fight to unrig our democracy - get big money out, shatter corporate influence, elevate regular people’s voices.
MAGA IS COMPLICIT! "Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't. 'Obama Judge' releases DOJ docs? He's targeting Trump. Doesn't? Dems get blamed. MAGA buys anything GOP sells. One day, they'll see they voted for a disgraceful president and spent years pointing fingers.
Is there any legitimate law enforcement reason for DOJ to interview Ghislaine Maxwell now? Or is this just a prelude to some “exoneration” of Trump? nytimes.com/live/2025/07/2…
🚨GHISLAINE MAXWELL GETS A PRIVATE MEETING WITH DEPUTY AG - PAM BONDI IS OUT WITH A “SUDDEN MEDICAL EMERGENCY” Epstein’s top accomplice is getting face time with Deputy AG Todd Blanche behind closed doors, no press, no oversight. Bondi’s gone. Blanche steps in. What deal is…
Trump: "I wish Ghislaine Maxwell well." Jonathan Swan: "She's a child sex trafficker." Trump: "Big deal... I do, I wish her well." And yet, not one word of sympathy for the child victims, of which two are now dead — one from suicide. Trump is a monster.
WATCH: “I asked you a very direct question. I didn’t hear a yes or no.” Trump’s FCC chair stooge @BrendanCarrFCC won’t say if Trump got Colbert cancelled, instead dutifully strokes Dear Leader’s ego
Every word out of the mouth is spot on and it’s damn scary.
July 1: Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's personal lawsuit against CBS. July 22: Trump and Paramount dismiss the case, formalizing the settlement. July 24: Trump-appointed FCC approves $8 billion Paramount merger. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/bus…
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark, says his brother forwarded him the interview he did with Steve Bannon, in which Jeffrey says he stopped hanging with Trump “when he realized Trump was a crook.”Not the other way around, as Trump has claimed many times.
Longtime disability recipients in the US are now being abruptly kicked off the program
NEW: We went to a small Texas town where one Bitcoin mining facility uses as much power as the entire city of Austin. Everyone is town is affected by the constant noise from the crypto facility, even the animals. One resident told us: "Every person here is sick."
Habba set to remain top federal prosecutor in New Jersey despite ouster by judges thehill.com/regulation/cou…
“Today would be a good day to seize $300 billion in Russian assets and give it to Ukraine.” -Garry Kasparova
"In 2020, the govt cited Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the govt's control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help Trump out of this jam" publicnotice.co/p/trump-ghisla…