FiveAcres
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Messing around with arts and crafts supplies for three decades.
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This is Taco. He is the most relaxed little guy in the world. Mostly because he does not know about emails or the economy, but shoulder rubs help too. 13/10 (IG: tacofoxyhuahua)
July 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is Taco. He is the most relaxed little guy in the world. Mostly because he does not know about emails or the economy, but shoulder rubs help too. 13/10 (IG: tacofoxyhuahua)
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June 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Watch me scramble in real time as I try to find the economic angle on the Musk-Trump tiff.
(I think I found one, and the issues it highlights are terrifyingly important.)
(I think I found one, and the issues it highlights are terrifyingly important.)
June 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Watch me scramble in real time as I try to find the economic angle on the Musk-Trump tiff.
(I think I found one, and the issues it highlights are terrifyingly important.)
(I think I found one, and the issues it highlights are terrifyingly important.)
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“.. Xi feels empowered to harden his position from Trump’s first term. The arsenal of trade tools China has built .. including export controls of critical materials .. gives it the ability to cause the U.S. real pain.”
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June 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
“.. Xi feels empowered to harden his position from Trump’s first term. The arsenal of trade tools China has built .. including export controls of critical materials .. gives it the ability to cause the U.S. real pain.”
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I will not take your spammy call
I will not pick it up at all
Your number is not familiar to me
Don't know if I trust you, can't you see?
Cold calling is dead and gone
Might as well leave flyers on my lawn
You'd have better luck spamming me
By putting ads on my Windows PC
#poem (human poem)
I will not pick it up at all
Your number is not familiar to me
Don't know if I trust you, can't you see?
Cold calling is dead and gone
Might as well leave flyers on my lawn
You'd have better luck spamming me
By putting ads on my Windows PC
#poem (human poem)
May 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I will not take your spammy call
I will not pick it up at all
Your number is not familiar to me
Don't know if I trust you, can't you see?
Cold calling is dead and gone
Might as well leave flyers on my lawn
You'd have better luck spamming me
By putting ads on my Windows PC
#poem (human poem)
I will not pick it up at all
Your number is not familiar to me
Don't know if I trust you, can't you see?
Cold calling is dead and gone
Might as well leave flyers on my lawn
You'd have better luck spamming me
By putting ads on my Windows PC
#poem (human poem)
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Whatever's going on with Stephen Miller, his wife Katie Miller, and Elon Musk is between the three of them, Musk's army of baby mommas, their personal assistants, Trump admin staffers, various fertility professionals, high value donors, and the D.C. press corps.
It's really none of my business.
It's really none of my business.
May 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Whatever's going on with Stephen Miller, his wife Katie Miller, and Elon Musk is between the three of them, Musk's army of baby mommas, their personal assistants, Trump admin staffers, various fertility professionals, high value donors, and the D.C. press corps.
It's really none of my business.
It's really none of my business.
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Remember when Republicans fought central planning?
Now they’re applauding a president who tells Apple where to produce and Harvard who to hire.
They've trading in limited government for micromanagement, freedom for fealty, and market forces for Mar-A-Lago favors.
Now they’re applauding a president who tells Apple where to produce and Harvard who to hire.
They've trading in limited government for micromanagement, freedom for fealty, and market forces for Mar-A-Lago favors.
May 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Remember when Republicans fought central planning?
Now they’re applauding a president who tells Apple where to produce and Harvard who to hire.
They've trading in limited government for micromanagement, freedom for fealty, and market forces for Mar-A-Lago favors.
Now they’re applauding a president who tells Apple where to produce and Harvard who to hire.
They've trading in limited government for micromanagement, freedom for fealty, and market forces for Mar-A-Lago favors.
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Let's check in for an update on where we're at with 90 deals in 90 days.
May 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Let's check in for an update on where we're at with 90 deals in 90 days.
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How my dog Max is just like America's trade policy.
(And to state the obvious: The best strategy a dog is not the best strategy for an economy.)
(And to state the obvious: The best strategy a dog is not the best strategy for an economy.)
May 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
How my dog Max is just like America's trade policy.
(And to state the obvious: The best strategy a dog is not the best strategy for an economy.)
(And to state the obvious: The best strategy a dog is not the best strategy for an economy.)
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Business strategy in the Trump era: Don’t invest, don’t expand, just wait.
Because the only thing less predictable than a tariff… is the next one.
Because the only thing less predictable than a tariff… is the next one.
May 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Business strategy in the Trump era: Don’t invest, don’t expand, just wait.
Because the only thing less predictable than a tariff… is the next one.
Because the only thing less predictable than a tariff… is the next one.
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A quick update for those who may have been following the news regarding @peter.petermorwood.com 's passing: www.tumblr.com/dduane/78342...
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💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 21 · Just a local update · For those who'll be wanting to know how I'm doing: I think right now the line from The Right Stuff is probably apropos. I'm "maintaining an even strain."
I…
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May 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A quick update for those who may have been following the news regarding @peter.petermorwood.com 's passing: www.tumblr.com/dduane/78342...
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"Thrift Vintage Fashion reports rising sales, attributing the gains to tariff concerns driving consumers to secondhand options."
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Are We Entering the Golden Age of Secondhand Shopping?
First inflation, now tariffs: The resale economy is having a moment.
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May 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Thrift Vintage Fashion reports rising sales, attributing the gains to tariff concerns driving consumers to secondhand options."
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"It's basically collusion between the British prime minister and the American president to go out and each lie to their respective populations to pretend each had gotten something done with the other."
May 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"It's basically collusion between the British prime minister and the American president to go out and each lie to their respective populations to pretend each had gotten something done with the other."
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Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...
May 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...
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WSJ: Cadwalader’s pact with Trump “is backfiring, adding to an exodus of lawyers that has placed the firm on uncertain footing.”
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May 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
WSJ: Cadwalader’s pact with Trump “is backfiring, adding to an exodus of lawyers that has placed the firm on uncertain footing.”
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One of the nice things about appearing on Canadian TV is that we get to slow down and dig in for more than a soundbite. And so if you're trying to figure out how to make sense of the economic news from the past few days, this might be helpful: youtu.be/bWLMWRZPQaA?...
75% chance the U.S. economy is headed for a recession: economist | Power & Politics
New numbers out Wednesday show the U.S. economy shrank by 0.3 per cent in the first quarter of this year — something that hasn’t happened since the height of...
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May 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
One of the nice things about appearing on Canadian TV is that we get to slow down and dig in for more than a soundbite. And so if you're trying to figure out how to make sense of the economic news from the past few days, this might be helpful: youtu.be/bWLMWRZPQaA?...
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every time someone proposes “grow your own food” as a safety measure, a local tub of funfetti frosting becomes even more beautiful
May 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
every time someone proposes “grow your own food” as a safety measure, a local tub of funfetti frosting becomes even more beautiful
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The fact that the economy shrank in the first quarter has generated a lot of big headlines. I want to give a more nuanced interpretation, and perhaps make the case that there's less here than meets the eye. And lemme explain why this is a moment that will confound many of our economic statistics.
May 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The fact that the economy shrank in the first quarter has generated a lot of big headlines. I want to give a more nuanced interpretation, and perhaps make the case that there's less here than meets the eye. And lemme explain why this is a moment that will confound many of our economic statistics.
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McDonalds saying consumers are cutting back on breakfast is not an encouraging signal — because that daypart has historically been seen as a proxy for employment.
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May 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
McDonalds saying consumers are cutting back on breakfast is not an encouraging signal — because that daypart has historically been seen as a proxy for employment.
$MCD
$MCD
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(SCMP) - China will hold off on entering serious trade talks with the US while it waits to see which of Donald Trump’s advisers will have his ear and how other countries will respond to the 90-day pause on tariffs, according to sources.
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Exclusive | China waits to see which Trump adviser will come out on top on tariffs: sources
Beijing is holding off on trade talks to determine which way the wind blows in the divided White House, sources say.
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May 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
(SCMP) - China will hold off on entering serious trade talks with the US while it waits to see which of Donald Trump’s advisers will have his ear and how other countries will respond to the 90-day pause on tariffs, according to sources.
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The Port of Los Angeles is reporting 17 cancelled sailings for May, which represents about a 30% loss of containers.
June is already at 15%--I expect it'll rise as shipping lines find the demand isn't there.
June is already at 15%--I expect it'll rise as shipping lines find the demand isn't there.
April 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The Port of Los Angeles is reporting 17 cancelled sailings for May, which represents about a 30% loss of containers.
June is already at 15%--I expect it'll rise as shipping lines find the demand isn't there.
June is already at 15%--I expect it'll rise as shipping lines find the demand isn't there.
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Port of Los Angeles has had a surge of containers sitting on the docks because of the surge in frontrunning but is already beginning to work off the excess.
Expect it to fall a lot over the coming week.
Expect it to fall a lot over the coming week.
April 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Port of Los Angeles has had a surge of containers sitting on the docks because of the surge in frontrunning but is already beginning to work off the excess.
Expect it to fall a lot over the coming week.
Expect it to fall a lot over the coming week.
Google Finance has a nice page with a bird's eye view of various indexes. A lot of red ink at the moment. 4/30/2024 11:17 am EDT.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Google Finance has a nice page with a bird's eye view of various indexes. A lot of red ink at the moment. 4/30/2024 11:17 am EDT.
www.google.com/finance/mark...
www.google.com/finance/mark...
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If we had not instituted my policy recommendations, things would be looking great. So the policies are working
Peter Navarro on CNBC reacts to the shrinking GDP number by insisting it's actually good news because if you strip out the effect of tariffs "you have 3 percent growth. So we really like where we're at now."
April 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If we had not instituted my policy recommendations, things would be looking great. So the policies are working
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With @scalzi.com and others curating their spaces to encourage the use of alt text and other accessibility features, here’s a reminder about @veron4ica.com’s “capybara method” and other tools.
I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement
April 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
With @scalzi.com and others curating their spaces to encourage the use of alt text and other accessibility features, here’s a reminder about @veron4ica.com’s “capybara method” and other tools.