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Data doesn’t speak for itself

Trade deficits should not only look physical items on store shelves or parts and materials needed to make goods. How do deficits or surpluses look when the USA looks at trade in services with other countries?

www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/ranked-am...
Ranked: America’s Services Trade Balances
America's goods trade deficits have dominated headlines, but a critical part of the equation is being ignored: services trade.
www.visualcapitalist.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Data doesn’t speak for itself.

We are surrounded by NOISE, a small subset breaks through to be DATA. Data however doesn’t speak for itself. It needs expertise in curation, sorting, analysis, to become INFORMATION. AI might help here,…
April 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Why do we have our own opinions and not others opinions?

A Highschool math teacher told us he was never wrong. We blinked in disbelief having just seen him do the math wrong. He explained that he knew he was right and when he accepted our pointing out his error, he was right again.
April 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Constitution of the United States.

And today especially the First amendment, Fifth amendment.

Please stand up for rule of law?
April 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
How is that we see the splinter in others eyes yet do not notice the plank in our own?
Everytime you point a finger at a failing in others you should examine the three pointing back at your failings. We see in others the worst in ourselves.
April 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The history of the USA and aid provided to other countries in the Magnus Swenson piece is interesting standing in contrast to the pulling away from the Wisconsin Plan and humanitarian ethics.
March 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Context on Elon Musk funding Brad Schimel to ensure a GOP majority in Wisconsin Supreme Court race
February 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
www.linkedin.com/posts/klaus-...

Let’s hope that more people think and act to make these non-zero possibilities not come to pass.
Klaus Mager on LinkedIn: Preparing for Potential Government Disruptions: What You Need to Know and…
There is a non-zero possibility that this administration will escalate its attack on our institutions and sideline any opposition. Congress faces an impasse…
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February 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
If you are interested in food for peace and the farmers and businesses in US that work in these vital nutrition products.

amo.house.gov/news/boston-...
Boston Globe: USAID provides $200m to help starving children with food from R.I. and Ga. plants
PROVIDENCE — The US Agency for International Development will use $200 million in federal funds to ramp up production of a peanut-based paste made in Rhode Island and deliver it to starving children i...
amo.house.gov
February 6, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The founders did foresee the executive branch overstepping, but it seems they didn’t foresee the congress and judiciary willingly give up their constitutional authority.
February 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The United States constitution on which oaths are sworn to uphold requires the executive branch to faithfully execute the laws deliberated by congress signed by whom ever is or was president and are held to be constitutional by the judiciary.
February 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM