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Glad I Didn’t Say That! Did Yellen Just Swing and Miss on China?

20 Thursday Apr 2023

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Biden adminstration, China, Glad I Didn't Say That!, Janet Yellen, Xi JInPing

“Yellen Calls for ‘Constructive’ China Relationship. The Treasury secretary struck a more conciliatory note in a speech Thursday.”

– New York Times headline, April 20, 2023

“As Xi Befriends World Leaders, He Hardens His Stance on the U.S.”

– New York Times headline, April 20, 2023

(Sources: “Yellen Calls for ‘Constructive’ China Relationship,” by Ana Swanson, The New York Times, April 20, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/business/economy/yellen-us-china-relationship.html and “As Xi Befriends World Leaders, He Hardens His Stance on the U.S.” by David Pierson, Ibid., April 20, 2023)

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Glad I Didn’t Say That! The U.S. Is and Isn’t America First-y on Green Energy Subsidies

11 Saturday Mar 2023

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“We don’t want to see any trade rivalry. And we’re in discussion with our [European Union] counterparts about how to make sure we can [build clean energy supply chains] in a way that lifts all.”

–U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Grandholm, March 9, 2023

 

“We make no apologies for the fact that American taxpayer dollars ought to go to American [clean energy] investments and American jobs.”

– White House Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation John Podesta, February 24, 2023

 

(Sources: “US energy secretary offers olive branch to EU in green subsidies row,” by Derek Brower, Financial Times, March 10, 2023, US energy secretary offers olive branch to EU in green subsidies row | Financial Times (ft.com) and “US makes ‘no apologies’ for prioritising American jobs, clean energy tsar tells EU,” by Aime Williams and Derek Brower, Financial Times, February 24, 2023, US makes ‘no apologies’ for prioritising American jobs, clean energy tsar tells EU | Financial Times (ft.com) )

Glad I Didn’t Say That! Germany Dodges Biden Bullet (Or Did It?)

03 Friday Mar 2023

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allies, Biden, economic aid, geopolitics, Germany, Glad I Didn't Say That!, miitary aid, Olaf Scholz, Ukraine, Ukraine War

“German Chancellor Set for Heat From Biden Over Ukraine Ammunition Supplies: What to Watch”

—Bloomberg.com, March 3, 2023, 12:01 AM EST

 

“Biden Lauds Germany’s Military Aid to Ukraine in Scholz Meeting”

– Bloomberg.com, March 3, 2023, 3:17 PM EST

 

(Sources: “German Chancellor Set for Heat From Biden Over Ukraine Ammunition Supplies: What to Watch,” by Arne Delfs and Michael Niemaber, Bloomberg.com, March 3, 2023, Biden Ukraine Talks With Scholz on Ammunition, China: What to Watch – Bloomberg and “Biden Lauds Germany’s Military Aid to Ukraine in Scholz Meeting,”by Justin Sink and Akayla Gardner, Bloomberg.com, March 2, 2023, Biden Lauds Germany’s Military Aid to Ukraine in Scholz Meeting – Bloomberg)

Glad I Didn’t Say That! Democrats Play the Race Card in the Monterey Park Shooting — Of Course

23 Monday Jan 2023

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Adam Schiff, Asian-Americans, bigotry, Chuck Schumer, Democrats, Glad I Didn't Say That!, identity politics, Monterey Park shooting, prejudice

“I’m praying for the victims [of the January 21 shootings in largely Asian-American Monterey Park, California], their families, the 1st responders We must stand up to bigotry and hate wherever they rear their ugly heads, and we must keep working to stop gun violence.”

–Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), January 22, 2023

 

The Monterey Park shooting was  “A horrific example of needless gun violence. With bigotry toward AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) individuals as a possible motive.” 

– Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Cal), January 22, 2023

 

Identity of the only suspect in the Monterey Park shooting: Chinese-American

 

(Sources: @SenSchumer, Twitter.com, January 21, 2023, (1) Chuck Schumer on Twitter: “I’m heartbroken by the news of the shooting in Monterey Park amid Lunar New Year celebrations I’m praying for the victims, their families, the 1st responders We must stand up to bigotry and hate wherever they rear their ugly heads, and we must keep working to stop gun violence” / Twitter; @RepAdamSchiff, Twitter.com, January 22, 2023, (1) Adam Schiff on Twitter: “Ten dead in Monterey Park. I am sickened. A horrific example of needless gun violence. With bigotry toward AAPI individuals as a possible motive. The families are in my prayers as we seek information by law enforcement. We’ll never quit demanding real action on gun safety.” / Twitter; and “What we know about the suspect in the Monterey Park massacre,” by Nouran Salahieh, Jeffrey Winter, Casey Tolan, and Scott Glover, CNN.com, January 23, 2023, Huu Can Tran: What we know about the suspect in the Monterey Park massacre | CNN . H/T to “Schumer, Schiff, other liberals blame Monterey Park shooting on ‘bigotry’ before facts come out,” by Bradford Betz, FoxNews.com, January 22, 2023, Schumer, Schiff, other liberals blame Monterey Park shooting on ‘bigotry’ before facts come out | Fox News)

Glad I Didn’t Say That! A New Low Point for Biden Energy Policy

11 Sunday Dec 2022

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Amos Hochstein, Biden administration, clean energy, climate change, energy, fossil fuels, Glad I Didn't Say That!, green energy, natural gas, oil, Russia, sanctions, shale, Ukraine, Ukraine War

“The White House’s chief energy adviser has described as ‘un-American’ the refusal of US shale investors to ramp up drilling, even as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine causes havoc on global oil and gas markets.”                                                      – — — —

Financial Times, December 11, 2022

 

“The longer-term solution, [he said] was not to invest in more natural gas supply but to cut consumption of fossil fuels themselves….”             

Financial Times, December 11, 2022

 

(Source: “Biden adviser calls Wall Street opposition to shale drilling ‘un-American’,” by Derek Brower, Financial Times, December 11, 2022, Biden adviser calls Wall Street opposition to shale drilling ‘un-American’ | Financial Times (ft.com))

Glad I Didn’t Say That: Nothing to See About Border Security and the Fentanyl Epidemic?

29 Saturday Oct 2022

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Associated Press, Biden border crisis, border security, drugs, fetanyl, Glad I Didn't Say That!, Immigration, Mainstream Media, Mexico, national security, opioids, public health

”Advocates warn that some of the alarms [about fentanyl] being sounded by politicians and officials are wrong and potentially dangerous. Among those ideas: that tightening control of the U.S.-Mexico border would stop the flow of the drugs….”

– Associated Press, October 28, 2022

 

“A report this year from a bipartisan federal commission found that fentanyl and similar drugs are being made mostly in labs in Mexico from chemicals shipped primarily from China.”

-Associated Press, October 28, 2022

 

(Sources: “As fentanyl drives overdose deaths, mistaken beliefs persist,” by Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press, October 28, 2022, As fentanyl drives overdose deaths, mistaken beliefs persist | AP News)

Glad I Didn’t Say That! Biden Was Wrong From the Start on Inflation

14 Friday Oct 2022

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“Americans are squeezed by the cost of living: that’s been true for years, and they didn’t need today’s report to tell them that.  It’s a key reason I ran for President.”

– President Biden, October 13, 2022

 

Annual U.S. inflation rate* the month President Biden declared his candidacy for the White House (April, 2019): 1.88 percent

Latest annual U.S. inflation rate*: 8.22 percent

 

*Headline Consumer Price Index (CPI)

(Source: “Statement by President Joe Biden on the September Consumer Price Index Report,” Briefing Room, Statements and releases, The White House, October 13, 2022, Statement by President Joe Biden on the September Consumer Price Index Report | The White House; Seasonally Adjusted, CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), Multi-Screen, Data Retrieval Tools, Data Tools, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv?cu; and “Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for President, After Months of Hesitation,” by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, The New York Times, Apil 25, 2019, Joe Biden Announces 2020 Run for President, After Months of Hesitation – The New York Times (nytimes.com))

Glad I Didn’t Say That! Energy Security One Tanker at a Time

25 Sunday Sep 2022

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energy, energy crisis, energy prices, Germany, Glad I Didn't Say That!, inflation, natural gas, Olaf Scholz, Persian Gulf, Ukraine, Ukraine War

”Germany secures more gas shipments as [Chancellor Olaf] Scholz visits [Persian] Gulf”

 —Associated Press, September 25, 2022

Number of gas shipments Scholz has secured during his visit to the Persian Gulf: 1

–Bloomberg.com, September 25, 2022

 

(Sources: “Germany secures more gas shipments as Scholz visits Gulf,” by Frank Jordan, Associated Press, September 25, 2022, https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-boris-johnson-united-arab-emirates-germany-b2ff121c9b7e3931ab3c89acdf76beaa and “Germany Secures Just One Tanker of Gas During Scholz’s Gulf Tour,” by Birgit Jennen and Omar Tamo,” Bloomberg.com, September 25, 2022, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-25/germany-nabs-uae-gas-deal-as-energy-squeeze-tightens?srnd=premium&leadSource=uverify%20wall)

Glad I Didn’t Say That! The Latest Mainstream Media Misinformation on Manufacturing

09 Friday Sep 2022

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Catherine Rampell, Glad I Didn't Say That!, Jobs, Mainstream Media, manufacturing, manufacturing production, productivity, Washington Post

“Contrary to myths that we’ve stopped ‘making’ things in the United States, we already manufacture a lot of stuff here. In fact, we manufacture nearly the most ‘stuff’ on record, as measured by the inflation-adjusted value of those products. We just happen to make that stuff with fewer workers than we used to, because technological advances have led to huge productivity gains.”

– Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, September 8, 2022

U.S. manufacturing labor productivity since peak*: +4.00%

U.S. manufacturing employment since then: -7.18%

U.S. after-inflation manufacturing production since then: -3.58%

*December, 2007

(Sources: “The myth of the manufacturing comeback,” by Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, September 8, 2022, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/08/biden-manufacturing-made-america/; “Labor productivity (output per hour),” Series Id: PRS 30006093, Major Sector Productivity and Costs, Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject, Data Tools, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet; “All employees, thousands, manufacturing, seasonally adjusted,” Series Id: CES3000000001, Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National), Ibid.; & “Industrial Production, Seasonally Adjusted,” Data for Tables 1, 2, and 10 (to July 2022), Industrial Production: Market, Industry Groups, and Individual Series, Historical Data: Tables 1, 2, and 10, Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization – G.17, Data, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/ipdisk/ip_sa.txt)

Glad I Didn’t Say That! Fake News About U.S. Gas Guzzling

29 Friday Jul 2022

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conservation, energy, Financal Times, fossil fuels, fuel efficiency, gasoline, Glad I Didn't Say That!, Myles McCormick

“While Europeans learn energy frugality, Americans stick to petrol-guzzling.”

– Myles McCormick, Financial Times, July 27,2022

 

Post-1965 peak US gasoline consumption per person: 505 gallons (1978)

U.S. gasoline consumption per person, 2019*: 414 gallons

*Final pre-CCP full year

 

“While Europeans learn energy frugality, Americans stick to petrol-guzzling,” by Myles McCormick, Financial Times, July 27, 2022, https://www.ft.com/content/ed785094-ddc0-4e60-8ab4-fa244e0249a3 and “Gasoline consumption per capita in 2020 was on par with that in 1965,” by Michael Sivak, Green Car Congress, December 8, 2021, https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/12/20211208-sivak.html)

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