Trumpenomics
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I'm guessing the one word was actually 'knobhead'.
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https://fortune.com/2025/10/04/president-trump-coin-america-anniversary-likeness-law-treasury/
the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, which Trump signed in January 2021, states: “No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of specified coins,” which include the semiquincentennial series among others.
This rule has appeared in similar statutes and reaches back to longstanding Treasury practice, though historians note an exception: Calvin Coolidge, who appeared on a commemorative half-dollar while still in office in 1926. Since then, the Mint and the Treasury Department have strictly avoided living subjects—until now. -
Federal government bailout coming for the farmers, again:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/us/politics/trump-farmers-aid-china-trade-war.html
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Government subsidy (bailout by a different name) for farmers has been going on for years, decades, etc.
for example,
Ethanol
paying farmers not to plant
crop insurance
etcI am actually in favor most of these, but to say that President Trump is doing something different is not really true.
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I find it very Clintonian.
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Anecdotal… Through 3 quarters, we are up about 5% over last year. Over the past 6 weeks, we’ve had the three best Costco events that we’ve had in several years, and this is with a very limited item list that excludes Clavinovas under $5K.
Which oddly fits with what we’re seeing in the stores. The mid price points has slowed, but the upper end sales and lower end sales have risen drastically. I think the customers that would have bought $4K Clavs are buying $2K Clavs. That’s easy to see… And I can understand the high end sales not being as seriously impacted as well, but the very odd thing is the rise of the upper tier vertical pianos… I’ve sold more Yamaha YUS5s, Bechstein A6s, and Seiler 132s than I have U1s over the last few months. It’s very odd.
