Mar 17

Mar 17 3/15/2023

…My BFF & I are perturbed about this banking situation. She’s from a banking family. …She believes banking should be boring & says her dad cried when the Glass–Steagall law was repealed in 1999. How did you vote on that one?

Mar 14

Mar 14 3/14/2023

RCA

…Please reconsider selling submarines to Australia. The executives at General Dynamics must be thrilled. At $2.8 billion a pop, they can make some nice profits from that sale. …

Mar 14

Mar 14 3/12/2023

RCA

…“A Silent Sangha? Buddhist Monks in Post-coup Myanmar.” It included the idea that we are seeing “a break from the past, when monks played a significant and vocal role at moments of political crisis (making) room for youth – particularly young women – to take on prominent roles in the struggle.”

Mar 14

Mar 14 3/11/2023

RCA

…Is the WP accurate in reporting you had a good meeting with Ursula von der Leyen yesterday?…

Mar 14

Mar 14 3/10/2023

RCA

…So, all the press on your $6.8 trillion government spending plan, $31.4 trillion debt, etc., is not my favorite topic, but it is inescapable. I’m grateful that you have some brilliant Black women working on this with you. It’s too bad that Cecilia Rouse is returning to Princeton sometime soon. Luckily, Shalanda Young remains….

Mar 9

Mar 9 3/9/2023

RCA

…tell folks about Fiscal Ship, a new game developed by the Brookings Institution & the Serious Games Initiative. Players choose the changes they want in federal policy & see how the changes affect the bottom line….

Mar 8

Mar 8 3/8/2023

RCA

…Poor financial literacy may bring us all down as most Americans also do not understand that Social Security is unsustainable in a country of baby-boomers. When you are 92, Social Security’s main trust fund will run out of $$ because we’ll have too many elderly folk getting benefits & not enough younger folk paying into the system. …

Mar 6

Mar 6 3/6/2023

RCA

…please help the Rohingya refugees who have just been burned out of their homes in Balukhali camp in Cox Bazar. Their shelters were minimal, but to lose that shred of privacy & security must be devastating….

Mar 4

Mar 4 3/4/2023

RCA

…$125 Million? Can you find that in the budget somewhere to help the Rohingya living in Bangladesh refugee camps? The UN needs $ so folks can eat….

Mar 3

Mar 3 3/3/2023

RCA

…I hope that Paris Davis enjoys his moment in the spotlight when you award him with the Medal of Honor today. … greatly appreciated his observation, "America can heal you, if you allow America and give it the time to do so, it will do it in spades."…

Mar 2 3/2/2023

RCA

…Take teak, for example. I just read about how folks who build decks for yachts are advertising themselves as “socially responsible” when they are importing Burmese teak….they are pretending that their teak purchases are NOT benefitting the junta. This self-deception harms us all…

Mar 1

Mar 1 3/1/2023

RCA

…I hope that Julie Su’s nomination to become your Sec of Labor goes well. Her pro-union stance may be a bit radical but hopefully the GOP will be impressed with her 2001 MacArther genius grant…

Feb 28

Feb 28 2/28/2023

RCA

…Kamaria Braye, reporting on WAVY, Channel 10, speculates that you are visiting VA Beach today to announce your candidacy. Apparently, the beach resort community is purple. My sister lives there, but don’t expect her to attend your event….

Feb 27

Feb 27 2/27/2023

RCA

…Please thank the folks at the USCIRF for including Kachin Christian leader Reverend Hkalam Samson on their list of folks being detained for their religious beliefs….

Feb 26

Feb 26 2/26/2023

RCA

..My read of Roger Cohen is that he believes war is inevitable, that there are good guys & bad guys & military spending is the answer. I have had enough of that mentality & am sorry that the NYT put his article at the top of their webpage….