Mini Mike Offer

Seeing as how the Bloomberg campaign is now throwing money around, I have a proposal for them — for a million dollar donation to the Potts Family Foundation, I will refrain from publishing any more Bloomberg hit pieces on this blog. And, furthermore, for an equivalent amount in Bitcoin paid directly to me, I will herein offer six puff pieces between now and November.

So, dear reader, you can track my financial fortunes by what you soon read here about Mini Mike.

Headlines

Bumbling Congress gives Trump the budget freeze he wanted

Bitcoin sinks to lowest level since May, falling $3,000 in month as China accelerates crackdown

Supreme Court lets lawsuit by climate scientist continue against conservative outlets ...

DOD Chief fires Navy Secretary for ‘lack of candor’ on Gallagher case

‘The ultimate fighter’: Trump shows off Conan, the military dog from the Baghdadi raid

Ex-Trump aide who went to jail in Mueller probe is running for House seat vacated by Katie Hill

Biden’s senior Latina advisor quits in frustration ...

Schiff: Overwhelming evidence Trump sacrificed national security for personal gain

Democrats on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Elon Musk says Tesla has received 200,000 preorders for its Cybertruck after botched debut

Uber loses license to operate in London ...

Polls show 34 percent of black likely voters approve of Trump

Headlines

House Intel to work through recess on impeachment inquiry

White House deliberates block on all US investment in China

McConnell: If House acts, Senate must have trial ...

Senate ‘assault weapons’ has ban outlaws 205 guns

Audio of private meeting shows oil industry ripping into Trump administration

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Attorney General William Barr has ‘gone rogue’

13 House Dems don’t support [impeachment]!

John Kasich on Trump-Ukraine call: ‘Nobody talking about this’ in Ohio

Cuomo clarifies he supports impeachment inquiry after blaming ‘leftists’

Bitcoin nosedives 22% this week to lowest level since June

Epstein butler dishes on Paris pad guests including Bill Gates, Steve Bannon

Dam breaking? MSNBC says ‘Biden got a nice little deal for his boy’

Poll Dancer

A men’s club in Nantes, France is featuring a robot poll dancer ... see: Daily Mail Article for story and a brief video.

The question then poses itself: What do these female bots take off? A circuit board? Some wiring? And do entering patrons get a complementary screw driver and a wrench? And how do they entice these automatons into sexier moves? With some Bitcoins?

Headlines

Democrats want to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal. It’s not that simple

‘It never stops’: US farmers face extreme heat after floods and trade war

Military eyes 16year olds as ranks and candidates dwindle ...

Powerline blog: Ilhan Omar’s family faked asylum, married brother

RNC more than doubles DNC’s fundraising in June

Silver had its best week since 2016 but gold or Bitcoin are better bets, traders say

President tells aids to look for big spending cuts in ‘second term’ ...

Twitter suspends Angel Mom for posting about illegal immigration

Citing discrimination, HUD denies L.A. $80M

Iran denies that the second British ship was seized

Pew: 91% Dems see violence coming ...

Drug overdose deaths fall in U.S. for first time in over 30 years

Headlines

Agriculture Department buries studies showing dangers of climate change

Beijing wants US to stop ‘inappropriate’ actions against Chinese firms

Debate week: Dems pounce on ‘erratic’ Trump

Pete Buttigieg faces angry town hall after police shooting

Turkish leader’s party losing Istanbul election

Trump says he never threatened to demote Fed Chair Powell, but he has the ‘right’ to do so

Bernie to propose canceling entire $1.6 trillion in student loan debt ...

Donald Trump backs down on deportation threat

‘Snow job’: Palestinians reject economic portion of White House peace plan

Bitcoin soars above $11,000 for the first time in 15 months — now up 170% for the year

HACK THAT: US strikes Iran military computers ...

New Zealand: Govt won’t pay full price for banned guns

Headlines

Populist tide rises but fails to flood European Union

US takes aim at Chinese surveillance as trade war becomes tech war

Netanyahu struggles to form government amid talk of new election ...

Donald Trump needles ‘Swampman’ Joe Biden

North Korea calls Bolton ‘a defective human product’

Bitcoin nears $9,000 as it breaks through highest level this year

Brennan security clearance NOT revoked ...

Graham: Dems don't care if FISA court was defrauded by FBI, DOJ

Trump awards trophy at marquee sumo event in Tokyo

Japan central bank chief Koruda sounds alarm on global economy ahead of G-20

Boris Johnson poised to lead Britain ...

Pirro: Pelosi hasn’t accepted 2016 election result ...

Headlines

‘The epitome of privelege’: Booker supporters rail against Buttigieg mania

JP Morgan: The US-China tariff battle is just the start of a global trade reordering

Saudi tankers ‘sabataged’ ... Mideast tensions flare

Lutz: Bernie is ‘most likely’ Democratic nominee in 2020

Booker hits Warren over proposal to break up tech giants

Beijing defiant on trade war: ‘No one should expect China to swallow bitter fruit’

Iran orders men not to look at women during Ramadan as hardliners tighten control ...

Study: Google search results overwhelmingly favor mainstream

Kamala Harris: ‘I would not have voted for NAFTA’

Bitcoin is now over $7,000 and is now up over 90% year-to-date

Poll: Theresa May headed for historic defeat ...

Healthcare CEO: Medicare for All could ‘collapse’ the system

Headlines

1 slain, 8 hurt in school shooting outside Denver

China has backtracked on nearly all aspects of the US draft trade agreement

Executive privilege? White House instructs McCahn  to not comply with congressional subpoena ...

Pelosi: ‘We cannot accept a 2nd term for Donald Trump

Dems moving forward with Barr contempt vote after DOJ talks break down

Trump tax returns from 1985-1994 reportedly show nearly $1 billion in losses

Shock poll: 57% of Dems believe Trump guilty of treason ...

Pompeo visits Iraq amid ‘very specific,’ ‘imminent’ threats to troops

Poll: Little support for Barr’s handling of Mueller report

Hackers steal nearly $40 million of bitcoin from one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges

Iran moving ballistic missiles by boat, USA says

White House drops initiative to reduce overall immigration

Headlines

Pelosi aide sought to undercut Medicare for All

Bitcoin rallies 15% to highest level since Noverber

Whistleblower: Trump team overruled 25 security clearance denials ...

Hofstra students demand removal of Thomas Jefferson statue

Harris raised $12 million in 1st quarter of campaign

Manhattan real estate sales fall for sixth straight quarter — longest losing streak for 30 years

NASA says debris from India’s antisatellite test puts Space Station at risk ...

Kirk: Joe Biden is being eaten by his own monster ...

Senate fails to advance disaster aid package amid Puerto Rico clash

Venezuela’s top court seeks to strip Guaido’s immunity — raising fears of arrest

Polls: Black voters like Bernie just fine ...

Trump may appoint an Immigration Czar

Headlines

Trump's dire climate report hands ammunition to Democrats

Trump's trade talks with China could snap markets out of their funk

Beijing to judge every resident based on behavior by the end of 2020 ...

Merkel: EU [nations] must give sovereignty to Brussels

European Union and China break ultimate trade taboo to hit back at Trump

Bitcoin tumbles again, loses a quarter of its value Thanksgiving week

WSJ: Trump expresses dissatisfaction with Treasury Secretary ...

Report: Kelly, Nielsen oppose broadening military powers at border

Why is the SEC looking to boost big bank profits?

New York state judge rejects Trump's claim he can't be sued because he's president

Mass riots turn Paris into warzone ...

Sports network ESPN loses 2 million subscribers in 2018

Headlines

Schumer: Democrats wrestled over staging mass Kavanaugh walkout

Trade deficit jumps by the most in over 3 years

Man repeatedly crashes truck into local Fox studio; ranting ...

Florida Senate race: Rick Scott and Bill Nelson tied at 47%

Woodward book raises new doubts about Kelly

Bitcoin falls after Goldman reportedly drops crypto [currency] trading plans

Alex Jones crashes [social media] hearings ...

Trump to Canada on trade policy: We shouldn't  have to buoy allies

Erdogan warns of coming 'massacure' in Syria

Trump bashes Woodward book, asks why 'Washington politicians don't revise libel laws'

Senators blast Google for not showing up to hearings on election meddling

Typhoon smashes Japan ... airport closed indefinitely ...

Headlines

Immigration storm bears down on Republicans

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross': It's 'premature' to assume Trimp's threatened EU auto tariffs will come to pass

Border Patrol arrests drop sharply ...

France: Manhunt for notorious inmate after escaped from prison via helicopter

Bolton downplays North Korean weapons report

Wilbur Ross: There is no downside level in the stock marker that will change Trump's trade policy

Big tech mobilizes for war against CA privacy law ...

Australia ends aid to Palestinian Authority

Mexican Popoulist Lopez Obrador triumphs in  presidential race

Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead as Bitcoin is now off 70% from its record high

Merkel future in jeopardy as coolition allies reject immigration deal ...

Romney: 'Not willing to say' he endorses Trump in 2020

Headlines

Trump: 'We cannot allow all of these people to invade our country'

Bitcoin falls below $6,000 but crypto trader says it's not over

ICE protests spread across America ...

Italy to impound NGO migrant ferries

Sessions warns against obstructing border police

Hungry rat shreds more than $17,500 in cash inside ATM in India

Border jumpers out with no 'judge or court'

S. African Jews alarmed by spike in anti-Semitic attacks

Reversal of fortunes: Obamacare rate hikes pose problems for Republicans

Explosion destroys apt. block in Ger,any, 25 injured

Erdogan wins again ... Rigged: police find car full of forged ballot papers

Scott Adams: Republicans -- vote because 'they're coming for you next'

Headlines

Guiliani falls back in line

Warren Buffet: US and China will avoid an 'extremely foolish' trade war

Nearly 1,600 arrested in Russian anti-Putin protests

Report: Jphn Kerry engaged in 'shadow deplomacy' with Iran to save nuclear deal

China's schooling Trump on the art of the delay

Warren Buffet says bitcoin is 'probably 'rat poison squared'

Buffet accounting 'nightmare' fuels first loss in nine years

Graphic: Cartel civil war leaves more tha 450 dead in Mexican border city

Mueller seeks delay in case alleging Russians interfered with U.S. election

Hawaii on high alert after day of earthquakes, lava flows

Argintina raises interest rates to 40%

Lisa Page resigns from FBI

Cost-Benefit

Economists often believe that they have the answers when it comes to trade offs between what things cost and the benefits derived therefrom. Well, Mr. Adam Smith, please explain the following head-scratchiers when it comes to such cost-benefit analyses that some people make:

- A Jackson Pollack "dribble" painting

- A Malibu monster beach house

- Tickets in the nose-bleed section of a December Minnesota Vikings home game

- Shares of Tesla stock

- A pre-paid future ride on a Richard Branson or Elon Musk "spaceship"

- A $100 per shot drink of 40-year-old single-malt Scotch whisky

- An Apple-Watch

- A Honus Wagner baseball card

- A cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin

- An Aston-Martin One ($1.4M)

- A luxury condo in Hong Kong

Headlines

President calls [Comey] 'slimeball'

[Jim] Jordon fires warning shot at [Kevin] McCarthy

Tesla ships flawed parts to local machine shop for fixes, and they're piled up outside

Rod Rosenstein absent at DOJ press conference

Gazans attempt to breach border wall with explosives, Molotov cocktails ...

Trump approval holds at 50% ...

Hardly anyone is paying taxes on their Bitcoin gains as filing deadline nears

Gallup: Catholic Church attendance drops during Francis papacy

 Minnesota braces for BLIZZARD ...

GOP faction wants Ryan gone now

Feds spied on Trump lawyer Cohen's emails, feared he'd destroy documents

Department of Justice watchdog releases damning Andrew McCabe report

Loosely Goosey

My wife just read me a story about how many of our callowed youth are borrowing against their student loans to buy Bitcoins. Now, it alarms me that the administration of this program is so loosey goosey that such irresponsible behavior can occur. (Loans under this program now total $1.3 trillion and growing rapidly.)

This student loan program, unless it is quickly reined in, is an ideal candidate to cause our next financial crisis ... and our Federal Reserve System will not have the same latitude to deal with it now as it had in 2008.

["Captain of the Titanic, there is a very big iceberg ahead ..."]

Headlines

[Tim] Kaine: Trump is 'lying' or 'delusional' on DACA

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Bitcoin will eventually be the single global currency

Israeli intercepts incoming rockets from Gaza Strip ...

[Niki] Haley slams 'foolish' Human Rights Council after 5 new anti-Israel resolutions

Kaine questions whether Bolton can I get security clearance

The economy looks weak in the first quarter, but better days are coming

[March for Our Lives] Crowd count well below expected and initial reports ...

Student activists: Arming teachers puts kids more in danger'

Trump's legal team in flux as he reverses decision on controversial pair

Saudi Air Force intercepts missile over Riyadh, state television says

Flashback: School shootings getting LESS common ...

London homeless DOUBLE after deportations blocked by EU ...

Headlines

FBI director puts responsibility for Porter on White House

BOMBSHELL: Comey held secret meeting with Obama before Trump inauguration

Home prices hit record ...

[Israeli] Police recommend Netanyahu indictment, Bibi fights back

Porter blamed ex-wife's black eye on an accident in off-the-record meeting with reporters

Total US household debt soars to record above $13 trillion

Macron threatens to bomb Syria ...

Duerte: Shoot female Communist terrorists in the 'vagina'

Trump proposes [partially] replacing food stamps with food boxes

Barely anyone is paying the taxes they owe on their Bitcoin gains

Piers [Morgan]: Omarosa called me a 'f*cking f*ggot' ...

Democrats' gag order blocks Senate immigration debate