I wonder if companies purchasing trains could put code disclosure in the purchase contract? I wonder if, in aggregate, train purchasers or car purchasers could fund an independent code storage vault and pay a small premium to fund that code vault organization?

In other words, if purchasers wanted this and valued this, they would demand it in purchase contracts and fund it.

Congress writes the bills that set tax rates. Congress also writes the spending bills.

I thought Biden told us to blame US price increases on Putin.

"families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price hike."

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/597675-biden-bla...

If the existing unemployment _insurance_ (forced payroll contributions to each State) are not sufficient, then change that insurance system.

There could be a business opportunity for supplemental market-priced contributions which pay on job loss. That wouldn't be worse than the 'legal assist' ripoff plans HR pimps at employee hiring.

I observed Twitter/X was recently loosening previous owner's restrictions and censorship. I'm apparently misinformed, so how is enabling previously banned accounts hurting free speech?

They are allowed if you voluntarily consent. When did border and immigration photo opt-out change for Americans?

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-introdu...

"It is not mandatory for U.S. citizens to have their photo taken."

Thanks for the reminder! I recall Fed was involved with something in reverse repo 6 months before virus blew up.

Federal Reserve has so many levers it becomes questionable that anyone understands medium to long term impacts. And FDIC works closely with Fed on bank bailouts like SVB.

Federal Reserve has more than one lever. They set bank reserve ratios. They engage in outright buying of underwater (mispriced) paper through quantitative easing. They created a new program this year to swap SVB's mispriced bond holdings at par. It's time to reel in Federal Reserve and reel in government deficit spending.

How does that relate to capital and jobs? Unlike physical mining and physical manufacturing, capital is not a gating feature of bits and bytes tech startups.

We saw violent destruction during covid lockdowns by BLM. What did that accomplish?

Really?

Fed funds rate was about 2.5% in 2019, because Fed raised rates when Trump took office. Fed funds rate scraped zero in 2020 and 2021.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/fedfunds

Thirty-thousand.org also has information about allowing the House to expand.

https://thirty-thousand.org

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/988865415/stuck-at-435-repres...

Government meddling does make it worse. Governments fighting the business cycle is perverted and should not be the task of government. Paul Volker rediscovered the business cycle and wrote a book about it.

https://archive.org/details/rediscoveryofbus0000volc

Interest rates naturally vary across time, space, lenders, and borrowers. Leave rates to the free market and have government enforce anti-discrimination.

That is an extraordinary claim.

If government set or controlled allowable interest rate or set it to zero there would be no business cycle? The downturn in 2020 was caused by interest?