China halts US soybean imports to hit Trump’s MAGA supporters
https://asiatimes.com/2025/10/china-halts-us-soybean-imports-to-hit-trumps-maga-supporters/

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Foreclosures are surging as U.S. homeowners grapple with rising costs
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/housing-market-foreclosure-increasing-attom-august-2025/

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70% of Gen Z are so anxious about money that they can’t sleep—they’re dealing with it by bed rotting and watching TV instead of budgeting | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/gen-z-are-so-anxious-about-money-they-cant-sleep-bed-rotting-doom-scrolling-budgeting-advice/

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California has now banned algorithmic price fixing.

The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI.

This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.

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Trump Forced to Admit How Much His Key Crusade Has Backfired | The president said he would be working on a bailout for farmers after his tariffs destroyed their biggest market.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-forced-to-admit-how-much-his-tariff-crusade-has-backfired/

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Hundreds Of Unpaid TSA Agents Are Calling In Sick—Expect Longer Airport Security Lines
https://go.forbes.com/CW6A7w

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Most Of Billionaires’ $7.6 Trillion Has Never Been Taxed - Americans For Tax Fairness
https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires-7-trillion/#:~:text=American%20billionaires%20reached%20a%20record,Fairness%20(ATF)%20based%20on%20Forbes

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Leaked memo shows Trump plans to stiff 750k shutdown workers
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674161155/

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Understanding the migratory response to hurricanes and tropical storms in the USA
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02281-8

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Nearly 70% of Americans think the economy is on the ‘wrong track’ and it's a bad time to buy a home, Fannie Mae survey shows
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/is-it-good-bad-time-to-buy-house-housing-market-economy-wrong-track/

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Leaked memo shows Trump plans to stiff 750k shutdown workers
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674161155/I%E2%80%99m

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America saw ‘essentially no job growth’ last month, Moody’s warns
https://thehill.com/business/5542223-america-job-growth-moodys-prediction/

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Governor Abbot Boycott of Public Companies HQ in Texas until Texas NG withdrawn from Oregon and Illinois
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OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/10/omb-deletes-reference-law-guaranteeing-backpay-furloughed-feds-shutdown-guidance/408645/

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ICE stops a family at gunpoint & smashes their car window over a newborn baby

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The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-partying-in-the-usaand

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Trump Slashes $8 Billion From Blue States That Didn’t Vote for Him
https://www.azexpress.net/en/news/837/trump-slashes-8-billion-from-blue-states-that-didnt-vote-for-him

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Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-growth-zero-first-half-2025-jason-furman-harvard-economist/

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JD asks why undocumented immigrants can get treatment at emergency rooms and blaming democrats for government shutdown

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There are 45,000 US flights a day. Air traffic controllers are calling in sick. Can anyone do the math on this economic impact?

https://preview.redd.it/u1ik3zmufvtf1.jpg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2313a859e035fc6fb56692c2d3a23f537237dae

Photo above - hey kid, I told you . . . go back to your seat. We won't be landing until a week from Sunday because the air traffic controllers all called in sick . . . (screen shot courtesy of the film "Airplane")

If anything has the potential to short circuit the government shutdown, it's the air traffic controllers calling in sick. I confess I didn’t see this coming. They probably didn’t either, until Trump told them they were working without pay until the shutdown was over. And THEN added that back pay owed to them during the shutdown might not be paid. See link below.

This sick-out evidently started in Burbank, California. A bunch of Hollywood producers and tech moguls keep their private jets parked there. Those are all grounded now. The control tower is completely unstaffed, but probably not the cocktail lounge. Someone COULD take off, but it would be a federal crime. Corporate pilots aren’t going to risk losing their licenses, no matter how much Jerry Bruckheimer (producer) or Elon Musk bribes and threatens them.

Possibly more important than America’s economy screeching to halt (if this spreads), is the impact to the NFL and MLB. I’m being satiric here, but it’s true. Imagine if all the NFL games had to be cancelled because the visiting team couldn’t travel. Imagine if the baseball playoffs and World Series were put on indefinite hold. The mobile betting industry and Vegas would shut down too. Liquor sales might plummet. Doordash and Uber eats would be the only jobs left standing.

If this spreads, America won’t even be able to fly any migrant detainees to Wakanda or Zamunda for safekeeping. They will be stuck in Alligator Alcatraz forever. Unless THOSE guards start calling in sick, too.

It’s unclear whether Hollywood and the Artificial Intelligence moguls trying to put the rest of us out of work will blame democrats or republicans for this fiasco. On the one hand, they almost all hate Trump. On the other hand, they also hate higher taxes, which are a certainty if congress keeps dreaming up new stuff to spend on that we can’t afford. Everyone says all the new taxes should fall on corporations. We're all going to put out of work because of AI, anyway.

I have no travel plans this coming weekend. If I did, I would probably drive anyway, since flights are so expensive, and you get charged extra for carryon luggage and a bottle of water now. Next the bathrooms will probably be coin operated. Will we start hearing that are 10-mile-long traffic jams because all the flights are grounded? Maybe the toll booth attendants will start a sick-out too.

I’m just sayin’ . . .



**Air traffic controller shortages lead to canceled flights, delays nationwide**

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