Poor Management & Other Problems
Dow’s worst week since 2008 financial crisis; Nasdaq closes in bear market. The Dow closed at about 22,450, higher than when Trump was inaugurated, but well below this year’s high. This is shaping up to be the worst December since 1931 during the Great Depression.
The turnover rate at McDonalds is 44%. That is better than Trump’s White House at 46%. Note that this does not include all of the posts that have never been filled.
You should read Secretary Mattis’s resignation letter. This resignation by a Secretary of Defense is another unprecedented feature of the Trump administration.
Congress has gone home for the night, so Trump will get the government shutdown he wanted. This is his. The Republicans put together a bill that would pass, and he refused to sign it.
In better news, Gatwick, Britain’s second busiest airport, has been reopened after the police arrest two accused of involvement in the drone flights that caused the airport to be shut down for most of two days.
On a lighter note, the city of Yellowknife in Canada has announced the name of a public statue of a muskox: Elon Muskox.
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Let’s just say the ground workers who keep this country safe are not happy campers. I am right now in the middle of them. If you’re going to defeat a cancer you must kill every cell. While 20% of Syrians might be trained to safeguard 100% of their country, the cancer has spread probably beyond control. We’d best keep watch right here at home.