Steve Woll

Just finished reading a sobering article about the last 18 months at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). I never really quite understood why DOGE and administration officials would choose emergency response and disaster assistance as a target, but it is clear that they did, unfortunately with long term negative consequences. With the appointment of new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and the re-nomination of Cameron Hamilton to head...

A story last night on 60 minutes about insider trading on decisions of war and peace using the new generation of prediction markets started a remarkable 24 hour deluge of alarming and depressing information. With that as a scene setter, today we learned that President Trump's stock trading, supposedly in a blind trust, made over 3600 stock trades in the first quarter of 2026, a rate over 300X his historical average. Stocks his account traded in include Palantir (critical to US war efforts in...

It's crazy how much the situation in Cuba encapsulates so much of the Trump Administration's ethos. For those just tuning in, at the beginning of this year, the United States effectively imposed a blockade on the oil that has driven Cuba for decades. Point 1 - another case of the U.S. bullying a small, basically helpless nation. The latest reports include 40 hour power outages, threatening vulnerable citizens. Point 2 - Why? What is the justification? That it is a "communist" country? ...