Michael Meeropol

This commentary was broadcast on Friday September 26. By October 1, either Congress will have agreed on a spending bill or the government will have shut down. Now before everybody panics, remember a federal government shutdown does not mean the armed forces will go home and social security checks will stop being mailed.

On Thursday, September 4 I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion entitled “The Peekskill Riots: Then & Now.”

On Monday August 11, I joined elected officials, activists and ordinary citizens at a rally in Peekskill, NY in Westchester County. We were there to support an Ecuadorean immigrant, Amy Lituma, who had been offered a Hobson’s Choice by ICE --- either self-deport and you can take your child with you or we will arrest you and you will be separated from your child while your case is being adjudicated.

President Trump is fond of telling people how intelligent and well-educated he is. He did receive a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

On July 5th, Vice President Vance spoke at a right-wing think tank, the Claremont Institute.

In my opinion, the war in Iran is an attempt by all three governments to divert their peoples’ attention from domestic issues. The Mullahs who rule Iran are hated by the vast majority of the population --- they hold on to power with murderous repressive violence.

Recently I opened the printed version of THE ATLANTIC and discovered a very interesting article by David Frum entitled, “That 70s Feeling: Trump’s tariffs could cause stagflation for the first time in decades. It may go on for a long, long time.”

Economist Michael Meeropol offers commentary for Friday, May 2nd, 2025

In my oral radio commentary for Friday, April 18, I decided NOT to make any comments on the craziness of Trump’s on again off again tariff war with the rest of the world.

How does the federal government allocate the trillions of dollars it spends every year? According to polls, the government spends a lot of money on foreign aid and welfare. But of course those polls are wrong. For an example drawn from 2015 polling data, the public on average believed that the US government spent 26 percent of its budget on foreign aid. In fact it’s always been in the low single digits.