U.S. Farm Bankruptcies Increased 46% in 2025 #farming #agriculture #bankruptcies #cartoon #gregkearney #kearney

Mediate's yr-in-review lists Trump’s🚨scandals, crises & abuses while failing to capture: full scope of #incompetence & #malice *defines this regime.🚨Ms spent the yr grappling with pol earthquakes brought on by a nonfunctional➕⬆️irrelevant Cong, SC: complicit in Trump’s radicalization of #ICE, & a tariff-driven wave of sm bus #bankruptcies. Damage➡️aftershocks: too many to ct.

250th anniversary:🚨looks like a LOOMING FUNERAL.

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#Nazis #Economy #Uprising #USPol
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5666723-trump-presides-over-americas-coming-apart/

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Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/sears-seritage-edward-lampert.html

Trump's farm #bailout🚨is a direst result of his policies & #tariffs. Americans are finally realizing the damage his regime is doing to their finances & futures.

"Farm #bankruptcies:🚨⬆️60% in the 1st yr of Trump's 2nd term, comp to the last yr of Biden's T.

*Impose massive tariffs on CN
*CN retaliates by ending its soybean imports
*Cut deal w/CN so they'll buy our #soybeans
CN buys only 20%, so far, of what it agd to purch
*Offer $12B to US #farmers..."
-B Grueskin
#USPol
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-unveil-12-billion-bailout-for-farmers-064eb1de

>>High borrowing costs, cautious consumers and the [current] administration’s trade war are weighing on earnings for the smallest businesses while owners’ optimism fell to a six-month low in October. The number of Subchapter V cases is rising faster than the overall rate for Chapter 11 bankruptcies, which businesses and wealthy individuals typically use to restructure their debts.<<

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-02/mom-and-pop-business-bankruptcies-hit-a-record-as-debts-pile-up

#SmallBusiness #Bankruptcies #USNews #USEconomy #Economy #Bloomberg

Mom-and-Pop Business Bankruptcies Hit a Record as Debts Rise

A six-year-old federal program designed to help the smallest American businesses cut debt and get a fresh start has set a record for the number of cases filed, court data show.

Bloomberg

Judge to Approve Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy, Releasing Billions for Opioid Plaintiffs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/health/purdue-sacklers-settlement.html