
Rick Haglund
Writer at Freelance
Former Booth Newspapers business/economics reporter/columnist. Now freelance writer when not playing Papa.
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2 weeks ago |
michiganadvance.com | Rick Haglund
Sorry, kids, especially those high school and college students who have or are about to graduate. The adults are really messing up your world. Your futures are being threatened by a Trump administration that is attacking universities, trying to get young people to forgo college for factory jobs, making it harder to get and repay student loans, unleashing unregulated artificial intelligence and enacting potentially ruinous tariffs.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Rick Haglund
Getty ImagesSorry, kids, especially those high school and college students who have or are about to graduate. The adults are really messing up your world. Your futures are being threatened by a Trump administration that is attacking universities, trying to get young people to forgo college for factory jobs, making it harder to get and repay student loans, unleashing unregulated artificial intelligence and enacting potentially ruinous tariffs.
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3 weeks ago |
freep.com | Rick Haglund
Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter’s recent State of the County speech was held on the campus of the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit. Prayer rooms were made available for attending Muslims observing Ramadan. It was another in a string of signs that Oakland County has come a long way from the lily-white, country-club image cultivated by Coulter’s predecessor, the late L. Brooks Patterson.
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1 month ago |
michiganadvance.com | Rick Haglund
I’m old enough to remember when hundreds of thousands of Buicks, Mercurys, Oldsmobiles, Plymouths and Pontiacs rolled off the assembly lines every year in Flint, Dearborn, Lansing, Detroit and Pontiac, the respective hometowns of these storied brands. The problem is that too many other people, including influential policymakers, also wistfully recall those days and somehow believe they can be resurrected.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Rick Haglund
WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 03: New Nissan cars are driven onto a rail car to be transported from an automobile processing terminal located at the Port of Los Angeles on April 3, 2024 in Wilmington, California. The Japanese automotive maker is being impacted by President Trump’s new 25 percent imported automobile tariffs.
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I'm expecting an executive order requiring the ratings agencies to restore the AAA credit rating any time now.

The United States loses its last perfect credit rating, a loss that could rattle financial markets and push up interest rates https://t.co/0lTUxiMYJ0

The news has just gotten too weird. https://t.co/uJgbz9q7Un

Apparently Zeldin also is an auto engineer.

Zeldin on rolling back federal incentives for automatic engine stop-start systems in cars: "While you might come out with some study that shows a little bit of savings related to gas, there are a lot of people wanting to know, what kind of damage is this causing to my starter?" https://t.co/RsepFXgEGp