Hi, Shrewd!        Login  
Shrewd'm.com 
A merry & shrewd investing community
 Best Of MacroBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd
Search
Shrewd'm.com Merry shrewd investors
Search
Best Of MacroBest OfAll BoardsThe Shrewd’m WeeklyLearn to InvestHow to Become Shrewd

The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
Answer this questionContinue to Shrewd'mThis note won't appear again
Personal Finance / Macroeconomic Trends & Risks
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (3) |
Author: Goofyhoofy ✸✹🐝🐝 HONORARY
SHREWD   😊 😞
Number: of 4582 
Subject: Re: TX and NM may be forced to become vegetarian.
Date: 06/18/26 7:54 AM
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
No. of Recommendations: 24
I am sure that the blame for this will fall on Biden, Obama, and/or Clinton.

Oh that’s a prediction you can make with 100% certainty.

Trump officials play Biden blame game as screwworm spreads

The parasitic fly had been eliminated in the U.S. since the 1960s, but now it’s back, and according to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, the new resurgence is entirely due to the lax immigration policies of former President Biden’s administration.

“The threat didn’t appear overnight; it was the direct result of the Biden-Harris Admin’s WEAK foreign policy agenda and FAILED immigration policies,” Rollins wrote in a social media post last week.
In a CNBC “Squawk Box” interview Monday, Rollins continued to point fingers at Biden.

“Under the last administration with the massive movement under the open borders policy, the cartels, etc., border security, that’s when [screwworm] began to make its way back up toward America, hitting Mexico in early 2023, moving its way up through Mexico in 2024,” Rollins said.
thehill.com - Trump blames biden screwworm

OK, sos let’s figure out how it really happened, shall we?

After Mexican officials confirmed a case of screwworm in November 2024, Biden’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) closed southern ports of entry to live cattle imports to prevent the spread of screwworm into the U.S.

But amid protests from the cattle industry, President Trump reversed that decision in February 2025.

Well, well, well.
Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!
Print the post
Members reply directly to Goofyhoofy here — and replies get answered. Reading is free; so is joining the conversation. Join Shrewd'm »
This community has written 4,571 posts about Macroeconomic Trends & Risks. The article-length ones it recommended most:
AI Tarpits · 36 recs · 2026
End of an era - profit slowdown · 36 recs · 2023
Control Panel: Trend changes in 2026 · 34 recs · 2026
From the Oregon Bay Area (a blogger) · 33 recs · 2025
Lerner Symmetry Theorem · 32 recs · 2025
Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (3) |


Announcements
Macroeconomic Trends & Risks FAQ
Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

Ticker or Board Name Author

Best Of Macro | Best Of | Favourites & Replies | All Boards | Followed Shrewds | Open Questions | Moving a community