Watching the Democrats’ smoothly staged, potently scripted convention last week, voters could easily think that Hillary Clinton has this election in the bag. The critiques of Donald Trump made devastatingly clear that he’s a preposterous, dangerous candidate for the presidency. The case for Clinton was compelling, and almost every party leader who mattered showed up […]
The PGA moved a golf tournament from one of Trump’s courses to Mexico City. Trump was upset. Trump said, “If I become your president, this stuff is all gonna stop.” It is clear in his immediate reaction to the decision that he plans to use the power of the presidency for his own personal business […]
At the DNC, a story was told how young Hillary was bullied on the way home from school. Her mother blocked the doorway and told her to go confront the bully. Hillary was trained to take on Bullies. Now bring on the debates. Let’s put that training to the test…
As far as I can tell the Trump train tweet is authentic (and authentic click bait). Checking his time line I found this more recent tweet FRED begs to differ The tweet might show Trump cherry picking (and cheating on “through”). After Bush and the Republicans (with assistance from Democrats including Bill Clinton) left the […]
Okay, folks, here’s the deal. Specifically, this happened this morning: A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina’s requirement that voters show identification before casting ballots and reinstated an additional week of early voting. The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit was an overwhelming […]
There have been calls for a 4% inflation target. But a 3% target would work better. Let me show you why. I will use this chart that plots net profit rate with core inflation… (quarterly data since 1958!!!) Net profit rate = Corporate profit rate – nominal interest rate The plot has hugged and slid […]
The Clinton campaign has been strangely remiss in not publicizing the Trump campaign’s aggressive screening of journalists at Trump’s events—especially its denial of press credentials to several news media organizations, including the Washington Post and Politico. But this report by Paul Farhi, the Washington Post’s media reporter, this morning, titled “Post reporter barred, patted down […]
Via Dealbook: CONSUMER AGENCY PROPOSES NEW RULES FOR DEBT COLLECTORS There will be some respite for people being hounded for debt as federal regulators are preparing to significantly strengthen the rules that govern debt collection for the first time in nearly 40 years. Under proposed regulations, debt collection companies will have to provide fuller documentation […]
by Mike Kimel Google Trends and the Presidential Election I’m sure somebody has done this before, but I don’t remember seeing it. I used Google Trends to see how searches for the Democrat and Republican nominee for President stacked up in the first ten months of 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 (YTD). I’d go back […]