I was nosey . . . First a Chart. more charts and then the verbiage . . . Thanks to Strategic Exit for giving me a foundation. There are more informational stats at YouGov Survey: “Political Violence and Extremism.” I was curious, YouGov depicts themselves as an international online research data and analytics technology group. […]
When I was growing up, fluoridation of water was regarded as a commie plot by the John Birch Society wingnuts. Nevertheless, hundreds of millions of Americans (including my wife and I) have lived with fluoridated water without evidence of harm. I see where RFK, Jr is predicting that the second Trump Administration will recommend against […]
If this was Mr. Main Street Citizen, this would have played out differently. Musk can play the court games because he can afford to do so. Hope Trump loses and takes Musk with him. I wonder who will be funding Trump in court? Musk Gets Tossed Back to PA State Court In Lottery Case, Just […]
I watched the County of Maricopa vote play out in 2020. I read the backgrounds of the county board, I did not sense anything unusual with them. The election appeared to be clean and well conducted and controlled. The only beef was from Trump and his people about conspiracy. I am in Arizona and just […]
Send a message to Putin, Xi, and their autocratic friends: there’s a new sheriff in town. They will test her. Why not get ahead of the curve?
– by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There’s always some noise in the high frequency data, and this week that noise was in the positive direction, as almost all of the coincident data shows strength. On the other hand (and this is the economy we’re talking about, there’s always […]
Timothy Snyder energizing us on voting and why we should be voting without fear. We choose the president and not Trump. “Thinking About” . . . Why has Donald Trump shown his darkest side these last few days? He is energizing his base for the authoritarianism he hopes to bring about. And he is preparing his voters […]
It has been a while since I have posted a Charles Gaba commentary from ACA Signups. Charles is the person to read on the ACA and also governmental healthcare programs impacting and beyond the ACA. Biden-Harris Admin proposes new rule dramatically expanding coverage of birth control, ACA Signups Currently, the Affordable Care Act’s preventative services […]
Yesterday there were reports (political wire) that the undecided vote is breaking for Harris. How big a boost might this give to her election chances? r = Republican vote share d = democratic vote share u = undecided vote share s = share of undecided vote that breaks for Harris Putting aside the third party […]
– by New Deal democrat As usual, next week there will be a dearth of economic data, so I’ll report on construction spending then. In the meantime, we got another poor ISM manufacturing report, with the total index declining to 46.5, the lowest reading this year, while the more leading new orders component increased 1.0 […]