Most of us have read about tariffs and rising prices. Coupled together a piece from The Economist and Robert Reich’s latest. “Trump’s impact on the economy and the nation? The damage from the tariffs that are in place is starting to be felt. The collapse in migration is an enormous and underappreciated shock to the economy. […]
The perception being, citizens are viewing it as not as serious for a second year. “Crime in U.S. Seen as Less Serious for Second Straight Year,” GALLUP WASHINGTON, D.C. — Building on last year’s less-negative assessments of crime in the U.S., Americans’ perceptions have again improved in 2025. Less than half, 49%, now say crime is an […]
J.P. McJefferson The dysfunction of today’s federal government is not simply the product of political division or individual leaders; it is rooted in the internal rules of Congress itself. The Founders, in one of their few major oversights, granted Congress the authority to make its own procedural rules (Article I, Section 5) without establishing any […]
As a PhD student in genetics, my fellow grad students and I didn’t think the human genome would be sequenced in our lifetime. In the event, I got *my* genome sequenced years ago for $200. I’m happy to have been wrong. My point here is that prophecy about future technology is risky. So, what about […]
Good piece by Dan Rather on the destruction of a White House wing so as to put his mark on White House history with little regard of the past history of the White House itself. Will it measure up to the past? Probably not as he lacks a sense of history, of people, and of […]
– by New Deal democrat With the continuing desert of official data, the NAR’s existing home sales report – which normally is of secondary importance – temporarily becomes our best look at the housing market. To repeat what I’ve mentioned an number of times in the past, after the Fed began hiking rates in 2022, mortgage […]
My first thought through high school was to become an architect designing houses and buildings. I had the drafting equipment, had placed at the IIT drafting contest, and was good at drawing a straight line. In high school they taught us how to frame houses when it still had such shops as wood working and […]
But then, we are dealing with dumb and dumber. California Highway Patrol Border Division Chief Tony Coronado said in a statement. “This was an unusual and concerning situation. It is highly uncommon for any live-fire or explosive training activity to occur over an active freeway. As a Marine myself, I have tremendous respect for our […]
New elected Arizona Congressional Representative Adelita Grijalva is blocked from taking office due to Mike Johnson delays in swearing her in to office. Republican Eli Crane is my representative. His lack of support for Representative Adelita Grijalva is causing Arizona to lose representation in the House. At what point does the political party politics stop […]
– by New Deal democrat Under normal circumstances, this would be the morning I would slice and dice the first important consumer data for the month: retail sales. With the government shutdown continuing with no end in sight, all we have are several dart-throws. The Chicago Fed’s final Advanced Retail Trade report for September indicated +0.5% […]