In a recent video podcast of The Jim Acosta Show, former news anchor and White House correspondent Jim Acosta catches up with Representative (Republican) outside of Capitol Hill. The reasons he was pursuing Representatives? To ask why they focused on the name-change bill, changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico, and whether they were […]
I’ll start by saying that science doesn’t deal in proof. Science draws provisional conclusions based on the weight of evidence. A scientific hypothesis is one that can be tested and potentially falsified by experiment. The hypothesis that the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, originated from a natural infection just gained […]
Environment, Energy, and Related News from the week ending May 3rd. – by R. J. Sigmund Measles Texas measles total grows to 663 as Arkansas reports local spread, CIDRAP The Texas Department of State Health Services today reported 17 more measles cases from the West Texas outbreak, bringing the state’s total to 663. Along with more […]
Republicans chose the worse alternative for strengthening Social Security. Instead Bisignano will be implementer of Social Security’s demise. Democrats need t really step back and do whatever is necessary to block this appointment. More recently than the April 14 commentary by Nancy Altman is this later article on Social Security. Although Trump says nothing will […]
Being XMilitary (Sgt. E-5 USMC) does not give me a pulpit from which to demean those who were not involved in the late sixties. I think at times those who fled the country to avoid military service were brave. More than likely, they would never be able to return to the US and they gave […]
– by New Deal democrat Back in March I took a look at how producers and consumers reacted to periods of high political policy uncertainty, concluding that usually in the past consumers had reacted first, somewhere between almost simultaneously to with a one quarter delay, and producers reacted afterward to the downturn in demand by cutting back […]
“Which states contribute the most and least to federal revenue?” USAFacts All states—and their taxpayers—send money to federal coffers. The government distributes much of this back to states, but some receive more money than they contributed. This shapes how money flows through Social Security, Medicaid, and infrastructure projects nationwide. Source: IRS, USASpending.gov – Get the data – […]
– by New Deal democrat Because manufacturing is much less important to the economy than in the decades before the Millennium, the economically weighted average of the ISM services index (75%) as well as manufacturing (25%), especially over a three month period, has been much more accurate since 2000. In April the important aspects of the […]
I have been in and out of Thailand over the years and either went to the Philippines next or China. An occasional stop in Jakarta was made once and awhile. Mostly, the people were friendly towards unknowing Americans. And for sure, we do not know everything. They would guide us and make sure we were […]
–by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Aside from the declines in the April regional Fed reports of general business conditions, there has been no significant fallout in the high frequency data from the tariff trade wars – at least, not yet. As usual, clicking over and reading will bring […]