People complain about the size of the Federal Government, its costs and taxes, and how the size of it infringes upon the nation’s economy. Complaining of the size of government, Grover Norquist once said, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into […]

January CPI: a new paradigm, with the reappearance of some old suspects  – by New Deal democrat Needless to say, January’s increase of 0.5% in consumer prices was not welcome. And there was a changing of the guard somewhat, as several of the old suspects (food and energy) made new appearances. Some of the spike […]

I am finding there are a greater degree of politics going on in economic commentaries. Maybe it was always there and I was just missing it? A bit of Paul Krugman this Wednesday morning on Global Trade and Tariffs. Trump’s threatens countries with tariffs if they do not bow to him and do as he […]

Here I report on research on off the shelf CAR T-cells (which was conducted beyond the reach of Trump, Miust and Vought)

– by New Deal democrat There’s no new significant news until Wednesday, so let’s catch up graphically with a few important items from Friday’s employment report for January. As I wrote then, probably the most important developments weren’t in the monthly numbers, but rather the annual revisions to both the Establishment and Household Surveys.  For […]

Managing a supply chain for a small part of a $12 billion corporation in the US sent me to many countries in Asia. This included China. I was able to see the old aspects of it such as The Wall and the Tombs while there. I also saw the rebuild of the nation and the […]

Late afternoon yesterday, I found myself heading north to the other side of Phoenix to meet up with the author of The Bonddad Blog known as the New Deal democrat. The traffic was not terrible then. I planned to share a small pizza with him at Pomos pizzeria if he was up for it. Pomo […]

Steve Hutkins giving an update of Louis DeJoy’s plan to make the USPS more efficient and profitable. PRC finds Delivering for America has significant problems, urges USPS to reconsider its plan Steve Hutkins “Save the Post Office“ Yesterday the Postal Regulatory Commission issued its Advisory Opinion on the Postal Service’s Delivering for America plan. The […]

The Flaw in Musk’s Plan which a Military Veteran Exposed Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s ploy to strong-arm large sections of the federal workforce into taking “deferred resignations” is not going to work, wrote Michael Embrich for Rolling Stone. Federal workers were given this offer by a bizarre email titled “Fork in the Road.” An ultimatum eerily similar […]

 – by New Deal democrat As per usual, my focus in reporting on GDP is not the headline number, but the aspects which serve as leading indicators for the economy in the next few quarters. But to get it out of the way, real GDP increased at a 2.3% rate in the last quarter of […]