– by New Deal democrat Normally real retail sales is one of the indicators I treat as most important, because it tells us so much about consumer behavior, which is not only 70% of the economy, but also has a lengthy track record for leading both employment and the coincident indicators for recession. Not this […]
It is time for a change by Democrats. For sure Kamala Harris handed Trump his . . . I was sitting in my chair laughing and he backed off. I am sure he knew why he could not go to a second debate with Kamala. And once again, voters would not accept a woman as […]
I read this in my recent Atlantic magazine subscription. The story about the lack of inoculation with Measles Vaccine is stunning. The results being a child dying. The comments by Robert who hails from an important political family are stunningly false. If you believe what he says, everything said by those who favor vaccines is […]
If anyone thinks this is more than just a game by Trump, you are wrong. The or his story keeps changing on what he claims he is going to do with his favorite topic of tariffs. In an earlier post, I outlined some of the ideas he had for tariffs on product coming to America. […]
Subscribe to Prof. Heather’s Letters from an American. It was the first site in which I did so. There is a parallel to what was taking place after the Civil War and what is taking place today. Letters from An American On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia […]
-by New Deal democrat The financial market thrill ride continues on. I considered writing up a post on bond yields this morning, but who knows where they will be at the close of markets this afternoon?!? So let me point out that the Roberts Supreme Court has created a legal doctrine under which the T—-p […]
Initially presented at KFF, “Blockbuster Deal Will Wipe Out $30 Billion in Medical Debt. Even Backers Say It’s Not Enough.” Yves Smith also features the same article at Naked Capitalism as of April 8. The discussion is over medical debt. The opinion offered by Yves is such that the buying up of medical debt is […]
I worked in Supply Chain a lifetime. Doing the planning, purchasing the materials, negotiating the pricing, negotiating the needs of manufacture in failing and growing economies, and being efficient in my planning of it. There were those of us doing what was necessary and those that talk about it. In this case, Krugman discusses who […]
Following the breadcrumbs of how justice is achieved for one person . . . hopefully. Joyce Vance @ Civil Discourse Deporting an Innocent Man There is a case I want to write to you about tonight, a case that was decided last week but has gotten lost in the press of so much news on […]
Weldon Berger and I go back a long way (Slate’s The Fray). We are speaking of decades when each of us were a bit different than what we are today. We were on the same side of the argument. However, there was a distinct difference in how we approached things in politics and society. We […]