A bit of Paul Krugman late in the afternoon. I am not going to talk Epstein even as I mention him. The story will come out bit by bit. It is reported better in other places than by Angry Bear. Guess I will post what one economist sees. What Economist Krugman discusses with a lead […]
– by New Deal democrat Consumer price inflation will be reported tomorrow. In the meantime, this morning producer prices for August were reported. Normally I don’t pay too much attention to producer prices – and I won’t this month, either. But let me put that in some context. In the past, when producer prices have outstripped […]
Trump has no fear of US Citizens. Republicans have reason to be fearful in the next election, if this bill is passed. But Repubs are not showing much fear. A lot of detail in this commentary. To make things from bad to really bad? The new law restricts a states’ ability to raise revenue for […]
Understanding the latest BLS Jobs report. What they are stating is, the labor force is large at 140 million and companies tend to overstate employment. Probably for good reason. If they all stated what was really happening in their company and industry, we probably would have been in trouble far earlier. In which case, profits […]
In the early years of the USSR, Soviet genetics was internationally recognized. Then along came Trofim Lysenko, an agronomist who convinced Stalin that he could bypass the laborious genetics of plant breeding to develop strains of wheat through the transmission of acquired traits. This fit well with the Soviet philosophy that humanity could be transformed […]
– by New Deal democrat The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) for Q1 of this year was released this morning. Perhaps more importantly, the numbers for last year were finalized. This forms the “preliminary benchmark” for the actual reported changes to payrolls over that period which will show up in next February’s report for […]
A first level of review is carried out by a scientific review group (SRG). It is composed (primarily) of non-federal scientists who have expertise in relevant scientific disciplines and current research areas. Their role is to assess the overall impact a proposed project (or resource, or training, or center, etc.) will likely have on the […]
Briefly: Two similar versions of the same tariffs case. What we are waiting on is whether SCOTUS will hear this case as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Court of Interntional Appeals ruling by a vote of 7-4. “Group of small businesses calls on Supreme Court to decide tariffs case,” SCOTUSblog. With […]
It’s been fashionable to beat up on blue states for their high taxes. But if taxes were the only reason people and companies decided where to locate, why are Boston, San Francisco and New York City not just deserts? I didn’t realize until we moved here that Rhode Island has been the long-time home of […]
There are more stories suggesting that the Democrats are preparing to hang tough in budget negotiations. But it’s not clear if their tough talk is just marketing aimed at appeasing base voters, or if it reflects a newfound commitment to budgetary hardball. Nor is it clear that Democrats have a negotiating strategy that will be […]