I’ve been a big fan of airline travel and have flown hundreds of times on commercial flights for business and pleasure over the past five decades. Not anymore: “The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal […]

I grabbed a few of the charts from this recent Gallup ECI report not so much to do a political viewpoint. Just watching the massive layoffs at the US Government which will certainly impact the nation’s Unemployment numbers. That layoff was bad enough when measured against the respect for people. It will have an economic […]

Can Trump Tank the Biden Economy? Here Are Eight Ways – by Dean Baker CEPR President Biden handed off the best economy to an incoming president since at least the 2001 handoff from Clinton to Bush II. In his last quarter in office, GDP grew at a 2.3 percent annual rate (final demand, which excludes […]

A piece I believe capsulizes what many of us are wondering. Where are our politicians, Senators, Representatives, and healthcare people. Why are they so silent as Trump and his keeper Musk slowly disassemble the nation. There are consequences to this. It will not be Trump, Musk, Congress, or doctors and healthcare who will bear the […]

David Frum’s piece in The Atlantic (to which I subscribe) appears to believe the Covid deniers did win. I tend to disagree with his findings. For example and strictly on deaths alone he notes . . . “once vaccines were introduced, Republicans became much more likely to die than Democrats. In the spring of 2021, […]

There’s no question that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans. Whether that jump was direct or indirect and whether it occurred in a lab or in the Wuhan wet market is unknown. The Chinese government has been less than completely forthcoming about the COVID 19 epidemiology. There’s no question that bird flu can jump from […]

February 15, 2025 – by Prof. Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American After World War II, the vast majority of Americans (Democrats and Republicans alike) agreed that the federal government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. But not everyone was on board. Some big businessmen […]

The Perfect Storm in Home Insurance | Econofact The Issue: The Los Angeles fires, perhaps the costliest weather-related event in U.S. history, started just a few months after Hurricane Helene which ranked among the top 10 costliest hurricanes to batter the United States. And while hurricanes and wildfires command the most attention, severe convective storms (those traditional hailstorms […]

I grew up in the South. While there were no snake handlers in my town, there were fundamentalists in the area who practiced snake handling. I see no significant difference between those snake handlers in East Tennessee and folks in West Texas who refuse to vaccinate their kids for preventable diseases. Both are tempting God, […]

I did not know Greta Thunberg had $billions and owned companies that our present VP alludes to in his statement. Greta has not been standing next to the German Chancellor the same as Musk does in the Oval Office and next to the President. This while his young son plays there and picks his nose. […]