As I read this and having grown up in Chicago. The layout sounds more like Chicago politics with precincts, districts, Wards, and Aldermen (Alderpersons). There was also a Mayor. Mayor Richard Daley owned Chicago. If you needed something done, you went to see your Alderman. Recommendations came in a similar manner and worked up the […]

All lies and jestStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the rest . . . So what does the public think or believe today about grocery prices? Or are they scared to death after hearing Trumps plans on how to cut excessive spending. Which is the result of cutting taxes due to […]

I’m surprised this hasn’t bubbled up sooner. Not only has immigration been a net strength for America throughout its history (unless you’re a Native American), but in the last three decades, immigrants—particularly from China and India—have fueled American biotech and computer technology innovation. So when I read Trump and his supporters vilifying immigrants and threatening […]

 – by New Deal democrat This Christmas week initial claims declined -1,000 to 219,000. The four week average rose 1,000 to 226,500. With the typical one week delay, continuing claims 46,000 to 1.910 million, the highest number in over 3 years: On the YoY% basis more important for forecasting purposes, initial claims were up 2.8%, […]

Too lengthy to include the entire article. I did get the part were Louisiana Gov. Landry and his appointed doctors are all decrying vaccinations in general claiming they can cause autism. In case you did not know (and I am sure Joel will back this up, right?) “there is no link between childhood vaccinations and […]

 – by New Deal democrat I’ve been looking at new and existing home sales more in tandem recently, as we are looking for a rebalancing of the market, with prices abating in existing home sales and inventory increasing, vs. new houses where prices have been slightly declining. Additionally, as usual let me start with the important […]

Here’s a program to limit out-of-pocket costs and insurer overreach: Put a cap on household spending and put providers on a budget. The ‘skin in the game’ gambit has failed – by Merrill Goozner GoozNews Online vitriol isn’t pretty. But the mass schadenfreude that greeted the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, while cruel […]

(Reuters File Photo) I picked this up while reading the Bangkok Post a newspaper I would pick up while in Thailand working. It is a notable newspaper. The following was printed in a press release by the Office of Public Affairs as released by the US Department of Justice. Justice Department Announces Resolution of Criminal […]

When we food shop, we find ourselves going for the name brands rather than the private brands. We do find a difference in taste comparisons. It has happened enough time in finding some private brands tasting very different from what we are used to eating. Cost is a factor when it comes to canned goods […]

I finished Every Valley: The desperate lives and troubled times that made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King on Christmas Eve. It somehow seemed fitting to read this book in this season, although the oratorio Messiah was originally performed at Easter. I visited Handel’s birthplace in Halle three times in the 1990s, I’ve toured the Handel […]