You shouldn’t have to pay $thousands for healthcare. You should be able to obtain healthcare at a reasonable cost. Millions of citizens have been pushed out of healthcare programs as they were disqualified. There was a time in the past when healthcare costs were better. It has become more of a profit center for corporations. […]
J.P. McJefferson talking Artificial Intelligence. “’We’ve been here before.’ Every generation has its technological scare story.” Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash Why Should I Be Worried About AI? J.P. McJefferson Thoughts For many people, the current anxiety about artificial intelligence feels overblown. They say, “We’ve been here before.” Every generation has its technological scare story. In the […]
Our fearless leader (who never had much to fear in his lifetime) is recasting the economics of this nation more to his liking. There may(?) have been a time year (decades?) ago when doing so would not be much of an issue. This due to the United States economic size and power globally after WWII. […]
Josh Marshall has an interesting piece in TPM on George Washington. It’s the second of two commentaries on Presidents Day. Presidents Day was originally celebrated as George Washington’s Birthday. When the effort to declare Abraham Lincoln’s birthday a national holiday failed, due to opposition from white Southern politicians, Presidents Day replaced Washington’s birthday. In the […]
– by New Deal democrat When I updated this information in September, I wrote that “a puzzling relationship this year has been that the housing data has been classically recessionary for a number of months, and yet the economy has not rolled over.” I concluded that update by noting that while the report was “very much […]
Beating a constant drum here of the Quality and Expense for United Staes healthcare. This short piece by CEPR’s John Schmitt offers excellent and simple graphs presenting the detail of healthcare in the United States versus other countries. Simplistic graphs and numbers for the United States and measured along with other countries. The issue is […]
Two points to this Dan Rather piece (subscriber). President in office should not have things named after them. Gerald Ford declined such. The sitting President Ford vetoed a bill branding things with his name because he believed federal buildings should not be named while he was in office, Neither should Presidents in office add their […]
The deluge of data resumes tomorrow with housing permits and starts, industrial production, and durable goods orders. In the meantime, let me make a few “big picture” observations of the economy, and in particular, the short and longer term trends in inflation and interest rates. – by New Deal democrat 1. Short term inflation A very […]
Could one call this a changing news environment to please political influencers? It sure seems to be swing in that direction. Time will tell . . . “The tragic end of CBS News” Robert Reich Friends, Producer Alicia Hastey departed CBS News Wednesday, saying the work she came to do was “increasingly becoming impossible,” as stories were […]
Review: Ringworld – David Zetland The one-handed economist Sometimes you just want the answer I grabbed this 1970 Sci-Fi novel by Larry Niven based on its recommendation. The book is the first in a series (that I will not continue, given the fact that I am now reading three other series!) on how humans and other aliens […]