My Position . . . .No matter what your level of authority, you do not arbitrarily shoot people. You do not get to shoot civilians. You error on the side of life and not death. It is obvious Bump was not trained to understand such. There are no fantasies or stories which can be told […]
The other day, I was getting my semi-annual cleaning at the dentist office. When the hygienist asked what I did before retirement, I told her I was a medical school professor. That touched off a 15-minute interrogation about childhood vaccination. She has an infant daughter. While she’s gotten all the recommended vaccines, she was plainly […]
– by New Deal democrat Yesterday’s JOLTS report for November was not stale inasmuch as it was at best delayed by a week or two. But nevertheless, since it was for November it remains somewhat old news that can only help to confirm other data we have already received. Last month I concluded that the […]
Secondarily, J.P. McJefferson gives the specific reasons why Republicans are holding the bag on being responsible for governmental and political leadership. It is difficult to imagine why they fall in line with Trump and Miller’s demands. Comment extracted from an earlier post. “Republicans en mass are responsible for the complete chaos of the American government,” […]
– by New Deal democrat Let’s take our weekly look at jobless claims, which are the best up-to-the-moment measure of the labor market. Initial claims rose 8,000 to 208,000, while the four week moving average declined -7,250 to 211,750. With the typical one week delay, continuing claims rose 56,000 to 1.914 million: Number of Initial […]
I am hoping the author will grant us an allowance to follow-up on some of the commentaries as this is an important topic. Most Americans are not aware of the impact they have on the areas around them. I see this as one way of making them aware of their impact. A review of species […]
– by New Deal democrat As I indicated yesterday and earlier today, we got some stale data on factory orders this morning, as well as a JOLTS report for November. I’ll take a look at those tomorrow. In the meantime, the big news of the morning has to be the very good ISM services report for […]
AB: J.P. McJefferson’s comment in reply to a commentary by Ken Melvin, “The Republicans.” Ken, you are so right that Republicans en masse are the responsible party for the complete chaos of the American government. This great experiment of government, with its brilliantly designed checks and balances, was prepared to handle the misguided course of […]
“Southwest’s disappearing precipitation is also due to human-driven climate change,” University of Michigan News To end the Colorado River Basin’s megadrought, ‘we just need to stop climate change,’ a U-M expert says. ‘We know how to stop it and it’s not too late to stop it.’ Like much of the southwestern U.S., the Colorado River […]
– by New Deal democrat I will write about the biggest economic release of the day, the ISM services report for December, later. In the meantime, here are two other important data releases for December, one from a private source (ADP), and the other from the BEA’s GDP updates. As an initial matter, I don’t […]