…the buildings in Chicago. I can still splice Manila – hemp ropes up to 1 inch as my hands have growth weaker over the years.) When asked if he felt…

…a few similar to them using rope or cable suspended scaffolds and ladders in downtown or near downtown Chicago. Harvard attorney Claude Scales is the photo-artist-author of this snapshot and…

…schoolboy, Napoleon voraciously inhaled everything he could read about military conflict, including several then-recent books suggesting novel tactics. As a young general, he implemented those tactics to brilliant effect, winning…

by New Deal democrat Q2 Credit conditions were decidedly mixed Credit conditions are one of my categories of long leading indicators. I track the Chicago indexes weekly, but the more…

…much: While the Chicago Adjusted National Financial Conditions Index remains positive: 7. Real retail sales per capita have been flat for a couple of months, but recently increased sharply and…

…neutral this week: credit conditions from the Chicago Fed, the spread between Treasuries and corporate bonds, the Harpex shipping index, the US$, and of course the stock market, which has…

…Center for Spatial Data Science at the University of Chicago, which recently released a U.S. COVID-19 Atlas, providing county-level data on COVID-19 cases to help locate emerging hotspots for the…

…Was McDonald vs. Chicago a factor? Was it the granting of more authority corrupting? The Mayor of Louisville, KY fired the Police Chief because his officers didn’t have their body…

…that reached its apex during the Democratic Convention in Chicago, which was later described as a “police riot” that, among other things, targeted journalists. That was just a few weeks…

…this legacy. Congress needs to address this issue of Police authority. Two US Supreme Court decisions, District of Columbia vs Heller and McDonald vs Chicago, made it more likely that…