…real retail sales for December (essentially, both sides of the consumption coin) reveals both faltered for the second month in a row: Because so many people front-loaded their Christmas spending…

…reveals both rebounded almost exactly from their respective December declines: Many people front-loaded their Christmas spending into October, so the decline in November and December was not too concerning. On…

…warehouse or sitting on the shelf, their increase at a $238.0 billion rate meant that real final sales of GDP were actually smaller by that amount, and hence real final…

…mitigate pathogenic spread. Long term production should rise to meet demand and bring prices down barring further issues both economically and epidemically. Christmas bird will be in the pot regardless….

…clothes—unless of the organic variety—and to seek fibers made of hemp, bamboo, ramie, linen, silk, and lyocell (wood pulp). In greenifying Christmas, one must give up the carbon gluttony of…

…the town council, advisory town council. I think it was Christmas week, as a matter of fact, at the end of ’53, and at the next meeting in January, we…

I’m not a big consumer of liturgical music. I still listen to Handel’s Messiah on Christmas. So it surprised me when I found myself enjoying a boxed set of LPs…

…be terminated. Much of the issue lies with the policy of being on call any time with no time off. For example: Warren Buffett’s BNSF’s old system required workers to…

…on tape that he would “hang f*ckin’ Pelosi from the lamppost,” Speaker Pelosi was lighting the Capitol Christmas tree with fourth-grader Catcuce Micco Tiger, who is a citizen of the…

…into personal time. Time in which to go to the doctor, be with families, and rest from the stress of their job. Since they are on call with little warning,…