…buying less lavish Christmas gifts, or by postponing purchase of a new car.  Raising interest rates mostly hits home construction, and the purchase of durable goods on credit (a new…

Goodbye 117th Congress  Merry Christmas, you all. So, the 117th Congress is done, and Nancy Pelosi is ending her historic run as Speaker of the House.  It passed more legislation…

…Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! There will be a few economic releases in the next week, but don’t be surprised if I take a few days off. “New Deal…

…children, and babies in this country. We are teetering between horror and numbness as mass shootings with weapons of war devastate one community after another. There seem to be few…

My daughter gave me Emma Southon’s book “A fatal thing happened on the way to the forum” for Christmas. Apart from my longtime interest in history, there was a particular…

…in January’s jobs report, here are initial claims non-seasonally adjusted (red) as well as the seasonally adjusted number: This week was the first time since Christmas week that the number…

…corps just a few years before Operation Barbarossa and he ignored warnings of the invasion. Setting aside the fact that Stalin’s industrialization failed to penetrate most of the vast landmass…

…would violate the health privacy law known as HIPAA. Walter died shortly before Christmas last year. NaviHealth did not respond directly to STAT’s questions about the use of its algorithm….

…since 2006. Typically the Index slowly increases during the year, with major seasonal fluctuations around the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas-New Year’s. Here’s what it looks like since January…

…weapons of war devastate one community after another. There seem to be few gathering places where “the unthinkable” is no longer unthinkable. A reporter who was in Georgia to cover…