Yes, yesterdays raise in the interest rate was small - 25 basis points or a quarter-point in regular person (instead of bankers/economists) language. Still, it's been bugging the hell out of me. Unemployment is down at or near historic...
Look, I already know that all of my readers are card carrying Mensa members, otherwise you would never be able to figure out what I'm talking about. But as we celebrate the passage of the Covid relief bill, I...
How often have I written in the past that the GOP's ability to message effectively, and especially preemptively had to turn Democratic stomachs. After all, it was their rapid response messaging of the ACA that led to the astroturf Tea...
Four days to go. Man, talk about the ultimate home stretch, huh? Tell the truth. Back on January 21st, 2021, while we celebrated President Joe Biden's inauguration, and flipped double barrel birds at Traitor Tot as he boarded Marine...
Goodbye party of fiscal conservatism, hello party of chaos hoping to masquerade under the conservative label. This is not, I repeat not, a new development. It's been decades in the making as the old GOP has died out and...
The stock market is the pulse of the world's money. It certainly reflects what's happening in the nervous system of the American economy, and it is minutely sensitive to the vagueries of a certain pair of tiny digits belonging...
Some of you may know that I spent almost 20 years as a pilot's crew scheduler for United Airlines. When I was there, we called it FIFO (First In First Out), some places such as cop shops and prosecutors...
This Sam Blankman dude has been in the news lately. Now he's said to be fighting extradition. If experts are to be believed he'll lose and wind up being brought back to face criminal charges. However it keeps bugging...
It's said that the Devil's greatest accomplishment is convincing people that he doesn't exist. In like fashion the Republican party's greatest achievement is in convincing the working class that it is its friend. Nothing could be farther from the...
August 14 was the worst day of the year for the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 800 points, or 3% and that makes for a net loss of almost 7% in the past three weeks. Additionally,...
