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Job Creation Slows To A Crawl: Monthly Avg: 35,000 over Past 3 Months
Via: Bob Nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • last year
“Unemployment ticks up, manufacturing slumping, and participation rates and down. It's not break glass yet, but it's remind yourself where you put...”
There's been a bit of chortling among NT's MAGAs, about tariff doom-saying being proved wrong. Hold my beer... You know how an airplane can follow a hyperbolic curve, giving its passengers a form of "free-fall"? Kinda cheating with the laws of physics? But not really, because when the plane...
Krugman Twofer
By: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 3 Likes • last year
“The Media Can’t Handle the Absence of TruthTrump/Brazil: Delusions of Grandeur Go South”
Trump was with von der Leyen when he announced an American victory and insulted half of Europe. I watched von der Leyen. She remained utterly expressionless. Kinda like a duck letting the rain fall... and not caring one iota. In the days since, the EU has rolled back almost everything. A...
Why Did Truman Support Civil Rights?
Via: Bob Nelson • History & Sociology • 17 Comments • 4 Likes • last year
“Truman’s domestic agenda attempted to solve the problem of Black American oppression while undermining the progressive wing of the Democratic Party”
I'd never really thought about Truman being a politician from the South, and therefore probably not exactly a fan of the Civil Right Movement. I just knew all the good he did. This explains it.
Innocence, identity, and blood libel (part 2)
Via: Bob Nelson • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • last year
“All of the pundits I mentioned in Monday’s post — David French, Cheryl Rofer, and Josh Marshall — are or have been NatSec people, students or...”
Part 1 is here. This brilliantly explains why MAGAs behave as they do. Read carefully. The text is dense. ... when we, instead, cling to our determination to always think of ourselves as The Good People, and how dare anyone question that? — we sink deeper into that cardinal sin of pride...
New York Times's "Climate Forward"
Via: Bob Nelson • Environment/Climate • 12 Comments • 2 Likes • last year
“Weekly recap of major limate-change news”
Anyone, today, saying "cars don't pollute" is like a 16th century doctor saying "bleeding will cure you". It's blatantly stupid. That doctor, at least, was not ignoring stacks of hard data.
Innocence, identity, and blood libel (part 1)
Via: Bob Nelson • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“Three commentators recently discussed the ongoing furor demanding the release of The Epstein Files* in ways that brought each of them closer to...”
People feel a need to ascribe evil motives, and even evil deeds, to those they disagree with. Accuse the Jews of killing Christ... and suddenly you're almost holy when you steal all their possessions and expel them from the country.
Understanding Interest Rate Policy
Via: Bob Nelson • Stock Market & Investments • 1 Comments • last year
“When rates should rise or fall”
Sometimes it's easy to assume people know stuff because "everyone knows that...". But there's lots of unknown knowledge floating around. So here's a quick trip back to Econ101.
As U.S. Retreats on Climate, China and Europe Pledge to Go Green Together
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“A joint statement promised new efforts to cut emissions at a time when China is positioning itself as the world’s one-stop shop for clean energy...”
While the Trump Administration retreats into the 19th Century, the EU and China choose a path to the future. It is all so very, very STUPID!
MAGA doesn't build anything
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 1 Like • last year
“Why I think this political movement isn't going anywhere in the long term”
Years ago, I spent a month posting progressive ideas in various policy domains. I asked our conservative - this was before MAGA - members for their alternatives. I posted about ten of these. I didn't get a single conservative counter-proposition. Every once in a while, since, I have...