The whole inflation debate is beyond my paygrade. But this isn't the seventies.
Just ran across a youtube video that is perfect for this 4th. It is Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land. For a song with such a simple melody it is incredibly hard to sing and get it right. Bruce Springsteen does a masterful job.
Re: Meadows, well, it's sort of obvious, no? Once all the "adults" cycled thru the Trump admin, who was left? It was either going to be Meadows, Mike Lindell, or Pennywise the clown.
Considering the economy. This happened to me last Thurs. I went to a popular restaurant, without a reservation. It seemed busy so we waited for a table. "As soon one becomes available its your's:, the hostess said. I walked into the restaurant and a large section was empty tables. I asked the hostess about this and she said we don't have enough staff to service a full restaurant. I told my son who works in a popular restaurant and he said they do same thing. Well it makes sense they would raise prices since they are serving fewer people and they have to pay to to keep the staff they have. Is this Biden's fault? Maybe due to illegal Mexicans who are still stuck on the other side of the border. Be prepared for more expensive wine since they're short grape pickers.
JVL-Was already a subscriber to Noahpinion and Slack Tide based on your recommendations, now a subscriber to JoeBlogs thanks to this recommendation. Reminds me of the days of reading Goren on Bridge and the fly-fishing articles purely out of my youthful obsession with reading SI all the way through.
My 8-year-old granddaughter has asked me to teach her to play chess, so I may well invest in a Chess-Up board and app.
You’re killing my in-box and fixed-income bank account, Smalls.
Oh, dear! I’m sure there’s some way that can be made into bad news for President Biden. I haven’t looked at Twitter in several days. Perhaps someone already has.
JoPo is a treasure. I grew up in Kansas City where he spent nearly two decades writing for the Star. I don’t know what happened to his KC Star counterpart Jason Whitlock. When Whitlock wrote for the Star he was always provocative but enjoyable. Posnanski has always been awesome.
I saw a piece comparing this period to the 1946-1949 period just after WWII in terms of disrupted supply chains, a vast pool of money chasing very few consumer goods--all those wages during WWII with nothing to buy, so people were sitting on big fat savings accounts, and then wanted houses, cars, furniture, etc. after years of deferring major purchases due to depression and then war. It took a couple of years for industry to re-tool and for domestic supplies to ramp up.
If we can straighten out our domestic oil and gas production so that we aren't importing any, and possibly exporting LNG to Europe, energy prices should stabilize.
Maybe it's just that I'm old, but it has seemed to me for a long time that food prices have been artificially low, and that we were due to some reversion to the historical mean. The correction will be painful in the short run, but if it results in a more sustainable system then it's not all bad.
Matt Labash's Slack Tide about Mark Meadows is perfect. It made some readers / commenters uncomfortable, and some seemed to turn away before a complete read. But Matt's purpose is to keep the Slack Tide community reasonably informed as well as entertained. Subscribe to Slack Tide. I always look forward to reading Matt's work.
Well, gas went down 10¢/gal this week at the Circle K station. Ditto milk at the supermarket. And the price of Barefoot Wine never did increase. Based on the items that did increase, I suspect a whole lot of price gouging by businesses that could get away with it - gas being the top of the list.
As much as I want to see Meadows in prison (and I want that so very very much), can you imagine if he was flipped? The stories! oh the stories he could tell.
I supposed everyone involved in Jan 6 is making some sort of calculus along the lines of, "Can I stay out of prison for the next couple years, until Trump is back in the presidency and can pardon me?" But for Meadows, apparently he _already_ asked for a pardon and didn't get one. Thus it seems like his only recourse is to ask for immunity and testify. We already know he's a coward and morally bankrupt, so it shouldn't take much work for the Justice Dept to persuade him.
At least, that's the sort of vision I like to indulge in. These days it's hard to be cheerful about anything.
And a postscript - Yes we all want Trump to be held accountable. But dang it there are so many other people who also need some justice served on their a55es...
Re: Hutchinson beseeching Meadows to do something: Why would Meadows do anything to stop a crime he was complicit in? The same goes for Ornato. Does anyone think Trump's Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff were kept in the dark about plans?
I’ve been reading Noah’s articles for years and appreciate his accessible deep dives (for lay people) into economics and culture. Lately — and especially in these seemingly rather dark times — I’ve noticed that he’s one of the few balanced voices highlighting positive forces without sounding boosterish. Plus he writes about his rabbits and that is always a good thing. Everyone should get themselves a rabbit. https://twitter.com/lpasch/status/1348007400104734720?s=21&t=lYFBu4v8b5TI83idfAIsiw
The whole inflation debate is beyond my paygrade. But this isn't the seventies.
Just ran across a youtube video that is perfect for this 4th. It is Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land. For a song with such a simple melody it is incredibly hard to sing and get it right. Bruce Springsteen does a masterful job.
https://youtu.be/ohFHsOBuLc4
I am fingers crossed this article is on point.
Unrelated - but any comment on this FEC guy and his 'ethics'? https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-integrity-trey-trainor-federal-election-commission-fec-2022-6
Re: Meadows, well, it's sort of obvious, no? Once all the "adults" cycled thru the Trump admin, who was left? It was either going to be Meadows, Mike Lindell, or Pennywise the clown.
“…swampland timeshare hustler.”
Considering the economy. This happened to me last Thurs. I went to a popular restaurant, without a reservation. It seemed busy so we waited for a table. "As soon one becomes available its your's:, the hostess said. I walked into the restaurant and a large section was empty tables. I asked the hostess about this and she said we don't have enough staff to service a full restaurant. I told my son who works in a popular restaurant and he said they do same thing. Well it makes sense they would raise prices since they are serving fewer people and they have to pay to to keep the staff they have. Is this Biden's fault? Maybe due to illegal Mexicans who are still stuck on the other side of the border. Be prepared for more expensive wine since they're short grape pickers.
JVL-Was already a subscriber to Noahpinion and Slack Tide based on your recommendations, now a subscriber to JoeBlogs thanks to this recommendation. Reminds me of the days of reading Goren on Bridge and the fly-fishing articles purely out of my youthful obsession with reading SI all the way through.
My 8-year-old granddaughter has asked me to teach her to play chess, so I may well invest in a Chess-Up board and app.
You’re killing my in-box and fixed-income bank account, Smalls.
Oh, dear! I’m sure there’s some way that can be made into bad news for President Biden. I haven’t looked at Twitter in several days. Perhaps someone already has.
JoPo is a treasure. I grew up in Kansas City where he spent nearly two decades writing for the Star. I don’t know what happened to his KC Star counterpart Jason Whitlock. When Whitlock wrote for the Star he was always provocative but enjoyable. Posnanski has always been awesome.
That mate is fire. I wish my dad had taught me how to do that. He tried but never got there but it's always really fun when someone let's you try.
I saw a piece comparing this period to the 1946-1949 period just after WWII in terms of disrupted supply chains, a vast pool of money chasing very few consumer goods--all those wages during WWII with nothing to buy, so people were sitting on big fat savings accounts, and then wanted houses, cars, furniture, etc. after years of deferring major purchases due to depression and then war. It took a couple of years for industry to re-tool and for domestic supplies to ramp up.
If we can straighten out our domestic oil and gas production so that we aren't importing any, and possibly exporting LNG to Europe, energy prices should stabilize.
Maybe it's just that I'm old, but it has seemed to me for a long time that food prices have been artificially low, and that we were due to some reversion to the historical mean. The correction will be painful in the short run, but if it results in a more sustainable system then it's not all bad.
Matt Labash's Slack Tide about Mark Meadows is perfect. It made some readers / commenters uncomfortable, and some seemed to turn away before a complete read. But Matt's purpose is to keep the Slack Tide community reasonably informed as well as entertained. Subscribe to Slack Tide. I always look forward to reading Matt's work.
Well, gas went down 10¢/gal this week at the Circle K station. Ditto milk at the supermarket. And the price of Barefoot Wine never did increase. Based on the items that did increase, I suspect a whole lot of price gouging by businesses that could get away with it - gas being the top of the list.
As much as I want to see Meadows in prison (and I want that so very very much), can you imagine if he was flipped? The stories! oh the stories he could tell.
I supposed everyone involved in Jan 6 is making some sort of calculus along the lines of, "Can I stay out of prison for the next couple years, until Trump is back in the presidency and can pardon me?" But for Meadows, apparently he _already_ asked for a pardon and didn't get one. Thus it seems like his only recourse is to ask for immunity and testify. We already know he's a coward and morally bankrupt, so it shouldn't take much work for the Justice Dept to persuade him.
At least, that's the sort of vision I like to indulge in. These days it's hard to be cheerful about anything.
And a postscript - Yes we all want Trump to be held accountable. But dang it there are so many other people who also need some justice served on their a55es...
Re: Hutchinson beseeching Meadows to do something: Why would Meadows do anything to stop a crime he was complicit in? The same goes for Ornato. Does anyone think Trump's Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff were kept in the dark about plans?
I’ve been reading Noah’s articles for years and appreciate his accessible deep dives (for lay people) into economics and culture. Lately — and especially in these seemingly rather dark times — I’ve noticed that he’s one of the few balanced voices highlighting positive forces without sounding boosterish. Plus he writes about his rabbits and that is always a good thing. Everyone should get themselves a rabbit. https://twitter.com/lpasch/status/1348007400104734720?s=21&t=lYFBu4v8b5TI83idfAIsiw
And I bought an I-bond. Dang it. Well, I get my 9.6% interest for six months at least.