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.
Yup, that works. But :-) I'd already found it via a search on Youtube. Also listened to the Woody Guthrie recordings as well. The photos with the Springsteen are spectacular.
Ha, you are right, That is the problem with not being able to imbed. But if you can find Springsteen's version, I recommend it. And if this was your first encounter with Shel Silverstein, he also has does PG rated stuff for children too
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.
Farmers are begging for farm workers and willing to pay for them. Yet all those rural folks who keep complaining about the economy and illegals won't do the work. As for restaurants/stores, etc., there are hiring signs everywhere. Low unemployment, jobs begging for workers, infrastructure bill finally passed after how many decades of complaints - and Rs are still complaining. They really think Trump and his Pets are gonna do anything for the general population?
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.
Here is how one intractable Trump supporter characterized record low unemployment: last week: "The WORST Labor Shortage In History". Whatever the issue, a glass that was half full for Trump is always half empty for Biden. Otherwise, objectively Biden's approval rating would be better.
EVERYTHING is Biden's fault, from tornadoes to Covid to whatever. And nothing was ever Trump's fault - it was always those "best" people that he doesn't remember hiring. And Hilary of course.
The one difference with Obama is that he was a popular president for the most part. And Dems weren't, for the most part, saying he needed to do better (conveniently forgetting that Obama actually had majority that let him do, for the most part again, what he wanted to do.).
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.
On food, I recommend reading some Michael Pollan or watching Food Inc. We pay so much less now for food (say last 10-15 years) than anytime post-WW2 (as a percentage of disposable income), but it has definitely come at a cost to sustainability and health. I think our monopsonistic food system has really been exposed the past couple years.
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.
"...price gouging by businesses that could get away with it..."
Oh, no, Eva. Say it ain't so. You're burstin' my bubble here!!! They wouldn't actually do something like *that*, would they? Why, it's positively un-patri...uh, un-Ameri...uh...unfai...uh...never mind.
I think in light of the "get away with it" part, 'understandable' might have been the word I was looking for there. And, I might add rather sadly, not unexpected.
And though slowing or stopping inflationary pressures may be a good thing--- having lived through many inflationary periods--- I doubt that we will see the prices of anything go down significantly.
Worse might be coming. RE prices have been increasing wildly like they did under Bush 2. Yesterday, I saw an article that implied the bubble might be bursting again.
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...
Mark Meadows is dishonest to his core. Even if he flips, he'd just as likely lie to the committee or to DOJ. Still...I have this fantasy that the reason they did the unexpected hearing and we heard so much from Cassidy Hutchinson was that DOJ was getting close to indicting Meadows.
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
I just tried to apply for an I-bond and they made me get a paper form filled out at my bank because they couldn’t confirm my identity from the electronic form. I feel it’s probably a conspiracy by the gov trying to slow down people buying them since they want to avoid paying 9% interest…
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
Your link is not Springsteen, not even close.
Maybe this one will work
https://youtu.be/LkQzsDav-oI
Yup, that works. But :-) I'd already found it via a search on Youtube. Also listened to the Woody Guthrie recordings as well. The photos with the Springsteen are spectacular.
Ha, you are right, That is the problem with not being able to imbed. But if you can find Springsteen's version, I recommend it. And if this was your first encounter with Shel Silverstein, he also has does PG rated stuff for children too
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.
Farmers are begging for farm workers and willing to pay for them. Yet all those rural folks who keep complaining about the economy and illegals won't do the work. As for restaurants/stores, etc., there are hiring signs everywhere. Low unemployment, jobs begging for workers, infrastructure bill finally passed after how many decades of complaints - and Rs are still complaining. They really think Trump and his Pets are gonna do anything for the general population?
We know they won't.
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.
Here is how one intractable Trump supporter characterized record low unemployment: last week: "The WORST Labor Shortage In History". Whatever the issue, a glass that was half full for Trump is always half empty for Biden. Otherwise, objectively Biden's approval rating would be better.
Probably due Roe v Wade. We would have more workers if selfish women would just have more babies.
EVERYTHING is Biden's fault, from tornadoes to Covid to whatever. And nothing was ever Trump's fault - it was always those "best" people that he doesn't remember hiring. And Hilary of course.
Remember, it always used to be Obama's fault. Always. Now Biden. Trump always got a pass.
The one difference with Obama is that he was a popular president for the most part. And Dems weren't, for the most part, saying he needed to do better (conveniently forgetting that Obama actually had majority that let him do, for the most part again, what he wanted to do.).
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.
On food, I recommend reading some Michael Pollan or watching Food Inc. We pay so much less now for food (say last 10-15 years) than anytime post-WW2 (as a percentage of disposable income), but it has definitely come at a cost to sustainability and health. I think our monopsonistic food system has really been exposed the past couple years.
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.
"...price gouging by businesses that could get away with it..."
Oh, no, Eva. Say it ain't so. You're burstin' my bubble here!!! They wouldn't actually do something like *that*, would they? Why, it's positively un-patri...uh, un-Ameri...uh...unfai...uh...never mind.
I think in light of the "get away with it" part, 'understandable' might have been the word I was looking for there. And, I might add rather sadly, not unexpected.
And though slowing or stopping inflationary pressures may be a good thing--- having lived through many inflationary periods--- I doubt that we will see the prices of anything go down significantly.
Worse might be coming. RE prices have been increasing wildly like they did under Bush 2. Yesterday, I saw an article that implied the bubble might be bursting again.
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...
Mark Meadows is dishonest to his core. Even if he flips, he'd just as likely lie to the committee or to DOJ. Still...I have this fantasy that the reason they did the unexpected hearing and we heard so much from Cassidy Hutchinson was that DOJ was getting close to indicting Meadows.
Be still my heart!
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.
I just tried to apply for an I-bond and they made me get a paper form filled out at my bank because they couldn’t confirm my identity from the electronic form. I feel it’s probably a conspiracy by the gov trying to slow down people buying them since they want to avoid paying 9% interest…