There’s more upside momentum ahead, but the economy is going to slow, and that won’t be good for stocks. 

 – by New Deal democrat You may recall that last week I wrote that beginning this week and for the next 6+ months, initial claims would be up against some very tough comparisons from 2023 and would be the ultimate true test of whether there has been unresolved post-pandemic seasonality in the numbers. Well, this week’s numbers suggest the unresolved seasonality hypothesis is still with us, but with considerable ambiguity. Initial claims did...

 – by New Deal democrat You may recall that last week I wrote that beginning this week and for the next 6+ months, initial claims would be up against some very tough comparisons from 2023 and would be the ultimate true test of whether there has been unresolved post-pandemic seasonality in the numbers. Well, this week’s numbers suggest the unresolved seasonality hypothesis is still with us, but with considerable ambiguity. Initial claims did...

Regeringens budget — en spottloska i ansiktet på landets löntagare Regeringen presenterade idag sin budget för år 2025. I de aviserade ‘satsningarna’ går nästan hälften till sänkta skatter för hushållen. Framför allt höginkomsttagare med månadsinkomster på över 60 000 kr får de största skattelättnaderna.  Detta är minst sagt provokativt om man tänker på alla de umbäranden vanliga löntagare genomlidit de senaste åren med höga räntor, dyr mat, nedbantade...

Endless online vitriol has been spilt promoting the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic was somehow either (a) an engineered pathogen or (b) a virus that escaped from a research facility. While those allegations served the interests of the Trump Administration, the actual, you know, scientific data supporting them was non-existant.Now, years later, the sorts of experiments that could have weighed in support of natural origins of the pandemic, the...

Endless online vitriol has been spilt promoting the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic was somehow either (a) an engineered pathogen or (b) a virus that escaped from a research facility. While those allegations served the interests of the Trump Administration, the actual, you know, scientific data supporting them was non-existant.Now, years later, the sorts of experiments that could have weighed in support of natural origins of the pandemic, the...

Some Information U.S. Presidents can not remove the Postmaster General. So, Louis is safe if that is what people and the author of this piece seems to think Biden can do. “The Postmaster General is selected and appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service, which is appointed by the president. The Postmaster General then also sits on the board. The PMG does not serve at the president’s pleasure and can only be dismissed by the...

Some Information U.S. Presidents can not remove the Postmaster General. So, Louis is safe if that is what people and the author of this piece seems to think Biden can do. “The Postmaster General is selected and appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service, which is appointed by the president. The Postmaster General then also sits on the board. The PMG does not serve at the president’s pleasure and can only be dismissed by the...

As a subscriber to The Atlantic in print, I can read a lot of it while sitting on the airplane for hours at a time reading interesting pieces to kill time. Then I will switch over to my book of choice. One of the issues with flying anywhere is the amount of time you are couped up with people you do not know. In a car as a passenger, there are breaks long the way. If you get the wrong seat in a plane, you are stuck. To the question of whether...

As a subscriber to The Atlantic in print, I can read a lot of it while sitting on the airplane for hours at a time reading interesting pieces to kill time. Then I will switch over to my book of choice. One of the issues with flying anywhere is the amount of time you are couped up with people you do not know. In a car as a passenger, there are breaks long the way. If you get the wrong seat in a plane, you are stuck. To the question of whether...