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Out in the Open Election Officials Strategizing to Undermine 2024 Results
More issues with the upcoming 2024 election. Again in Georgia which had election counting issues in 2020. Now, election deniers are openly planning. Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result, US elections 2024, The Guardian. Emails obtained by the Guardian reveal a behind-the-scenes network of county election officials throughout Georgia coordinating on policy and messaging to both call the results of...
Read More »Out in the Open Election Officials Strategizing to Undermine 2024 Results
More issues with the upcoming 2024 election. Again in Georgia which had election counting issues in 2020. Now, election deniers are openly planning. Network of Georgia election officials strategizing to undermine 2024 result, US elections 2024, The Guardian. Emails obtained by the Guardian reveal a behind-the-scenes network of county election officials throughout Georgia coordinating on policy and messaging to both call the results of...
Read More »Mainstream Economics Ignores Money’s Impact.
Mainstream Economics Ignores Money's Impact.
Read More »Housing sector enters yellow flag “recession watch” territory
– by New Deal democrat Residential construction permits and starts bounced back from their July Hurricane-Beryl affected decline, but housing units under construction declined below the threshold for hoisting a yellow “recession watch” flag for this sector. At the same time, I continue to suspect that we are rising from lows in the most leading metrics, and no “recession warning” is warranted. To begin with, the most leading metric, housing...
Read More »Housing sector enters yellow flag “recession watch” territory
– by New Deal democrat Residential construction permits and starts bounced back from their July Hurricane-Beryl affected decline, but housing units under construction declined below the threshold for hoisting a yellow “recession watch” flag for this sector. At the same time, I continue to suspect that we are rising from lows in the most leading metrics, and no “recession warning” is warranted. To begin with, the most leading metric, housing...
Read More »Is democracy mathematically impossible?
Is democracy mathematically impossible? .[embedded content] Arrow’s impossibility theorem is correct given its ‘rationality assumptions.’ To ‘escape’ this, we must therefore abandon some of these assumptions. The non-dictatorship, independence, and Pareto conditions remain quite unassailable. Arrow himself believed that the independence of irrelevant alternatives condition was the most likely to be modified. One way to do this, without compromising the...
Read More »Why are auto insurance rates going up so much?
Kevin Drum has a short piece on the recent surge in auto insurance rates. He doesn’t offer any explanation in his post, but the comment thread has suggestions:• a combination of increase in bad driving and lack of enforcement;• fender benders are much more costly since all the self-driving gear as well as lane alerts, back up and blind spot cameras, etc., are in the bumpers, windshields and side view mirrors;• the increased number of EVs on the...
Read More »Why are auto insurance rates going up so much?
Kevin Drum has a short piece on the recent surge in auto insurance rates. He doesn’t offer any explanation in his post, but the comment thread has suggestions:• a combination of increase in bad driving and lack of enforcement;• fender benders are much more costly since all the self-driving gear as well as lane alerts, back up and blind spot cameras, etc., are in the bumpers, windshields and side view mirrors;• the increased number of EVs on the...
Read More »Louisiana Senator John Kennedy Goes off the Rails
The boldness of this particular Senator in publicly attacking a person, an American citizen is astonishing. Briefly, the Arab American Institute is a non-profit membership organization that advocates for the interests of Arab-Americans. Founded in 1985 by James Zogby, the brother of pollster John Zogby, the organization is based in Washington, D.C. The organization seeks to increase the visibility of Arab-American involvement and candidates in...
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