Short article on Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth.Daily KosThe Deficit, the National Debt, and why we don’t have to worry about them.John Rudden

This is just a partial of a much longer commentary by Health Affairs on Employer healthcare insurance for single employees am employees with families. “Health Benefits In 2024: Higher Premiums Persist, Employer Strategies for GLP-1 Coverage and Family-Building Benefits,” Health Affairs. I have used two of the charts to emphasis what is occurring. The first chart will show the variance between single and family coverage 1999-1924. The second chart...

Cut 80 percent of government? Sounds good, but what if we cut 80% of Tesla‘s customers? 

Real aggregate payrolls and inflation preview for September  – by New Deal democrat Tomorrow consumer prices for September will be reported. It’s almost certain that the best short term forecasting tool from the employment report, real aggregate payrolls, will increase once again. Let’s take a more detailed look. Post-pandemic, nominally aggregate payrolls have increased relentlessly. Consumer prices increased almost as relentlessly until...

On the East Coast of Florida, but we’re starting to feel the wind here too. 

Regeringens särskilda utredare Peter Honeth vill att antagningskraven till landets lärarutbildningar skärps. Han vill också att innehållet i utbildningarna på universiteten och högskolorna förändras. – Det är för lätt att komma in och många studenter kommer in med dåliga kunskaper. De klarar inte av studierna, de hoppar av, säger han. Dagens lärarutbildningar infördes 2011, och enligt regeringen förbereder den inte lärarna tillräckligt bra för deras arbete i skolorna. En...

While I was raised Roman Catholic, I had already rejected the RCC teaching on abortion by the time I started high school. That teaching was not grounded in the Bible, nor was it grounded in biological science.Most human conceptuses never make it to term, making God the greatest abortionist of all time. And mammalian stem cells have the potential to develop into a complete animal in every case where it’s been tested, so destroying a “potential” human...

October 8, 2022 by Prof. Heather Cox-Richardson Letters from an American “It’s been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates for president sit down with 60 Minutes in October,” host Scott Pelley said to the camera last night before 60 Minutes aired an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. This year, both Harris and Republican nominee former president Donald Trump accepted an invitation for an...

Total destruction from wind and storm surge likely in my area. 

Introduction to how the Netherlands are going about to fix a housing shortage issue. Topping involves adding another floor or layer to an already existing building in the Netherlands for housing purposes. According to government officials, the results of such an effort is great: at least 100,000 homes can be realized with topping up. Topping is also popular in the Netherlands according to the government. More and more municipalities, housing...