I have been silenced all day. I have watched the numbers climb for the virus and plummet in the markets. Just watching it burning. As I try to sweep away the speculative and stick to just the numbers, data not drama, it solves nothing. What’s left as a best case Read more…
So that went as predicted. All Hail the Chief! Joe is the last man standing in the contest to see who has the privilege of attempting to save the citizens from themselves. The guessing game of who will be his VP choice will go on in force, and our President Read more…
Yesterday’s update on the novel coronavirus outbreak from the Administration’s team started with the President praising the beauty of the day and then announcing that the Fed had announced a reduction of the baseline interest rate to 0-0.25%, and that made him very happy. He was in a chipper mood. Read more…
Stalemate. No matter who you support you will have enough justification to believe your candidate won the debate. Nothing will change on Tuesday. Bernie made his case, that it’s about the money, but he has made it before and it certainly wasn’t the breakthrough performance he needed to stem the Read more…
Last Dance or Hail Mary? Pick a metaphor Bernie. It’s all on the table tonight. Senator Sanders will take the last debate as far as he can, looking for a knock-out and hoping for a disastrous mistake by Joe. The latter seems less likely than it once did. Biden has Read more…
My URL is intended to be double speak, winking at gradually getting older while implying my progressive roots and aspirations. Time for some aspirational exercise. There is the slimmest possibility that in this difficult time for the country some realization that we are all in this together will germinate, even Read more…
My, but we Americans are a hearty bunch. In spite of readily available information agressively broadcast, global outcomes that repeat themselves from country to country that can be seen and studied, we maintain the Myth of Exceptionalism even at our own peril. Sure, Italy is a mess, but that won’t Read more…
Another day goes by. We are down to four states with no reported cases. They will soon lose their distinction. Financial news and futures are worse. I’m feeling bleak, if I’m honest, and I think I could easily justify the mood, but I won’t. I’m going to push back instead Read more…
The NBA has suspended its’ season. The NCAA tournament will be played without spectators. Does that sound like the flu? I spent the day in close contact with the public and my colleagues and was appalled at the number of people who were poo-pooing the novel coronavirus as an overblown Read more…
In a previous post today I may have gotten one thing wrong. I assumed Bernie would win Washington. I don’t think he will. It’s midnight and they are statistically tied which is a very ugly proposition for the senator. The rest I kind of saw coming. It is a pretty Read more…