July consumer inflation: the second gift horse in a row, with gas prices down again and shelter subdued – by New Deal democrat As I wrote yesterday, July’s CPI was likely to be subdued because on average the price of gas went down further in July. And it was, rising only 0.1% for the month and […]

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Not sure if this is anything special. Just an update by Bill Moyer’s take on railroads. If I get someone of Bill Moyer’s stature mentioning me by my name, I am going to pay attention. Bill writes about railroads these days. And he should. Railroads are one form of transportation in the United States which […]

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The first time I recall using a map was in boy scouts. Travel in unfamiliar places on foot, bike or car required maps for me for decades. The first time I saw GPS in action was when my brother and I were on Ride the Rockies. We were invited to dinner by a friend in […]

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This is one of the issues, I am not an expert on. I know the numbers. If I track them, I can arrive to a conclusion. It is people like New Deal democrat and Dean Baker who can explain them to the degree you may wish to know. They give the reasons why and how […]

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Let’s hand the microphone to Garrett Graff: “Most people think of Jurassic Park as a cautionary tale for science, when really it’s a cautionary tale for corporate trust and safety teams, board oversight, and regulatory compliance. The dinosaurs’ entirely predictable rampage should really be seen as a failure of the security teams and the fence […]

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David Remnick’s interview with a DSA co-chair is an out-of-body experience.

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– by New Deal democrat Tomorrow we’ll get the CPI report for July. At first, I thought this might resume the upward spike of April and May — but maybe not. My “quick and dirty” way to create a back of the envelope estimate of consumer inflation is to divide the change in gas prices (conservatively) […]

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The Citizenship Clause was indeed written to repudiate Dred Scott, the 1857 Supreme Court decision holding that Black people could never be citizens. But the Reconstruction Congress did not swap one caste rule for a narrower one; it extended the promise to “every free-born person in this land.” The idea wasn’t just to retroactively protect […]

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