Economics Needs New Terminology For Today’s Inflation: ‘Greedflation’
Lydia DePillis in an op-ed at the New York Times explains, Is ‘Greedflation’ Rewriting Economics, or Do Old Rules Still Apply? There are few good things about living through a period with the highest inflation in four decades, but here’s one: It’s a chance to re-examine what happens in an economy that’s gone haywire. Since … Read more
The Biden Boom Continues – We Have Almost Fully Recovered From The Pandemic Recession
The May jobs report was released on Friday, and the good news is that US Added 390,000 Jobs in May as Hiring Remained Robust: U.S. employers added 390,000 jobs in May, extending a streak of solid hiring that has bolstered an economy under pressure from high inflation and rising interest rates. Last month’s gain reflects … Read more
Meet Peter Thiel’s ‘New Right’ Puppet, Blake Masters
Peter Thiel’s new right puppet, Blake Masters Blames Gun Violence on ‘Black People, Frankly’ (The Daily Beast): Tech investor and Arizona Republican Senate hopeful Blake Masters acknowledges that the United States has a gun violence problem. But he also has a theory about why there’s a problem—it’s “Black people, frankly.” Masters boiled the issue down … Read more
Another View of Arizona’s Bizzaro World GQP-Controlled Legislature
Update to Days After A Massacre Of Fourth Graders, Arizona Senate Republicans Kill Democratic Attempt For A Background Checks Bill. Fernanda Santos writes in an op-ed at the Washington Post, What the Arizona GOP’s response to Uvalde reveals: Republican legislators in Arizona have offered more than thoughts and prayers to the innocent victims massacred in … Read more
SCOTUS Watch: Low Hanging Fruit Opinion Day
The Court began the day with 33 outstanding cases to be decided, well behind the curve for announcing opinions this late in the year. And then there were 30. A cursory review of the Order List today did not have anything that jumped out at me as particulalry interesting. The first opinion was Siegel v. … Read more
Democracy is Under a Full-Blown Attack
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A Democratic Majority Will Create a Stable Democracy
We are in a struggle to protect our democracy. This is a global struggle, not just in Arizona or the United States. It’s worldwide, and we cannot fail to recognize that and respond accordingly. Here’s a brief history lesson. Republics have been around since the days of the ancient Greek city-states, or Rome, just before … Read more
