Conditioning – by Jim Bratten
This week, one year after the pandemic lockdown was forced on a majority of Americans, many will see another deposit in their bank accounts, whether they need it or not; $1,400 this time, to a…
This week, one year after the pandemic lockdown was forced on a majority of Americans, many will see another deposit in their bank accounts, whether they need it or not; $1,400 this time, to a…
This election presents the most starkly opposite choices; not simply between major political parties or two very different candidates, but between two diametrically opposed realities. Three current issues illustrate the dichotomies best: the economy, the…
Biden and Harris are copying President Trump. “Make it in America” is their new motto, mimicking Trump’s recovery theme. Except for the name, all similarity disappears. During Obama/Biden, we lost 494,000 manufacturing jobs in eight…
The August Jobs Report is good. The number of Americans unemployed is down to 13.6 million. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.4%, well below expectations. There were 1,371,000 jobs added in August and, since May,…
The June, 2020 jobs report: 4.8 million jobs added (the largest single month gain in U.S. history) and a drop in the unemployment rate to 11.1%. Last month, 2.1 million leisure and hospitality jobs, 740,000…
Lockdown Land vs. Looting Land: A business owner in “Lockdown Land” was penalized when his store was forced to close because of the Wuhan virus scare. When he began to open again, his hopes were…
The whole world, except for maybe a few people on some deserted island off the subterranean coast of Namor’s Atlantis, has seen Avengers Endgame, the highest grossing movie of all time… and based on the…
The jobs report for May is out and establishment economists, with a press hungry to damage Trump, are in stunned disbelief. A 7.8 million job loss in May, predicted by doom-and-gloom cheerleaders, didn’t happen. “Jobs…
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s private pandemic response is to reward Red China with more visas – E5-B visas – also called, “selling citizenship through visas for the wealthy and connected.” Graham wants more temporary workers,…
Last week there were 6.64 million claims for unemployment, double the 3.3 million the week before. The end of March saw 701,000 jobs lost, bringing the unemployment rate up to 4.4%. The “cure” of shuttered…