Don't get me wrong, we love the extra daylight for all the summer things we do, but looming ahead is the reverse, time change again as we "fall back" and return to standard time. We gain some sleep, but again, it takes time to adjust and now we do the "change our clocks dance"...
The committee has had seven meetings so far in 2024 and, in September, made the first rate cut since the pandemic started. It cut rates again in November. Goldman Sachs is predicting five consecutive cuts, starting in December 2024 and going through June 2025. The FOMC's schedule through th...
The experience of these countries, with total excess mortality from the pandemic far lower than it is in other parts of the world and only a limited need for ongoing restrictions, can make a case that their response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been among the most effective in the world....
On the way to the trail section Caroline and I maintain, I stopped by to check out the fire damage in the north district from last month. The understory is coming back. The canopy is normal. All told, it appears to have been a healthy event for the forest. “Greetings,” said the b...
the situation on the ground, including the government’s handling of the outbreak. Her reporting contradicted the official narrative and provided uncensored, first-hand information about the pandemic. In May 2020, she was arrested by Chinese authorities and sentenced to four years in prison. During...
Life and society is really complex, consequently our message is not so simple such as ”Ranking is good!” or ”Ranking is bad!”. Since we permanently rank ourselves and others and are also being ranked, the message is twofold: how to prepare the possible most objective ranking and how ...
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not," warned Thomas Jefferson.
begins to dampen rates of severe illness and death from the virus. Questions linger about how quickly state and local governments will release businesses from social distancing mandates, and whether interventions like masking requirements will survive what may be the end of the pandemic’s deadliest ...
Excluding a brief slump at the onset of the Covid pandemic, the last time the monthlyhiring ratewas the level seen this summer — 3.3% of the labor force in both June and August — was in October 2013 when the unemployment rate was 7.2%, according to Labor Department data. ...
The “good interesting” occurred early in the month, when I traveled internationally for the first time since the pandemic. I’m a nervous traveler at the best of times (in my defense, I’ve been on many trips that have gone spectacularly awry) and I had halfway talked myself into ...