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The May 2026 jobs report was stronger than expected, shifting the interest-rate conversation away from cuts and back toward inflation risk.

A 2026 update on whether the economy may avoid recession soon, with labor market, GDP, industrial production, and leading indicator charts.

A 2026 update on global income and wealth per person, comparing the 2012 snapshot with current GDP, wealth, poverty, and inequality data.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve started to make some websites and apps using ChatGPT, and I’ve been very excited about it, but there have been some problems using ChatGPT. Sometimes it will just keep repeating the same mistakes again and again, even after you tell it about the mistake, so tonight I started using Gemini and tested it out on a mistake that ChatGPT was making.The mistake was that I asked it to make a text box that uses the CK editor,

More reasons it will happen than won't

There are plenty of reasons to be positive.

It is approaching

We have been living in a fantasy about job creators, and our understanding needs to change.

Inflation makes paying it off easier

here is a recently released tape of how he saw a developing strategy of racism

A sarcastic note about political fear after Obama was elected.

Romney was a HUGE proponent and recipient of government spending for the Olympics at the local, stat

The acceptance of racism through silence while others spread racist propaganda is the #1 reason I wi

If you add all the money we are spending on prisons...

As I watch people debate about the elections...

It's back!

When you look at Capitalism you can't help but look at Game Theory. Players can come to dominate the game. Then the idea that capitalism always achieves maximum gain becomes invalid. There is a role of governments to regulate and adjudicate the game. That is not Socialism, but rather makes the "triumph of capitalism" possible.

If there were a worldwide redistribution of income today in which every man, woman and child earned

It is estimated that 2000 guns per day are flowing illegally across the border into Mexico, a large percentage of those weapons being semi-automatic rifles similar the one used in today's shooting in Aurora. These guns are being used to kills cops, so much so that the cops cover their faces so they or their families will not be hunted down and killed. There are some guns like a pistol with a low capacity clip that make sense for an individual to

I've heard a similar message coming from Elizabeth Warren, but this one comes from Obama. People who are wealthy and successful got there because of the many people who made that possible which likely includes people who work much harder and face even greater challenges. The heros in our society should be the people help others when nobody will help them, people who are guided by their heart, not their quest for power and wealth.Here is the quote