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I’m genuinely glad they retained the 11 varsity sports. I think athletics is a terrific add to a world class university. I’m shocked and appalled that they considered the reduction in the first place. They made the right choice, maybe for the wrong reasons and with the wrong process, but all’s well until…next time.
Biden is going to get our economic hats handed to us. Economists were expecting 3.6%, and got 4.2%, highest since 2008. But more to the point, and buried in this article is that last month’s inflation increase was 0.8%, or a 9.6% annualized rate. The monthly gain in core inflation was THE HIGHEST SINCE 1981, the bad old Jimmy Carter years (yes, I know it was Reagan, but his early days reeled from Carter’s idiocies). Make no mistake, we’re about to get crushed. And it didn’t have to happen.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/12/consumer-price-index-april-2021.html
Federal taxes and spending hit a record:
Agreed with your point. But customers don’t vote for CEO. In politics, it’s just a popularity contest. Steve Jobs might have been elected CEO. But Chainsaw Al wouldn’t have been.
Meanwhile, China is buying Africa:
And employers refute Democrat claims on jobs:
U. S. added just 266,000 nonfarm jobs:
https://www.axios.com/april-jobs-report-economy-f56e27dc-7048-43b2-a0ee-5845bb01a7f8.html
[quote quote=4711]Empirical evidence is hard to come by. Jobs? Unless I’m mistaken, 80 million people voted for an increase in the cost of living. We’re just getting started. And now rents are soaring if you can find one. 40% of renters are now delinquent. It’s starting to get away from them.[/quote]
Not starting. Been getting away for a while. 6% of all homes (2.7 million mortgages) were delinquent in February. And of course, a rise is coming:
As of January, 1/4th of all American renters were behind:
We declined both the first and second round of the PPP. Instead, we canned about 23% of our overall staff, took 15% haircuts, and zeroed out all discretionary and semi-discretionary budgets starting last April. Our partners made a sxxt ton of money.
This year, at April month end, we were up over 32% in gross revenue comparing April 21 to April 20, and we are up about 24% year over year in the first four months.
Crazy.
we lobby; we concentrate power; we give our political stooges a raise; we contribute hundreds of millions to targeted get out the vote efforts to protect our puppets.
Apropos of nothing, I worked with an extremely talented consultant who had been both a lobbyist and an attorney, and was using his MBA to further the interests of the Fortune 100 (all Ivy degrees).
He told me that I would be astounded at the low intellect of a large number of the members of Congress, and essentially that we deserved what we received by electing our political leaders through a popularity contest — which did not end in a meritocratic result by any stretch.
BTW Janet Yellen thinks the results of the borrow-and-spend strategy will be just ducky fine:
Yellen insists U.S. will see ‘big returns’ by passing Biden spending proposals (msn.com)
makes you wonder how Kamala kept her job, given her prosecutorial zeal?
Also, I’d idly wondered whether Strzok’s side squeeze Lisa Page ever apologized to his wife, Ms. Hodgeman. Apparently not:
Kamala Harris will be a spectacularly bad President when they finally decide to use the 25th amendment on him. She has zero chops for this line of work. How the rest of the world will take advantage of that twit.
I genuinely write this with love and respect, but this article describes my mother to an absolute T.
This is not a formal database, but it’s interesting nonetheless. It purports to track people killed in the custody of police. It’s kept in a Google sheet, and you can track by ethnicity, state, county, agency involved, gender, name, and date range.
http://www.fatalencounters.org
According to the database, there’s been about 10k caucasians killed in police custody, 6,600 african americans, about 4,000 latinos.
Data on deaths in police custody haven’t been formally required until the Death in Custody Act of 2013.
