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Also on this general subject:
Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It’s the 1970s-
U.S. manufacturing is experiencing a rebound, with companies adding workers amid high consumer demand for products.
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And, with respect to energy, I just came across this:
Leading economies sliding into recession as Ukraine war cuts growth –
Impact of energy and inflation crises worse than forecast, with Europe most directly exposed to fallout of Russian invasio…
"foreign stock investors will be rewarded in the future"
Depends a lot on a factor not previously present: energy sources. Even after Russia/Ukraine situation reaches end game, energy will never resume it's previous supply configuration. No one wil…
Evidently it's an electro-mechanical friction problem in the apparatus which is used to switch one of the main cameras between various operating modes. That sort of thing doesn't sound like it would be easily "fixable" by software manipulation. I've…
@Crash- Your comment suggesting that the Post Office is early in re-instituting holiday rates isn't warranted. Because of DeJoy's slowdown of deliveries, people need to start right about now if they want their Christmas packages to arrive in time.
"to be a dipper at these prices or get a few bucks interest"
@Derf- seems to me that once an avalanche starts rolling it's best to stay out of the way until it reaches the bottom.
@AndyJ- I just noticed this closing section on a Washington Post article- it kind of speaks to your earlier question-
As with Trump’s claims on declassification, Trump’s lawyers are forced to choose between bad options. They can try to echo their cl…
I'm wondering if the employment/unemployment picture is becoming fragmented. There are many reports of large layoffs in businesses and financial operations which are large-scale operations. But, as Crash mentions, not so much in smaller local busine…
Update to previous article in The Guardian:
A US judge reviewing records seized from Donald Trump’s Florida home asked the former president’s lawyers on Thursday to provide any evidence casting doubt on the integrity of the documents. Trump has prev…
@AndyJ- What a good question. While I doubt that Trump himself has any real idea of the judicial backgrounds of most prominent jurists, surely at least some of his attorneys should.
It was very interesting to my wife and me that Trump's "preferred"…
Special master demands proof of tampering from Trump's lawyers in Mar-a-Lago case
This short article from The Guardian:
The special master appointed to filter out privileged materials from the documents taken by the government from Mar-a-Lago has a…
@Crash- Yesterday I noted for you that-
... more interestingly, he [Judge Dearie] directed Trump to specify exactly which documents he has allegedly declassified. He's not buying the proposition that Trump just waved his hands over a bunch of cardbo…
Another setback for Trump-
“For our part, we cannot discern why [Trump] would have an individual interest in or need for any of the one-hundred documents with classification markings,”
The following excerpts from The Washington Post article have b…
"So I think customer service quality at Vanguard may depend on who you happen to get."
That's pretty well true with most anyplace in the world, I've found.
I ran into a brick wall trying to set up a Treasury Direct account. They evidently use some outside service provider to do a quick and dirty check on the information that you provide, and if there's any "flags" Treasury basically says that they don'…
I've got a pretty decent ladder going on CDs, both direct and brokered. Keeping maturities down to about 6 mths, as it sure looks like the rates are going to keep going up for a while.
More on this, just in from NPR-
WASHINGTON — The independent arbiter tasked with inspecting documents seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home said Tuesday he intends to push briskly though the review process and appea…
@Crash- Well, of course he would report to her. But perhaps you haven't realized that Judge Dearie has already started to make life difficult for Trump: first, he's set a no-nonsense timetable which defeats Trump's efforts to delay and procrastinate…
