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26 November 2025

Thanksgiving 404

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404 years ago in Plymouth, the early Pilgrims and Native Americans shared a meal after an appallingly hard year. About half the settlers had...
25 November 2025

If I Were King

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If I were king ... I would make being king illegal. Any day now. Very soon. Just after I do this one thing. And sit on this throne for a bit...

Tariffs Seem to Be Driving Layoffs

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Nov 25, 2024, ADP "For the four weeks ending November 8, 2025, U.S. private employers shed an average of 13,500 jobs per week, accordin...

How California did - and perhaps the US will - Turned Blue

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  Two U.S. presidents have come from California: Richard Nixon (born here) and Ronald Reagan (governor here). Both Republicans. So how did C...
22 November 2025

A Quarter of a Century to Recover - the 1929 Great Crash

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The Dow reached a closing high of 381.17 on September 3 1929. It wasn’t until November 23 1954 that the Dow finally closed above that 1929 l...

Indecisive

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"Would you say that you are decisive?" "I'm not sure." "Well think about what you were doing when I approached ...
21 November 2025

Trump's Department of Labor Fabricates 2 Million New Jobs - confusing a periodic correction with the real world

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Correction: Why This Claim Is Misleading The figures in this post from the Department of Labor are based on a technical statistical adjustme...

Weakly Job Creation Rate This Summer

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This summer the economy is creating about as many jobs per month as it did last summer per week. May through September: Average for 2024: 13...
20 November 2025

Crypto Wealth Dissolved

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As of 20 November 2025 ... The price of bitcoin has dropped about $24k this month, representing about half a trillion dollars. The much smal...

Job Creation Slows for 2025

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We now have job and unemployment numbers through September. Unemployment is steadily ticking up, now the highest it has been in nearly 4 ye...
19 November 2025

Miss Information

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Tomorrow we finally get job numbers for .... September. If this administration could generate data at even 1% the rate at which it generates...

BIG returns from TINY changes COMPOUNDING over time

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A reminder of how little it takes when you are compounding returns ... If the market went up about: 0.02% every day → you get 5% annually 0....
18 November 2025

What Global Consciousness Has Done to Local Politics

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I’m curious about your perspective on something. Over the last few decades, Americans have lived through a massive widening of horizons — th...
16 November 2025

The Lack of Civility in the Trump Administration

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For centuries in the West, a “community” meant the people who shared communion — literally. You lived near the same church, worshipped the s...
14 November 2025

Trump's Presidency as Evidence of Poor Quality Civics Classes

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I would love to see stats on what portion of Trump supporters were either home schooled or had gym teachers teach their civics class.  Ther...
12 November 2025

How to be Miserable

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Two surefire ways to be miserable: Live your life like you’re running for office—poll-tested, platform-safe, and passion-free without regard...

Prayer, Politicians, and Lies

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The Western tradition of believing in a God who answers prayers has shaped an odd expectation in our politics: that we can elect leaders who...
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