In case you were laboring under the false presumption that economists have more integrity than to change their opinions based on politics, you were wrong.
OPEN LETTER FROM ECONOMISTS OPPOSING THE GAS TAX HOLIDAY
“…321 SIGNERS AND COUNTING
ANY ECONOMIST INTERESTED IN ADDING THEIR NAME TO THIS STATEMENT PLEASE EMAIL gastax08@gmail.com WITH NAME AND AFFILIATION…”
Of course, this was May 2008. Bush was president.
Social media is garbage…
A new Jewish “delicacy”
You asked, we listened.🌭The R&D team hasn't slept all week and now the factory will be cranking out these babies 24/6. Just in time for July 4th!
An American tradition your Bubbie will love.#GefilteDogs #GefilteBeef pic.twitter.com/Wtg1mZCAYL— Manischewitz (@ManischewitzCo) June 22, 2022
People ask. Lots of people ask.
— Manischewitz (@ManischewitzCo) June 23, 2022
Rasmussen: issues of concern for Voters vs. Legacy Media
ICYMI: Top Voter Midterm Issues vs Top Legacy Media Issues
Gasoline blows up. Was # 5. Look at it today.
Be kind, retweet and blow legacy media minds … pic.twitter.com/ihduCXImNK
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) June 21, 2022
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The media bubble is real: Study shows massive disconnect between journalists, public
More on the housing bubble burst.
JPMorgan Chase Cuts Thousands of Positions in Mortgage Lending Sector.
“…Housing sales are dropping fast, but housing values are, on a regional basis, holding steady – for now. However, the banks and lending institutions are preparing for those values, and the contained equity, to drop and disappear precipitously.
Today Bloomberg is reporting that JPMorgan Chase is shifting around 1,000 employees in the mortgage side of finance with some being laid-off and others being reassigned to different parts of the bank and financial services. This should not come as a surprise, but it does align with other less noticeable moves in the banking and home loan sector…”
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell Admits It Is Not Russia That Created U.S. Inflation, It Is Joe Biden Policy
Democrat policies at the local, state, and federal level have made living in the Bay Area of California impossible for most Americans.
Bay Area Housing: Mortgage on Typical Home Now $9,100 in San Jose, $8,100 in SF
Monthly payments at the current average rate of 5.78% soar 51% in the U.S. from the same time last year
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Demand for adjustable-rate mortgages surges, as interest rates make biggest jump in 13 years
Has it occurred to jerkoff Biden that there is good reason other countries don’t do this?
Biden Brags ‘We’re the Only Country in the World’ Giving COVID Vaccines to Children
If you allow your young children to be vaccinated, it’s on you. There’s a lot of data that suggests it is completely unnecessary and may be counter productive.
Just what Chicago needs to solve its crime problem, more protection for criminals. Democrats, this is who they are.
Chicago cops barred from chasing people on foot who run away
If I remember correctly the last Republican mayor left office in 1931. Chicago is a Democrat war zone.
The path to failure of our Washington “elite.” Demonstrated failure does not deter them.
How Germany went “green” in 4 easy steps
1. Shut down clean nuclear
2. Move to unreliable wind/solar
2. Become reliant on Russian natural gas
3. Fire up dirty coal again pic.twitter.com/Jf8XsSK4rg— Joseph Brown (@heresyfinancial) June 21, 2022
Heh!
We need new investment in water and electrical grid infrastructure…
Engineered California
“…Nothing so illustrates the mindset of green politics, particularly in California, as the word “natural,” which is taken to mean unspoiled, pure, and better than the workings of man. Yet few places are as fundamentally artificial, if measured by its dependency on human intervention, as California.
So why do California’s progressives, and so many others, yearn for what the historian Leo Marx dubbed the “pastoral ideal”? Much has to do with the state’s rapid population growth from 1.5 million in 1900 to nearly 40 million today, which resulted in a regime of environmental rapine that many still living experienced.
California would not exist in anything like its modern form without massive engineering. Largely dominated by desert, flammable, dry chaparral and high mountains, California depends on human-created technology to bring water to its bone-dry coast. It taps distant dams for the bulk of its electricity and food and would have never grown its population without this manufactured transformation of its natural environment. “Science,” as the University of California’s second president, Daniel Coit Gilman, put it, “is the mother of California.”…
…Equally missing is a clear appreciation of the economic effects of the state’s green policies. Historically, California’s public works—the freeways, aqueduct, power stations—were designed to grow the opportunity horizon for the majority by boosting the economy, creating opportunities for new production, and forging new communities. The current policy agenda, in contrast, has proven catastrophic for many middle and working class families.
Attorney Jennifer Hernandez has demonstrated in a recent report for the Breakthrough Institute what she calls “the green Jim Crow.“ Pushed by overwhelmingly white billionaires, these policies have escalated housing and energy prices, driving jobs and people out of the state. This has hurt minorities in particular, she claims, “deepening the state’s shameful legacy of racial injustice.”…”
The Covid driven housing bubble is popped. Air is leaking rapidly.
Firing pilots over forced vaxx mandates was a mistake. Cowardly corporations pay the price of woke. Americans have less flying options.
Politicized medicine and science is a huge mistake…
The Democrat cult of “The Killing of the Unborn” continues to get weirder and weirder
Hopeless Hochul and Westchester County Attack Pregnancy Centers.
“…Joining her in her ham-fisted attempt to ensure that New York State remains at the bottom of desirable places to live in the U.S. is a Democrat-controlled state legislature. It is so obsessed with abortion, so blind to the reality of violence against pro-life pregnancy centers, that in the wake of a firebombing of one of these centers, CompassCare Community medical in Amherst, N.Y., they — wait for it — increased funding to protect abortion clinics…”
Abortion cultists are attacking medical facilities that specialize in birth. These people are soul-sick.
Biden at 32%
Democrat. This is who they are. If you vote for Democrats, it’s on you.
Biden’s Equity Chief At State: White Diplomats Too Fond Of America
“…Desirée Cormier Smith made the comments in an October 2020 interview with the Black Diplomats podcast while she was still served as senior policy adviser for liberal mega-donor George Soros’ Open Society Foundations…”
The Bureau of Reclamation, not global warming, changed the rules for managing river flows
Declining water levels caused by government, not climate
“…The Colorado River Research Group, a team of scholars at Utah State University, studies this River system, from perspectives in social, physical, and biological sciences, along with water law and public policy. In 2018, they highlighted the role of policy decisions in draining Lake Powell, in a paper aptly titled, “It’s Hard to Fill a Bathtub When the Drain is Wide Open.” That is precisely what has happened at Lake Powell, yet the report has been largely ignored. It should be required reading for everyone concerned about the Colorado River.
Lake Powell was created for the primary purpose of administering the Interstate Compact – ensuring the Upper Basin states can deliver the water they are required to send downstream, even in dry years. It was completed in 1966 and finally filled to its 27 million acre-foot capacity by 1980. But since 2000, the water level has dropped 94 feet, even though the Upper Basin states have consistently used only 60 percent of their entitlements. The lake holds barely 10 million acre-feet today.
In reservoirs designed for multi‐year carryover storage, “declines are expected in dry years, and recovery is expected in wet years.” But at Lake Powell, “When large inflows do occur, current operational rules immediately trigger large releases.” In the extremely wet year of 2011, for example, inflow at Lake Powell was five million acre-feet above average. But the Bureau immediately opened the gates and sent it all downstream to Lake Mead, benefitting California, Las Vegas, and fish. No wonder Lake Powell cannot recover during wet years.
The report acknowledges that several dry years contributed to the water level drop, “but ultimately it is the operational rules that are slowly but surely draining Lake Powell.”…”
Related:
California Needs Engineering, Not Green Craziness
I would add investment in infrastructure.