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Let’s revisit some prices of some commodities for hints of ongoing or surging inflation. For this go round, I looked at eggs and milk and added coffee based upon some videos. Is inflation surging from the tariffs? Note: Images are blurry maybe due to enlarging the images twice, once in a photo editor and once…
We have now reached mid-August, and the Atlantic has now woken up with the first hurricane in sight. Yes, it is now a Cat 1 hurricane. Sigh…now I have to worry about being hit by a hurricane from now to maybe the end of November. It is especially worrisome on two levels: With so much…
Last week, Palantir made history with its first billion dollar Q2 revenues. Here are links to two of the articles: My understanding is that Palantir was able to breach the 1 billion dollar mark due to winning large government deals to provide some kind of technology, maybe a kind of surveillance technology for immigrants or…
Oh ho! Google did not want to talk about the topic of AI taking over jobs! The past few weeks my feed have been showing articles discussing companies either no longer hiring people and letting AI take over the work or companies actually letting go of people as AI take over. The most distressing story…
Here is an unusual topic for tonight’s post: minimum wage versus productivity. I saw a short on YouTube that posits that minimum wage would be $25.52 if our wages had not become disconnected from productivity. I don’t know if you are aware that the latest economists thinking is that wages no longer track with productivity…
I missed posting last week – maybe the first time ever! (Began in 2013 or 2014). Instead, I have been caught in the news drama that is kind of stunning. I got kind of caught up in the sordid drama of the Epstein files. I have been shocked that this story has kept going and…