Showing posts with label COVID-19 2026. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COVID-19 2026. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2026

Big 3 salaried labor cuts of 19% return levels to pre-pandemic era

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 Detroit automakers have cut more than 20,000 U.S. salaried jobs as AI threat looms    
Thursday, May 7, 2026

Trump II Virus Deja Vu: Does MV Hondius rhyme with Diamond Princess?

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Rat virus panic hits Texas and Virginia as it's revealed passengers aboard hantavirus cruise returned to those states before outbreak ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Inflation, whether pandemic induced or war induced, has been berry berry good for hiding price increases to boost corporate profits

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  Corporate America Aims to Preserve Profit Streak During War in Iran:  Higher inflation is leading companies to raise prices without sacrif...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The CDC has truncated its COVID-19 wastewater chart to begin in spring 2024 instead of allowing you to compare the current era with the pandemic era

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  screenshot mar 2, 2026
Friday, April 10, 2026

Relentless inflation is so boring: Core cpi inflation in Mar 2026 clocked in at 2.6% yoy, 1Q2026 at 2.5% was last this high in 2008 outside the COVID-19 eruption

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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Kevin Asshat says even one tanker is big

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Hormuz strait oil traffic way down after ceasefire; Hassett says even one tanker is big "... being mindful of the fact that if you get ...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Fed chair Jerome Powell didn't say the oil shock will be transitory, but he might as well have

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   ... Powell said raising rates now could have negative effects on the economy later. He noted that Fed rate moves have a lagged impact o...
Monday, March 2, 2026

COVID-19 infection peaks in the U.S. overall have been trending steadily less severe since Jan 2024, with the last two only in the high, not the very high, range

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The regional data taken individually is more erratic.  
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

The New York Times on the global economy had me and then it lost me

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Because it, like too many commentators, uses an obsolete dollar index in DXY, which measures dollar strength or weakness relative to just SI...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Trump's mortgage bond proposal imitates his own "stupid" Jerome Powell on the financing side to reduce interest rates, which is what helped make homes 50% more unaffordable in the first place

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  The perfect storm of government MBS purchases and sub-3% mortgages through ZIRP in 2021 combined to rocket housing values by 50%. Housing ...
Friday, January 9, 2026

More people than ever are NOT in the labor force under Donald Trump in Dec 2025, 104.094 million, worse than COVID!, and 37.57% on average in 2025 were eating but not working

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The Rush Limbaugh-Donald Trump Dumb Ass Unemployment Rate Dec 2025 spiked to 37.87%