Sunday, December 4, 2022

KGRR climate update through Nov 2022

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2022 mean average temperature eleven months through Nov = 50.4 Mean average temperature through Nov since 1892 = 50.0 28 inches of snow, sec...
Friday, December 2, 2022

Meanwhile consumers of the really important things like food and energy are getting pounded with persistent, huge price increases

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So-called "core" inflation rose to 5-ish percent from early 2021 and hasn't budged from there in twelve months

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Puny Fed rate hikes have done nothing to stop it. The metric was less than 2% under Trump.  
Thursday, December 1, 2022

The traditional 60/40 portfolio is now down only 13.76% in 2022 through November, not adjusted for inflation north of 6%

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Total stock market index, VTSAX:  -14.51% through November Total bond market index, VBTLX:  -12.64% through November

The dollar buys 12.5% less after two years of Joe Biden: The damage was already done by June when the Fed first hiked by 0.75

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Jay Powell is a bitter disappointment, pledging today to moderate rate hikes when he's hardly begun to fight inflation after waiting a year to start

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 Jay Powell is such a clown:   ". . . it makes sense to moderate the pace of our rate increases as we approach the level of restraint ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Before the election Biden declared the pandemic over, then he declared it on again afterwards but WaPo just ignores that

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Biden still hasn't "shut down the virus".    
Monday, November 28, 2022

Life insurance payouts soared past $100 billion in 2021 as pandemic took over 800,000 total US lives by year end

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 Payouts rose 11% in 2021 to $100.19 billion, most likely due to the pandemic, according to the American Council of Life Insurers. The incre...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

An unappreciated factor in the relatively poor Republican performance in Election 2022 is the death of many of their voters due to the pandemic

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 Older voters skew Republican, and COVID-19 victims skew overwhelmingly older. A 3- to 4-point Republican advantage among a million deaths o...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

The legacy of Pelosi's US House

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Thus was the building left Ridiculous; and the work confusion nam'd.   -- John Milton

Come and take it, Joe

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Biden: "The Idea That We Still Allow" Semi-Automatic Weapons "Is Sick"
Friday, November 25, 2022

WaPo: We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated

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For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.     Fifty-eight ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Republicans have won 220 seats in the US House and are expected to finish with a 222 majority over the Democrats with 213

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 Frisch conceded to Boebert five days ago.

Non-binary queer man who threatened to blow up his mother's house last year shoots up gay nightclub in Colorado, liberals blame conservatives

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Story .

The Trump witch hunt continues: Garland's new special counsel is linked to Lois Lerner while the wife is linked to anti-semitic Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib

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 Mr.   Smith   set up a meeting in October 2010 with   IRS   official Lois Lerner “to discuss how the   IRS could assist in the criminal enf...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Apparently Al Franken has a new gig selling T-shirts online

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Sunday, November 20, 2022

You can't trust any headline at Drudge, including about the weather

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The investment cheerleaders in the US are arrayed against the Fed's rising interest rate regime and lie when they say interest rates are coming down

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The yield curve recovered 98 basis points in the last week to close at 5488 on Nov 18. Despite all the alarming volatility in US Treasuries,...

Buffalo, New York gets all the headlines, but Grand Rapids, Michigan has already had its second snowiest November ever

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 We've been busy around here with three days in a row of 7+ inches of snow each, and in excess of two feet in five days. Total November ...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

When the government gives it to you good and hard, and you're too dumb to notice

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