Next time, I’ll be a better daughter instead of an economic data junky — “Inflation’s through the roof. Gas prices are sky-high. They’re talking about stagflation,” my daddy said. The words tumbled out in a single breath as if building to a horrific prophecy of economic doom. Instead, the conversation shifted to the price of canned pinto beans costing more than $0.50. Five minutes…

It’s complicated, but they chased a 1 million voter headline, not the facts — According to the Associated Press (AP), voter-registration data from 43 states shows that over 1 million Democrats changed their party registration to Republican. That’s interesting and crazy and just plain bad reporting. Only 31 states and the District of Columbia register voters by party. Nineteen states don’t. Do the math.

If you want to know what’s wrong with America, take a hard look at Andersonville National Historic Site. — The First National Flag of the Confederacy flapped in the breeze at Andersonville National Historic Site. It was Memorial Day 2022 — twelve years after National Park Service Director’s Order 61, which bans Confederate flags from “being flown on any cemetery flagpole.” The same order restricts Confederate flags to Confederate…

I now know what it feels like to pee on Everest — Bidet manufacturers and Amazon reviewers are sadistic liars with ultrasonic hearing. This superpower lets them pick up the horrified screams of newbies from over five hundred miles away. Stubborn ones like myself are the entertainment that keeps giving. My bidet feels like a firehose hooked up to a melting glacier…

Is TMTG just another bad SPAC investment, or are we watching securities fraud in real-time — Donald Trump just bought his lawyer a new yacht. This realization slapped me upside the head like a sledgehammer 30 seconds after opening Trump Media and Technology Group Corporation’s (TMTG) pitch deck. …

The upper class owes 90.8% of unpaid income taxes, but monitoring bank accounts actually targets working-class America. — Nancy Pelosi’s tripping if she honestly thinks monitoring bank accounts with $600 in annual cash flow will solve our revenue problem. I get it. The US has a tax gap, which means that some people are not paying what they owe. Folks want to know where she’ll get the money…

How did we get so divided? Sometimes, we move forward by looking back. Andrew Tanner’s recent piece discusses the extreme influence propaganda has on US politics. While I don’t personally…

Here’s a real-world screw up from the recent jobs report coverage and how to fix it — One phrase from CNBC’s September’s jobs creation comes up short with gain of just 194,000 immediately downgraded it from an informative news article to clickbait junk. Nonfarm payrolls rose by just 190,000 in the month, compared with the Dow Jones estimate of 500,000, the Labor Department reported Friday. (Cox, 2021)

Hint, whose prediction matters — When the September jobs report dropped last week, headlines loudly proclaimed that the 194,000 new nonfarm jobs fell short of the predicted 500,000 — a 306,000 deficit. This narrative has a hole large enough to fly a 737 Max through. That 500,000 jobs prediction did not originate with the US…