The good news is that the economy is not in a recession – it is just growing at a rate so slow as to be almost invisible. A recession is an economic downturn marked by two consecutive quarters of negative (GDP) growth. For the last two quarters, the growth rate has been only 0.6 percent [...]
Amazingly, with both crude oil and refined product prices at record highs, oil companies are turning record profits. Here’s a nice little fact tucked away in the story: Shell’s Chief Financial Officer Peter Voser said oil companies are not to blame. “We don’t understand the oil price at this stage,” he said. “The fundamentals will [...]
I got a little suspicious when I heard about this trucker’s strike in DC. What did it for me was the group’s demands: The truckers are calling on Congress to stop subsidizing big oil companies, release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves, end exports of oil from Alaska and regulate transportation brokers and fees paid [...]
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A friend over at Blue Jersey drew my attention to the saga of the littoral combat ship (LCS). It’s pretty short and asking for oversight from a South Jersey Republican who is very proud of sitting on the appropriate committee. But the full story from the New York Times gives a lot more detail. The [...]
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The delegate counters have been updated to reflect the post-Pennsylvania delegate totals. Every day the picture gets a little bit clearer. Some day it will stop looking like mud. At this point, there eight primaries and a caucus left. Guam holds its caucus on May 3 and awards four delegates – so don’t expect anyone [...]
American women are making history, but not in a positive way. Life expectancy is falling: The trend appears to be driven by increases in death from diabetes, lung cancer, emphysema and kidney failure. It reflects the long-term consequences of smoking, a habit that women took up in large numbers decades after men did, and the [...]
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When I first began blogging, I tended to cover a lot of developments in New Jersey’s political scene. Since I joined Blue Jersey several years ago, I’ve largely let that be the venue where I speak on that topic (and at NJ Voices, since that feature’s inception). (Anything I write at either site, by the [...]
