During the COVID pandemic, public health officials were obsessed with presenting a united front and a grossly oversimplified message regarding anything pandemic-related. Is masking up a good or bad idea? There was little to no data that it was a good idea, but once the idea was pushed out there, everybody fell in line. That...
I spent a few moments this morning feeling a little burst of renewed optimism that things were going to be okay. That, economically, we were settling down and strong enough to ride this tariff and trade roller coaster out. I mean, the jobs report came in pretty darn encouraging – a bigger gain than expected,...
You can’t take ‘man on the street’ interviews TOO seriously. They serve as a great way to amuse yourself or to feel much smarter than others, but to maintain my integrity, I have to admit that there is always a lot of cherry-picking to get the juiciest bits. On...