It is a good thing to reflect on election, to try and understand what voters wanted, and what they did not want. This is a very difficult task, one I’m glad our own MCS focuses as that’s certainly not my wheel house. Most of us are just arm-chair political scientists when we try to think […]

November is now not just a comin, it’s here. Americans have the chance to reward the Democrats for their performance with continued power, or they have the chance to fire them. We haven’t blogged much this fall about the elections, so this morning I’ll hit a few observations lightly. We can go more in-depth in […]

It’s strange how the world no longer will use the category of sin. Even progressives, with a deeply puritan secular morality, don’t want to use that word. Rather their condemnation of actions is not to call out the truth, e.g., that a fallen person with common humanity to them has done something they feel is […]

We haven’t had an update on the economy in a bit, so this post will share some of the data I’m finding interesting, which I believe is telling us where the market is going. Last week the price of the ten year US Treasury Bond fell, leading to a yield of over 4%, a level […]

I’ve often made the comment that when you see Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders basically saying the same thing on a position, you have to question it. In my case, I’m usually talking about their positions on restricting free trade. You could say that even a stopped clock is right twice per day, so maybe […]

President Biden, Mr. Unity himself, went full force on attacking what he calls MAGA Republicans* tonight, as they represent “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Let’s assume Mr. Biden really believes this, and this is not just more of the over-the-top rhetoric that both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump love to […]

The Federal Reserve has to be pleased with the way their tightening cycle has gone, not that they ever wanted to be here. The Fed has engineered meaningful tightening, markets have had nasty reactions in the downward direction, and yet we haven’t had a true financial panic. Further, job opportunities are still relatively plentiful, and […]

I’ll continue to provide updates on the market and economy from my perspective here at BATG, but the purpose of this post is to point out why the uncertainty of prognostications about the future are much larger than normal times. In short, we have no history to draw on for the Federal Reserve dropping $5T […]

We’ve talked earlier about the student loan forgiveness, which is really the “stick it to the working joe” executive decision. Most of those paying the costs of this program did not receive the benefit of the loans, yet they’ll have to foot the bill. Indeed, the education received by those who took the loans will, […]

Fellow Berean Matt Beal touched on the 2nd Qtr GDP Growth (negative) last week, and I thought I’d add to the discussion. But because I’m particularly lazy (and the ramp up to the new semester is consuming me), I encourage you to listen to a radio interview I had with Columbus Ohio’s WTVN radio late […]