Rand Corp. Analysis

Will they be happy ever after?

Will your vote in November be hacked?

Shall we do the dance?

How equal are we?

Are you retiring soon?

Why doesn't he have side effects from the pill?

Pills don't work the same for everybody. How can you know this pill will work for you? Well, there may be a way for you to know before you start taking the pill. DNA analysis may be that way. As its name suggests, the Center for DNA Guided Medicine claims to be able to tell you how a particular medicine will work on you. You supply your DNA and they compare it to drug response outcomes which they have gathered over the years. They can then answer such questions as:

Why don't my medications work?

How come the pill I am taking gives me side effects, but my friend does not have any?

Will my medications work better if I take more or less?

What combinations of pills are safest for me?

Is there only one thing to do today?

Will you join the millions who will watch THE HEARING? Of course, I'm talking about the Kavanaugh hearing. It sounds as though this is the most important thing that has happened this year, if not this decade. How many stations will carry it? How much is this costing us? How much time have our leaders spent on this rather than on more important matters, for example our failing infrastructure? Is it analogous to the battles in the Forum when Rome was failing, as we are now? Why can't we smarten up?

Living in Hell

We need AVR

A 7-year-old performs

Two heads are better than one

Repair or Prevent

FEMA operates on the basis of repairing and restoring property damaged by severe storms. Holland tries to prevent or minimize the danger from occurring. Which makes more sense to you?

FEMA winds up repairing dangerous locations - such as seashore homes - more than once. The residents suffer more than once. Federal flood insurance is paid more than once to the same people. It's likely that the costs incurred by FEMA match or exceed those incurred by Holland. Plus, people in the states suffer a lot more than those in Holland.

A recent 60 Minutes tells the story well.

It's getting better but still too many

New Army Recruits

Should we be worried about our debt?

John Feffer, who is not an economist, thinks so. Household debt hit a new high ($13.3 trillion) last month. Student debt hit its own record - $1.5 trillion. Mortgage debt at $9 trillion is close to the $10.5 trillion it reached during the mortgage crisis in 2008. Credit card debt surpassed $1 trillion for the first time. Corporate debt hit a new high of $6.3 trillion. And, companies have less cash available to pay that debt - the cash-to-debt ratio, which was 14 percent in 2008, has dropped to 12 percent.

Cute photos

From the Guardian:

I love you

Stay away from me

Shall we dance

Mortgage delinquency rate and housing prices

From Wolf Street
What will happen when housing prices fall?

Media Bias?

The following chart was posted on Business Insider. It was based on the Feb. 5-March 11, 2018, Gallup/Knight Foundation survey of 1,440 Gallup Panel members. How accurate it is I don't know.



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