You have probably forgotten – I don’t blame you – that part of the truce signed at the end of the Great Government Close Down War was that a committee of grand folk would assemble to attempt the impossible. They were tasked with negotiating a budget settlement. The US hasn’t had a budget for years. […]

One of the fun aspects of our continued dire circumstance is that all the lunatic name calling in politics and the associated brouhaha is being matched, step for step, by a similarly chaotic upheaval in economics. The latter is probably a less public bun fight, but it’s just as entertaining. The once vaunted halls of […]