Another day, another good economic report, what with continued growth and —miracle of miracles — consumers actually starting to feel good about the good economy. Joe Biden had some more infrastructure news, too. We’ll also sandwich a dumb Megan McArdle column in here, because overdraft fees are “economy” and she is very wrong about Joe Biden’s plan to limit them.
Our morning Tabs had a true tale of gas in the air, but not the kind that the EPA regulates.
We had a bunch of electoral politics, featuring a (non-farty) blast from the past, a farewell to Congress, and shenanigans in the Arizona GOP.
Come to think of it, maybe the Arizona GOP shenanigans should go in this next grouping, which includes crimey Trump hangers on, the bottomless stupidity of the House GOP, and an absolute horror of a capital punishment story in Alabama, Jesus:
After that, you probably could use some environmental Nice Time, so we’ll close with a quick update on the US Postal Service doing greener mail with its first electric trucks and charging stations coming online this week:
We’ll be back tomorrow with Tabs!
The economy needs more stimulation. I have a radical theory to facilitate this but need more time to think about consequences of the necessary actions to execute it. Wrote an article for practice from my perspective as a citizen of Columbia Mo. Constructive criticism welcomed. I have a lot of thoughts I feel I should share. https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/6eff5fe9-164d-4a72-9f05-93b57d1a49f2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3bdqym
The article links between paragraphs is a terrible format.