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Author: DOuG pRATt
Dueling Mandates
Seventies Stagflation proved that inflation can’t be allowed to run wild. If it happens, the job market will have to take a hit, even to the point of driving the economy into a recession, as was done by Paul Volcker.
How weak is the job market today, relative to the coming inflation that is not quite here yet, as a result of Trump’s tariffs?
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/08/25/fed-shifts-focus-to-weak-job-market
Speaking selfishly, being completely debt-free, and with my IRA CDs earning good returns, I wish the Fed wouldn’t lower interest rates.
Still Real Intelligence
Only remastered, not remixed with AI behind it. Which explains why John’s voice sounds the same as it does in the original. The photo appears to not be real, but an assemblage of separate images.
Run Me Do
I am very pleased to say that I was wrong. I take back what I said 18 months ago. My running days are not over!
For two months, I had physical therapy for my ankle, and I was making good progress. Just when I was about to move up to practicing on a treadmill in preparation of returning to light running, I was slammed with the combination cancer/AFib diagnoses.
The last time I went for a 3+ mile run, it took the time shown on the left. Now I am cancer-free and an ablation has taken me out the AFib. Having not gone running since February, 2024, today’s time for the same route is on the right.
My persistent AFib was asymptomatic, and although I never felt short of breath, I was struggling to get my time back under 10 minutes/mile. Today, I did it without even trying. The AFib must have been holding me back after all.
Won’t Get Who’d Again
Last December, despite wearing earplugs, I came away from the Micky Dolenz show at Boston’s City Winery with a fairly persistent whistling sound in my left ear.
Could my sensitivity have been related to last year’s cancer treatments? Perhaps. What about the fact I’ve had sinus trouble in the past that temporarily affected my ears? I suppose that could be a factor.
But I’m not going to take any chances.
To preserve my hearing as much as possible, I will no longer attend live concerts. The loudest of them ever was fifty years ago, seeing the Who with Denro, in December, 1975. I saw the two Who who are left, Pete and Roger, at Fenway Park in 2019. So, I was able to resist the urge to see them there again last night.
https://www.boston.com/culture/concert-reviews/2025/08/27/the-who-fenway-park/
From Yesterday to Tomorrow
There were only about ten months between Paul recording his sweet and safe ‘Yesterday’…
… and John recording his strange and unsettling ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’.
That cartoon offers at least a suggestion of what came later from the same producer, Al Brodax, with the fabtabulous animated feature Yellow Submarine.