The coming snow storm has been upgraded to a full-blown, wind-driven blizzard, with 22″ accumulation possible. That’s what Snowzilla Sr. dumped on us.
This weather map shows up to two feet of snow. The temperature is currently just above freezing, increasing the likelihood of heavy, wet snow.
The Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s capricious tariffs, so he announces a 10% across-the-board tariff. No, wait. Make that 15%. What will it be tomorrow?
The King of Chaos, who declared business bankruptcy six times, is seething over being “debanked” after January 6, 2021. He should take his case to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Oh, right. He destroyed the CFPB.
The winter of 2015 had a late start, but once it got going it was the worst ever. This year’s winter isn’t that bad yet, but since with the 22″ storm we had, it’s been heading in that direction.
Right now there are several inches of super heavy, wet snow to be cleared. The kind of snow that would have had much more accumulation if it hadn’t been so wet. Snow the snowblower can’t handle, so shovels it will be.
Tomorrow’s forecast places me in the 10″-16″ zone. I hope it isn’t the heavy, wet stuff.
Today’s small victory. The heavy, wet snow turned out to be very amenable to the snowblower’s tender mercies.
Paul Krugman has started a YouTube channel. He seems uncertain about keeping it going, but what he says here about the Trump administration’s response to a report from the New York Federal Reserve is worthy of a debut video.
Based on LG’s pre-tariff sale price for my new washer and dryer, I estimate I paid at least $50 more per unit than I would have a year ago. Something else that’s happening at the Fed is, in contrast, undoubtedly welcomed by Trump’s people. The easing of mortgage regulations.
The decline in banks issuing mortgages was a reason why I moved most of my retirement money out of the bank where it had been. As a savings bank, it was dropped by the Depositor’s Insurance Fund, which guarantees accounts above the FDIC limit of $250,000. The bank wasn’t in any sort of legal trouble, it had simply grown too big to remain within the DIF’s “too small to fail” limit.
Home mortgages and small business loans are the life blood of that bank. I became concerned that the economic changes resulting from the Financial Crisis of 2008 — conditions that should have favored small community banks — and later the Covid pandemic, could reverse that bank’s growth. If it were ever to run into financial trouble, my retirement money would be at risk. So, being cautious (my definition of conservative) with my money, I moved more of it to another Massachusetts chartered savings bank that is still a DIF member.
Once again I doff the Dog Rat tupe to Denro for finding something that’s blog worthy. It also has a personal connection for both of us. We took courses at Westfield State that were taught by Phil Shepardson.
I knew Phil well. It was thanks to him that I started working in radio. Phil hosted a TV quiz show, called As Schools Match Wits. I have to laugh, hearing and seeing Shepardson in these video clips. Yep, there he is, just as I remember him.
With Friday the 13th behind us, here’s to Valentine’s Day.
Have some red velvet cupcakes.
