In an effort to dump a lot of stuff I shouldn’t have kept, I’m spending hours going through old boxes and cabinets. As always, this process gets bogged down very quickly as I find some long-forgotten things and take time to look them over. Was it really thirty years ago I drew this cartoon for an office event?
Johnny Carson, from when the Tonight Show was still in New York, talking about the forthcoming arrival to the city of the Fabulous Foursome.
Trump keeps saying the country is a mess, but it appears the Fed has pulled off a rare soft landing in the economy. Inflation has been brought under control with low unemployment, while avoiding a recession along the way.
Where the country is a mess is with the extreme weather. Trump of course refuses to acknowledge that it’s related to climate change.
David Wessel compares and contrasts the economic proposals of the two presidential candidates.
My cancer treatments ended four weeks ago. Recovery from the side effects of chemo and radiation has been slow, but steady. I won’t know if I’m cured until an examination in December. After that, I’ll be preparing for an ablation procedure in the hope of treating my persistent atrial fibrillation. It will be done at Mass General in Boston, by the director of the A-Fib program at Harvard Medical School. If he can’t get me out of a-fib, then nobody can. The odds he gave me that he’ll be able to do that? 60-70%.
