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November 23, 2021

Morgan Stanley Boss: You're nuts if you're not back in the office!

I know it's a link to the Post but I think it's an interesting topic. Will a young person's career suffer from not being physically around mentors?

https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/morgan-stanley-boss-to-young-bankers-youre-nuts-if-youre-not-in-the-office/

November 23, 2021

Up On the Roof - The Drifters

November 22, 2021

How will the Covid pills change the pandemic?

Well, I see that what one of them might do is going to make wing nut heads spin. Enjoy:

https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/how-will-the-covid-pills-change-the-pandemic

Some of the mavens are thinking endemic sometime in the first quarter of 2022. Even Dr. Faucci thinks it's possible.

November 22, 2021

US Supreme Court opinions due to be released at 10AM est

The mavens say November opinions are quite rare. Could be the Texas Abortion cases.
Check SCOTUSBLOG for the true gen. They will be live blogging.

November 22, 2021

Anything Goes - The Movie

So I guess they filmed the London production and turned it into a movie?
Sutton Foster is the cat's meow!

https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/watch-two-anything-goes-cinema-clips_55375.html

November 22, 2021

The Democratic Coalition

Pew Research did a survey this summer to identify who Democrats are (They also did one for Republicans). It makes for some interesting reading:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/the-democratic-coalition/

Democratic Mainstay here. I took the quiz.

November 22, 2021

A 4 trillion BBB bill?

Steve Rattner is a Democrat and currently makes a modest living investing Michael Bloomberg's money for him. He had a column in the NYT the other day whose theme is that Joe Biden's three big bills are causing inflation. I didn't think much of the column so I won't link to it.
However the column did site to a study by some committee for responsible government that criticizes the House passed BBB for the use of budget gimmicks. The idea is that the bill projects revenue over ten years but spending costs over a much shorter period. I site this not for the reason that responsible government types do to oppose deficit spending. I don't have a problem with deficit spending in this instance.
I put up the link to show that they believe the spending involved (provided the spending provisions get renewed over the next decade) is in excess of 4 trillion dollars. So the proposed bill comes a lot closer to what Progressives had originally hoped for than people realize.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/build-back-better-cost-would-double-extensions

Well, maybe I've got it wrong. It's late at night, I can't sleep so I start having these strange thoughts.

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Name: Tom Conroy
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