The Debt Ceiling: An Affectionate History

Source: Mises Institute.

The article depicts the U.S. federal debt ceiling in three different graphs of the time period 1943 through 2020:

  • as nominal dollars
  • as constant (or, inflation-adjusted) dollars
  • as a percentage of GDP

All show the same pattern of steady increase of the debt ceiling beginning circa 1980.

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A Declassified State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn’t Cause “Havana Syndrome”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/havana-syndrome-jason-crickets

While we’re on the topic of possibly lavish and unnecessary spending, the house just unanimously passed a bill providing even more generous healthcare to spies with a “disease” the State Department knows is fake. Are the fiscal conservatives here aghast at this?

Binge-watching TV Series

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes. Thanks to Internet video streaming you can create a facsimile of that experience by watching whole TV series in a few day’s time that you once watched over a period of years. It won’t exactly be your life that flashes before your eyes, but it was your life that the show’s original broadcast punctuated.

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AZ audit report shows what we all knew

https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-governor-hits-back-donald-trump-over-audit-no-decertification-1632678

“It is not even believable the dishonesty of the Fake News Media on the Arizona Audit results, which shows incomprehensible Fraud at an Election Changing level, many times more votes than is needed,” Trump said.

What does the media have to do with the official ”audit” report? 6 months and millions of partisan dollars to pore over 2.1 million ballots in secret locations in Montana and the GOP is calling for another audit? Reminds me of a loser insisting on ”best 2 out of 3”, then losing again, ”best 3 out of 5”…

But, not to be outdone, Trump demands an audit in Texas which is apparently taking place. The GOP, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump, Inc.

America will be destroyed from within, and we are witnessing the beginnings by Republicans.

IMHANEO😎

Whoopsie: NIH Finds Ivermectin Works

_Ivermectin used early works, who’d a thunk

“Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.”

Not a miracle cure, not a magic bullet, but significantly better than no treatment, cheap, and very low in risk.

So, how much blood on the hands of the FDA this time?