So, the author of this article can remain confident that cancer patients will still have access to treatments under a Republican regime? Without covering that issue alone, this article shows the meaning of lies, damn, lies and statistics. But the author is right that some low income people have had trouble affording the insurance through Trumpcare. I think that for those people, mainly young families, the repeal of the mandate likely brought financial relief. This of course shows that in many ways, the Democrats are out of touch.

So much for recovery, unless the people who have totally given up on work will all decide to work after years of losing skills to do much of anything. Trump's growth plan is highly exaggerated, prof.

Growth is going to raise interest rates. Some say raising rates will spur growth. But banks have bet on low rates. Destroying the new normal could make trillions of dollars of interest rate swaps radioactive. You know there was danger in crossing the streams in Ghostbusters. But variable rates banks bet on cannot cross the fixed higher rate stream or the too big to fail banks will melt down. Crossing the new normal has ominous danger to world finance unless banks are seriously hedging against this danger. I don't know if they are doing much of that.

Commodities ballooned in 2007 and that resulted in a crash soon after. High priced energy drives wages up. Low priced energy drives wages down. If that is the essence of this interesting article the Fed is happier with the low wage scenario.

I think there is a big push for a United States of Europe. Germany may not be hot for it, but would go that way rather than see the Eurozone unravel. With Germany, it is always me first.

Yellen doesn't believe she has failed, Power Hedge. If you read Dr Williamson's blog, 1.5 percent inflation is no big deal, no big failure. He is no longer St Louis Fed VP but his ideas carry weight still. Yellen has now told us on her way out that the long bond yields have nothing to do with the health of the economy. I am sure she says this because she wants wages kept in check. The Fed is perfectly happy, with the exception of Kashkari, to believe NeoFisherian doctrine while not really wanting a NeoFisherian reconstruction. In other words, higher interest rates on the long bonds simply cannot be permitted, or the banks holding a boatload of interest rate derivatives will become unstable: www.talkmarkets.com/.../trump-tax-cuts-and-yellens-new-normal

Ha, the inability to renovate was a feature for you, but not for your wife. Funny article.

People have to continue to be blown away by Jeffrey's understanding of world markets and their impacts on the USA.

Helicopter money is the only way to grow the economy as labor gets weaker continually.

Too much military spending and wars far from our borders.