Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The Banality of Evil--Soviet Style

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 Just finished David Remnick's" Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Union ."   It concludes with the trial of the su...
Monday, September 21, 2020

SBA Small Business Subcontracting

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 SBA's Inspector General did a report , including this: The audit also found a glitch in reporting large businesses working for small bu...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

SCOTUS and the Albright Rule

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In a NSC discussion over whether and how to intervene in the Balkans during the Clinton administration Madeliene Albright said something lik...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

RBG RIP

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 My wife and I were fans of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at least in the sense we saw the documentary and then the biipic made of her life.  She pre...
Friday, September 18, 2020

CFAP II Coming, and Here

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 From Progressive Farmer, a report from Trump's rally saying that CFAP II will be announced next week at $13 billion. Just went to Faceb...

Divisions Among Black Farmer Organizations

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 I have a Google Alert set up for "black farmers", dating back to the Pigford days. Today it showed two hits: " National Blac...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Crop Insurance Fraud

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 Farm Journal's Agweb runs a piece on a big, perhaps the biggest, crop  insurance fraud. It goes back over a decade, and I didn't ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

1970's Oil Shock

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Noah Smith has a piece in Bloomber g, describing the 1970's rise in oil prices and attributing several structural changes in the economy...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Evaluation of MFP

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 NYTimes has a piece tied to GAO's assessment of MFP in a report Monday.   The criticisms seem to focus on higher payments for Southern ...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Will I Accept a Trump Victory?

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 There's some worrying that liberals would not accept another Trump victory.  I can only speak for myself, a diehard Democrat. If a ...