Dr. Keynes Was Right: The Greatest Threat

Lisa Murkowski, Swamp Critter

The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-- Lord Acton/1887

Officials who use their public positions for private gain threaten the integrity of our most important institutions. Greed makes governments — at every level — less responsive, less efficient and less trustworthy from the perspective of the communities they serve.
-- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson/2024 [the MAGAnauts get even more aggressive when their perfidy is exposed]

I think we are on the verge of losing vaccines for this country, from this country. And the reason is that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hold up a paper, in the next four or five months, that says it's aluminum in vaccines that are causing a whole swath of problems, including autism. I think he is about to destroy vaccines in this country. I do.
-- Dr. Paul Offit/2025 [may the MAGA and MAHA be with you]

There's not a single example of things working out for the appeaser.
-- Nicolle Wallace/2024 [like this? the next extortion is on the way]

[Even U.S. producers] will also increase their prices and, in a sense, free-ride this increased pricing environment. The shock for domestically produced goods is likely to be quite significant.
-- Gregory Draxo/2025 [econ pundit, just like me, told ya so]

I don't know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!]

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery.

-- Marriner Eccles/1951

This Week's thought

The atmosphere is like a giant sponge. As the air gets warmer, which is what's been happening because of climate change, the sponge can hold a lot more water. And then when there's a storm, the same sponge can squeeze out way more water than it used to.
-- Arsum Pathak/2025 [may be if physics were a universal requirement in high school, we wouldn't have so many idiots?]

See you next week in a brand new show^{©Heckle and Jeckle}

15 July 2025

The Greatest Threat - part the thirteenth

Today's data release may well be the last "bad news" on Inflation you'll ever see. It's so unfair!! And FALSE!!! And it's all Jerry's fault!!! Garfield 2.0 (a step closer) hereby declares that no data shall be released to the public without approval of the Office of Data Integrity. We can't have FALSE data floating around that Garfield 2.0 (a step closer) get irritated by.

Inflation accelerated in June as President Trump's tariffs started to leave a bigger imprint on the economy, keeping the Federal Reserve on track to hold interest rates steady when policymakers next meet this month.

The Consumer Price Index rose 2.7 percent from a year ago, the swiftest pace since February, data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed on Tuesday. That is slightly higher than expected and is up from an annual pace of 2.4 percent in May.

I am among those who remain convinced that Garfield 2.0 (a step closer) will be done in by a MAGAnaut (a Butler clone), not a Lunatic Lefty, just as Garfield died at the hand of an office seeker. That's the price of spoils system governance. It will happen again.

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