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Monthly Archives: August 2022
The Trends, They Are A-Changing
Alan Zendell, August 30, 2022 For a year-and-a-half, many Democrats criticized President Biden for being too passive in the face of unrelenting attacks from the right and the extremes within his own party. They asked, “Why doesn’t he fight back?” … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Schumer, energy prices, equity markets, EU, inflation, jobs, Joe Manchin, kevin mccarthy, MAGA, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, NATO, President Biden, russia, supreme court, Ukraine, unemployment, vladimir Putin
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Fighting Dirty
Alan Zendell, August 26, 2022 Michelle Obama liked to say about politics, “When they go low, we go high.” It was a lovely sentiment that endeared her to millions of Americans, because it resonated with what we’d been taught to … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative facts, autocracy, COVID loans, Fascism, hypocrisy, Joe Biden, lies, MAGA, Michelle Obama, midterm elections, precedent, right-wing judges, student loans, supreme court
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The Double-edged Sword of Technology
Alan Zendell, August 23, 2022 Ask any computer or IT specialist about technology, and you’ll hear a litany of all the ways our twenty-first century world couldn’t function without it. Everything from cars, planes, electronics, televisions – even modern refrigerators … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymity, Carrington event, cars, computer chips, computers, EMP, Facebook, fake identity, hackers, Internet, IT, Mudge, national security, nuclear weapons, Peiter Zatko, solar flares, spy networks, Twitter, whistle blower
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The Greatest Threat to America
Alan Zendell, August 18, 2022 Former president Donald Trump’s son, Eric, is routinely mocked by stand-up comedians as being dimwitted. I have no idea why, but it’s one more testament to the media’s ability to influence the opinions of Americans … Continue reading
Inflection Points
Alan Zendell, August 16, 2022, President Biden often says we are at an inflection point in our history. In mathematics, an inflection point defines when a downward trend turns upward, or vice versa. That sounds very technical, but applied to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Kinzinger, changing trends, climate change, congress, DOJ, Donald Trump, drug prices, espionage, gasoline prices, Georgia, history, inflation, insurrection, Liz Cheney, mathemtics, Merrick Garland, New York, President Biden, recession, right wing extremism, Rudy Giuliani, russia, supreme court, Ukraine, veterans, violence
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Forecasts and Outcomes
Alan Zendell, August 6, 2022 When historians write about the last few years, “forecasts and outcomes” might well be the tag line. As marketing and government systems, social networks, and statisticians collected mountains of data, and computers crunched them, we … Continue reading
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Tagged CHIPS, COVID, data, economic data, failed models, forecasting models, global warming, historical database, inflation, Inflation Reduction Act, information processing, jobs, PACT, political polls, predictions, Trump's legal jeopardy, unemployment, weather forecasts
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Unintended Consequences
Alan Zendell, August 2, 2022 Some people plan everything they do in agonizing detail. Others, like me, play things by ear, trusting that we can adapt to changing conditions as they arise. That’s not to say we never think about … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Yang, atomic bomb, centrists, Civil Rights, cold war, COVID, FDR, fossil fuels, guns, health care, insurrection, korea, nuclear arms race, Obama, planning, reagan, Science, social security, Soviet Union, supreme court, taxes, Trump, Ukraine, vladimir Putin, Volodymir Zelensky, white supremacists, women's right, worst case scenarios
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