Fed raises interest rates by largest amount since 1994 to fight inflation

The Washington Post makes this sound like a big deal, but in 1994 inflation was only 2.6%, now it is over 8%. And in 1994 the overnight interest rate controlled by the Fed was 4.2%, now it is only 1.6%.

Note that back in 1994, the Federal Funds rate was higher than the ( Read more... )

emotional shock layers still dropping off,

can I sleep yet?

the cats have me envious, so much sleep, surrounding me with sleep, their sleep rays help, by sleeping you help save the universe,

I probably need this Time to Self to process, people who know me are like -- keep in touch but let him be -- is that the rule with Bug, heh ( Read more... )

So why am I not anti-drug? I've been close to several people who I believed were suffering from drug problems -- even people who destroyed their lives with drug abuse -- yet I'm a libertarian when it comes to drug laws ( Read more... )

I'm thankful for my readers ( Read more... )

sometimes, nay, most of the time, after a Bug Night, I wake up with some anxiety ... having to reintegrate myself back into the world ( Read more... )

and this is the effect of tossing art into the world -- people react to it in unexpected ways ( Read more... )

He's naked when I arrive, playing 80s porn (I think, 80s, from the quality, I didn't watch porn back then ( Read more... )

"I'm alone at last with every other me"

I forgot that I Tweeted this line from The Notwist when I had some Time to Self on December 26 :-)

After bringing artists into his modest space, he likes to start with a simple question: “What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you?”

On the one hand, I want to say that nothing that bad has ever happened to me. But I know it hasn't always felt that way ( Read more... )

I believe we should read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us with a blow to the skull, then why are we even reading it? So that it will make us happy, as you write? My God, we’d also be happy if we had no books, and the kinds of books that could make us happy, we could write ourselves if we had to. We need ( Read more... )