Recession Watch Metrics

found 2025 › May › 05 (Mon) @ 18:50 UTC

a story from Calculated Risk › Calculated Risk

Early in February, I expressed my "increasing concern" about the negative economic impact of "executive / fiscal policy errors", however, I concluded that post by noting that I was not currently on r…

‘A sweeping catastrophe’: 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a photo exhibit honors Mississippi victims

found 2025 › Apr › 25 (Fri) @ 14:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers captures the grief and resilience of survivors in the Magnolia state

Twenty years ago this August, the United States Gulf coast was irrevocably changed when Hu…

Recession Watch Metrics

found 2025 › Apr › 07 (Mon) @ 14:55 UTC

a story from Calculated Risk › Calculated Risk

Early in February, I expressed my "increasing concern" about the negative economic impact of "executive / fiscal policy errors", however, I concluded that post by noting that I was not currently on r…

'I felt like a teen at a school disco - he's one of life's good eggs': Find out if it was a match on this week's Blind Date

found 2025 › Apr › 02 (Wed) @ 20:15 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Every week, FEMAIL asks two singletons to report back from their blind date. This week it's Katrina, 60, and David, 61, but will romance be on the cards for these two hopefuls?

Columbia president resigns after university yields to Trump demands

found 2025 › Mar › 29 (Sat) @ 18:48 UTC

a story from Financial Times › Financial Times

Katrina Armstrong exits a week after the institution agreed to a list of reforms to fend off funding cuts

Can the free press be saved? | Katrina vanden Heuvel

found 2025 › Mar › 13 (Thu) @ 19:14 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

It will take a new movement of responsible readers and benefactors to protect independent media

When Disney announced yet another round of layoffs at ABC News last week, it came on the heels of a year…

How will the bird flu affect the Trump presidency? | Katrina vanden Heuvel

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 20:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Bird flu has already proven a disaster for humans and animals alike. And it could get far worse

Three days after Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization, a Long Isla…

Biden was a remarkably consequential one-term president | Katrina vanden Heuvel

found 2025 › Jan › 20 (Mon) @ 15:17 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

His greatest successes came in domestic policy. Inheriting a post-pandemic economy, Biden orchestrated the best recovery in the industrial world

With his characteristic dyspeptic vitriol, Donald Trump…

October Employment Preview

found 2024 › Nov › 04 (Mon) @ 15:46 UTC

a story from Calculated Risk › Calculated Risk

On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for October. The consensus is for 120,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.1%.

There were 254,000 j…