I’ll be the first to admit that I know nothing about the economy and what makes things tick. And I know that, politically, I tend to be a bit biased.<\/p>\n
But yesterday’s stock market activity sprouted countless articles and news reports that this could be an indicator of a potential recession. Potential recession? Like I said, I’m probably rather clueless…but based on what the media has reported for, say, oh….the past 7 years, we’ve been in a recession since the final few months of Clinton’s administration. And since 9\/11, it seems that there are weekly reports about inflation or a housing crisis or employment levels or the economy or the deficit…and how there is barely any good news for any of these things.<\/p>\n
And now we could be entering<\/em> a recession? When did the last one end? Did I miss it?<\/p>\n Truth be told, the last (or current) recession never personally affected me. Hell, even the big one in the early 90’s (while I was working two jobs to get through college) never affected me. Maybe that’s why I didn’t notice that the last one ended?<\/p>\n Now as for politics…what the hell is up with Mitt Romney and his presidential campaign? First, he’s a bigger flip-flopper than Kerry ever was (at least Kerry’s “change of opinion” was based on him not knowing the facts when he approved the war in Iraq). Still, I can accept changing your mind – it’s a woman’s prerogative, after all.<\/p>\n But what’s up with his France-bashing? And what the hell does France have to do with his presidency here? I’ve been to France twice and had a lovely time. And France has been around a lot longer than the United States…so what, exactly, are they doing wrong? Sure, they had race\/class riots a year and a half ago. But we’ve got our own issues, too (Katrina, any one?).<\/p>\n Now Romney’s campaign is considering bumper stickers that say “First, not France”. What the hell does that mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ll be the first to admit that I know nothing about the economy and what makes things tick. And I know that, politically, I tend to be a bit biased. But yesterday’s stock market activity sprouted countless articles and news reports that this could be an indicator of a potential recession. Potential recession? Like I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}