Inflation continues to be present, particularly in items consumers have to buy--food, housing, clothes, medical care, car insurance.

Drug overdose deaths may be down in Minnesota, but total overdoses rose, as nothing is done to reduce drug trafficking.

Another mediocre US debt sale confirms that the Federal Reserve doesn't control rates in that market.

An intervention to reduce opioid deaths fails to do so.

An annual report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission to Congress discusses several key issues.

A bad three-year US debt auction is a preview of more difficulties ahead.

A new re-analysis shows the typical flaws in pro-masking studies.

Two studies indicate the need for careful reading and avoidance of using research to just desired outcomes.

Another study attempts to calculate excess deaths during the epidemic in the Western world, noting that many were not attributable to CV-19.

The Bureau of Lying Statistics miraculously finds a record new 800,000 government jobs to make the September employment numbers look really good, if they weren't completely fake. Private sector hiring…

An ongoing study examines the global burden of disease, including causes of death.

New methods again demonstrate that we are currently in a cool period and there is nothing unprecedented about today's climate.

Little Timmy Walz revealed his lying, incompetent self on the debate stage.

First in a series of looks at temperatures from Minnesota's supposedly more pristine weather stations.

The monthly BLS report on job openings and separations has some suspect numbers, as usual.