Commentary

Maryland's soaring electric bills and threatened blackouts are coming to Minnesota.

The head of BLS should have been fired long ago. The most important trend is the decline in illegal workers and the availability of more jobs for legal residents.

Having a good voice leave Minnesota causes reflection on how rapid the deterioration of our state has been under the Incompetent Blowhard.

A fairly weak jobs report for July, which may prompt an interest rate cut.

The second quarter GDP report suggests that the economy is okay--not great, probably not weakening.

The labor market is looking pretty stable right now.

Largely shorter-end sales of US debt this week, which generally went off okay.

A review of research in the July 2025 Health Affairs issue.

The trade talks appear to be reaching final stages, with little impact on the trade deficit, but a probably beneficial outcome for the US economy.

New research gives a much lower estimate of deaths averted by CV-19 vaccines.

Another study revealing the evils of gender dis-affirming care and sexual mutilation.

How this can be when we are told the planet is on fire is mystifying, but weather-related deaths are at an extreme low in the first half of 2025.

An exceptional day of bad journalism even for the abysmal Star Tribune.

A review of the interesting research in a recent issue of Health Affairs.

The local news is just nothing but crime and fraud.