County fairs throughout the US are in full swing. Bragging rights include who has the best pie recipe, the best-looking flower arrangements, the largest pumpkin, the juiciest tomatoes or the best craft project? The 4H competitions in horse, goat, chicken, rabbits, etc. are heating up. It is the right time to start practicing eating greasy, …
The Baseball All Star game was always a highlight of my summer growing up. It was the only time you could see the American League take on the National League players outside of the World Series. While there was nothing but prestige on the line, the players took it personally in the 60’s and 70’s. …
The ISM Manufacturing Report released on July 1 reflected a manufacturing sector that is holding its own, thank you very much. The index was at 60.6%. This was slightly below the May report which came in at 61.2, so essentially the same. Anything over 50 indicates expansion. Manufacturing continues to expand, indicating a nice pace …
Hard to believe that July 4th is just a week away. Fireworks, hot dogs, watermelon (with seeds), sparklers, Sulphur snakes, and putting out flags all over the place are my memories of this special holiday. I always thought it was strange that we could not have fire crackers but my grandmother was ok giving us …
Ahh the longest day of the year, the start of astronomical summer. Meteorological summer starts on June 1. Memorialogical summer is celebrated by most of us, recognizing summer to begin on Memorial Day weekend. Schoological summer is what I celebrated when I was young, summer began with the expiration of the last minute of the …
The movie theater has been a staple for my wife and I throughout our dating and marriage, we will celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary next week. The pandemic took us away from our “dates” to get out of the house and see a movie on the big screen. While streaming services provide the content, there …
My first memory of eating fast food was in the back seat of our 1960 Ford Falcon. McDonalds had just opened a site in Bloomington MN and we were all excited to try something new. Eating out, even fast food, was special for us. It was not long before Burger King, Henry’s and other “burger …
The term trifecta is typically associated with horse racing. I am going to use it to recognize a baseball team that has completely proved virtually every early season baseball prognosticator wrong on multiple fronts. As a kid I figured out that if a baseball team falls back to a position of being 10 games out …
This past week was filled with inflation numbers that have come out. As expected, inflation has heated up. Between the supply shortages and liquidity balances that consumers have, no one can be surprised that prices are on the rise. I have written quite a bit about this over the past two months, setting some expectations. …
Last week I predicted the ISM Manufacturing Report would be in the mid 60’s after seeing a number of Fed Manufacturing reports as well as gleaning information from other sources. In March the ISM report was 64.7. The April report was actually 60.7 surprising me as well as many others. Throughout the report the numbers …
County fairs throughout the US are in full swing. Bragging rights include who has the …
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