Not good news.  ‘Twas the last trading day before Christmas and all through the market, not a trader was twitching… until today’s PCE print hits… The Fed’s favorite inflation indicator – Core PCE Deflator – printed slightly hotter than expected in November +4.7% YoY vs +4.6% exp (MoM was in-line at +0.2% after an upward […]

Again, I’m not surprised. You cannot have inflation near 10% and wages increasing 3-5% and not think that people are hurting. But what everyone needs to understand is that printing $6 trillion has consequences.   Recently released survey data reports that the majority of Americans are feeling the pain of inflation and living paycheck to

Again, I’m not surprised. You cannot have inflation near 10% and wages increasing 3-5% and not think that people are hurting. But what everyone needs to understand is that printing $6 trillion has consequences.   Recently released survey data reports that the majority of Americans are feeling the pain of inflation and living paycheck to

Parents need to do it right.  Humans are supposedly creatures of habit, but when it comes to visiting a place of religious worship, many American adults have been quick to break with traditions they followed growing up. In a survey conducted in July and August 2022 by Gallup, three quarters of U.S. adults said that

Some fascinating numbers here for Idaho.  (The Center Square) – Washington and Idaho added tens of thousands of people over the last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau numbers released Thursday. This added up to a small population increase in Washington and a significant increase in Idaho. Washington saw a population increase of 45,041 people

Idaho was ranked #1 for home value increases.  The housing market has been red hot during the pandemic, with home prices hitting record highs up until a few months ago. More recently, surging mortgage rates have put some pressure on the housing market, slowing the climb in housing prices. That could be good news for

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory to run between 4:00 Friday morning and 10:00 Friday night. Up to 4 inches of snow could fall on the Palouse. Wind chills are forecast to get down to -15 into Friday morning.

The coldest wind chill on the Palouse early this morning reported by the National Weather Service was near LaCrosse. The wind chill plunged to -30 around 3:30.

When you have a record hot, it’s proof of global warming.  When you have a record cold, it means nothing.  Pullman set a new record low temperature for Wednesday’s date. It reached -20 yesterday smashing the old record for December 21st of -11 set back in 1990. https://pullmanradio.com/record-low-temperature-in-pullman/

Just when we need fiscal responsibility, nearly all the Republicans throw in with the Democrats. There is not a lick of difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to fiscal responsibility.  How did my “conservative” Idaho senators vote? With the herd, naturally.  A pox on all their houses!  The 117th Congress is about to

It never made sense to me that Russia destroyed its own pipeline.  Cui bono? Who gained in the sabotage?  Via ZeroHedge:  A surprising admission has come in a Washington Post report Wednesday morning following a months-long investigation into the Sept. 26 Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline sabotage attacks. While there remains consensus that the

Business as usual? Uh-huh.  The FBI has issued a statement in response to the Elon Musk’s release of THE TWITTER FILES, which boils down to ‘Of course we’ve embedded ourselves in social media companies, and anyone who has a problem with it is a conspiracy theorist trying to tarnish our stellar reputation.’ “The correspondence between

This is because higher ed has become nothing more than VoTech schools. From Michael: The Kansas Board of Regents is actually considering dropping algebra as a requirement at the state’s six public universities because so many students are failing the basic algebra course… The Kansas Board of Regents is considering stripping specific university math requirements

If the Feds won’t do it, the states will.  Texas National Guard troops deployed to El Paso have constructed a razor-wire barrier along the Rio Grande and have been blocking people from making unauthorized crossings into the United States amid a migrant surge and legal back-and-forth about ending Title 42, a Trump-era rule that helped

I’m totally not surprised by this.  BOISE – Idaho continues to be one of the youngest states in the nation with a median age of 36.8 years, ranking seventh according to recently released results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2017-2021 American Community Survey. This is an increase of 3.1% from the previous Census demographic survey, which