[upon reading posts on this thread, I edited what I thought was a non-controversial side note:

I'm not sure what I think about this, but it is interesting:

Someone in Portland, Or. tagged a Jewish Deli with a swastika and the news media is going ape shit over it. All four local news stations are reporting it every news segment with suspiciously similar scripts.
They are all national news affiliates that we are all familiar with.

It's necessary to understand the importance of the treasury market to the U.S. economy.
For instance, to the financial markets a treasury bond is the equivalent of cash. Think of that $20 bill in your pocket as twenty dollars in treasuries (but without any yields).
Another way to think of treasuries is the same as holding a share of stocks in the U.S. economy.

Morning, all

The NY Times has a huge article in the print edition about the coming changes to SS and its benefits.

https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2022/10/09/business/social-security-cola

In Brief, the COLA increase, touted a few months ago as being 10% or more----Sorry. Now looks like 8.7%.

Big Lies

A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, used especially as a propaganda technique. The German expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his book Mein Kampf (1925), to describe the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."

The following supposed quotation of Joseph Goebbels has been repeated in numerous books and articles and on thousands of web pages, yet none of them has cited a primary source. According to the research and reasoning of Randall Bytwerk, it is an unlikely thing for Goebbels to have said. None the less it seems a common and effective strategy.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

[video:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k34K-vxUn0c]

Despite a full-press pressure campaign by the West, OPEC cut their production by twice as much as expected. What I find interesting is the reaction in Washington.

Afternoon folks!

Here's another batch of great stuff for you all. There is a Slim Harpo compilation album and one by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. There's a mess of blues rock with usual suspects Savoy Brown and Rory Gallagher plus The Pretty Things. To top it off, there's some rockabilly with Robert Gordon and some western swing with Cowboy Jazz.

Enjoy!