Congress

It’s summer, so the temperatures are rising in America, adding stress to automobiles motoring down highways. Modern cars have long had dashboards that communicate their health to the driver.

We all know the old saw about slowly boiling a frog.  It is a cruel idea but demonstrates how the consequences of steady, yet destructive behaviors can sneak up on us if we aren’t careful.  America has been growing its levels of debt for years.  Some have worried about the outcome while others are more sanguine.  For now, those remaining calm have been on the right sid

With the unofficial start to summer right around the corner, “Summertime” from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess which premiered in Boston in 1935 is frequently playing on the Atlas jukebox.  This story centers around an African American couple living in South Carolina on Charleston’s impoverished Catfish Row.

Cycles govern much of our world.  The Beatles taught us that when the sun moves lower in the sky for a portion of the year we shouldn’t fret about the cold lasting forever.  Economies also ebb and flow as the business cycle moves from periods of expansion into usually relatively short intervals of contraction.  Even breathing is cyclical.