Third try at pasing a town budget tonight at the school. Sign in is at 6:30 PM.  Voting is expected at 7:00 PM. Will be a paper ballot.
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The U.S. Treasury has been dipping, or as it is also known “disinvesting”, into the G-fund and the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (CSRDF). In a nutshell, since the debt ceiling breach in mid May, Tim Geithner has replaced one IOU (that of the Fed) with another (that of the Treasury) in the...
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From The Zillow Blog: Home values are still falling, but not as quickly as they were late last year. From March to April, the Zillow Home Value Index declined 0.77%, compared with a decline of 0.89% from November to December 2010. While that’s a positive sign, home values are still falling too rapidly for...
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The government long ago, (Jimmy Carter time frame) eliminated certain items from the official calculation of the rate of inflation.  Specifically food and energy (gas).  The graph below calculates inflation with the old formula with food and energy included and compares with the new and improved government approved inflation rate.   The data speaks for...
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Do you find this funny? If so why? I have my theories.
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From the Shadow Stats Website: The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline...
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) will release their April survey on Tuesday, June 14th. Here is a pre-release of the employment results from NFIB: NFIB Jobs Statement: On Main Street, Job Creation is Collapsing “After solid job gains early in the year, progress has slowed to a trickle … meaningful job creation...
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CT Mirror: Nonpartisan legislative analysts say they can vouch for less than 40 percent of the $1.6 billion in labor savings figured into the next biennial budget, and are unable to assess the rest–more than $1 billion–because of unanswered questions or insufficient data, according to a memo submitted late Monday to the General Assembly....
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The sign in the Center of  Town says May 25th.  I read the 25th and assumed the month was right. THE NEXT BUDGET VOTE WILL BE ON JUNE 15TH  AT THE SCHOOL, SIGN IN STARTS AT 6:30pm. The third budget presented will look a lot like the 2nd, identical.  The BOF decided to re-present...
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