This week, Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) hosts a trifecta of mini-commentaries plucked from the pages of our working press. Any anniversary of Sept. 11 would not be complete without a pass at its bureaucratic legacy, the Department of Homeland Security. As well, there’s a thought about the future tycoons of China, now thatContinue reading “3 At Feed: DHS & TSA, China’s Richest and Food Labeling”
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At the Feed: Ida’s Rebuild, ‘Traffic Violence,’ Gen-Z Invests, Vax Cards, Dailies in Distress
This week at Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) are *5* brief comments from items in the current press. Of course, the post-Ida storm response is one–should we keep tempting fate by restoring communities? Also: the alleged injustice of “traffic violence,” the reassuring aspect of Gen-Z’s bent toward equities (as opposed to equity), the trickyContinue reading “At the Feed: Ida’s Rebuild, ‘Traffic Violence,’ Gen-Z Invests, Vax Cards, Dailies in Distress”
At My Feed: Trains, Planes, Hospitals, Wall St. Touts
At Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) this week, you can read my quick observations on current topics: Commuter-train counts show how dreadfully slow is Manhattan office districts’ rebound from the pandemic pounding; airports such as LAX are rich public assets just waiting to be turned into funding sources to rescue indebted municipalities like LosContinue reading “At My Feed: Trains, Planes, Hospitals, Wall St. Touts”
Week’s Feed: Henri Blows, Asian Negation, NYC Crime
This week at Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) is a trio of items touching on what the latest big storm (Henri) to hit the East Coast should remind us about living and building on the edge of cruel nature; on the latest disappointments in Covid-wracked Southeast Asia, which are not just economic; and onContinue reading “Week’s Feed: Henri Blows, Asian Negation, NYC Crime”
Housing Boom? Not in Land of Lincoln
You’d think housing prices are rising everywhere in America, the way the current boom is discussed. And that’s nearly true, for lots of reasons: the low interest rates on mortgages; the bidding up of asset prices at a time of loose money; the desire for bigger and more distanced properties in the pandemic, and theContinue reading “Housing Boom? Not in Land of Lincoln”
At My Feed: Coffee Jolt, Gen-Z Blues, Ozark Immigration, Newsletters
This week’s quartet of mini-commentaries at Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) addresses the latest coverage of increases in coffee-bean prices; the costly lives of Millennials and Gen-Z (not just their joes!) and whether parents aren’t helping; the missing politics of an economic look at immigration in the Ozarks, and the popularity of digital “newsletters”Continue reading “At My Feed: Coffee Jolt, Gen-Z Blues, Ozark Immigration, Newsletters”
This Week at Feed: Student Debt, Homeless, Convention Centers
At Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) are three new items this week, all on matters of big looming taxpayer obligations: The $1.7 trillion in U.S. post-secondary student debt, the seemingly intractable problem of people from living on America’s urban streets, and the vast convention centers that municipalities erected to try to attract a veryContinue reading “This Week at Feed: Student Debt, Homeless, Convention Centers”
Newsfeed: Gas Hookups, Influencers, Seat Belts, Jakarta
At (Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) you’ll find new mini-commentaries on these items from current media: An effort to prevent gas hookups for new construction in Massachusetts, in order to curb fossil-fuel use; a push (again in the Northeast) to further criminalize failure to wear seat belts as road deaths are rising; the risingContinue reading “Newsfeed: Gas Hookups, Influencers, Seat Belts, Jakarta”
4 New Feeds: GMO, China, Unilever, 187
I’m alerting subscribers here to four new items in recent days at my newsfeed. Please go to www. timwferguson.com/news for the bits and pieces. The four items concern a renewed plea for GMO foods, the risks that mainstream global investors face from Xi Jinping’s crackdown on certain Chinese companies, the conundrum that show-off progressive companyContinue reading “4 New Feeds: GMO, China, Unilever, 187”
Kindly check out my newsfeed
I’ve got a new stream of mini-commentaries keyed to items of note from the current press. They aren’t fully developed blog posts so they don’t appear in this feed, but rather at timwferguson.com/news. This added feature is an opportunity to flag articles that I find noteworthy, as well as to communicate more frequently with readersContinue reading “Kindly check out my newsfeed”