The Federal Reserve System will need people to fill the gap left by the retirement of the regional presidents for Dallas and Boston, both stepping down after public disclosure of trading activities. Fed vice chair Richard Clarida is also under scrutiny over several millions of dollars’ worth of trades. The Fed could be hiring, or promoting people, in the not-too-distant future.

The famous French socialist economist Thomas Piketty thinks we aren’t  moving toward equality fast enough.  In his Long Live Socialism!, he says this to illustrate how much work remains to be done: ”The poorest 50% of the world’s population is still the poorest 50% of the world’s population” (p.13 of the Amazon Kindle edition).

Justin Trudeau was widely criticized for calling an election during a pandemic, but he thought that his oppressive covid policies would play well with the voting public, which would then reward his minority Liberal government with enough additional seats to give them majority status. He was wrong. The Liberals won the election, but they did not achieve majority status. So much for reading the minds of the voters.

One thing struck me as especially odd about Google’s ban of LewRockwell.com from its advertising program. This was the claim that articles on this site could “undermine participation or trust in electoral or democratic process.” I suppose what is meant is that the site has published articles that suggest there was substance to President Trump’s claim that the election was stolen from him. If people believe this, they are less likely than they would otherwise be to support the electoral process. Why support a process you regard as rigged?