[Rose Lane Says: Thoughts on Race, Liberty, and Equality 1942-1945 by Rose Wilder Lane, Edited by David T. Beito and Marcus Witcher. South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2024; 308pp.]

Readers are doubtless familiar with the concept of a trick question, in which the asking of the question is meant to purposely mislead the answerer into a seemingly obvious, but wrong, answer. This can include jokes, puzzles, and riddles. In this case, a trick question is posed in order to prove a point (but the reader is forewarned about the nature of the question): How many times have nuclear weapons been used?

Money-supply growth rose year over year in November for the fourth month in a row, the first time this has happened since the four months ending in October of 2022. The current trend in money-supply growth suggests a significant and continued turnaround from more than a year of historically large contractions in the money supply that occurred throughout much of 2023 and 2024. As of November, the money supply appears to be entering a new and accelerating growth period.