…Some celebrated MX Day on Friday & others will celebrate today. It’s an official holiday in Berkeley What do you think of the idea of making MX Day a federal holiday? ….
…The NYT says the G7 crew is unpopular at home & was full of troubling info like the fact that only “4 out of 22 major countries studied had approval ratings above 50%” & “freedom has retreated around the world 17 years in a row.”…
…Please monitor the situation in Bangladesh & Burma where Cyclone Mocha hit. It was a Cat 4 storm with winds & storm surges that could knock out lots of dwellings. .. As you know, folks in that part of the world are burdened by conflict, poverty, & weak community resilience. They simply cannot afford another disaster. Please figure out a way to help them.
…a default on our debt will make the value of the $$ plunge worldwide. Someone quoted in the G called it “economic apocalypse.” You could always choose to ignore Congress & continue to pay the debt since Alexander Hamilton insisted, the fed government needs “a national credit rating beyond cavil or reproach.”