Gordon's Notes

In the 90s the world kind of made sense. Since then, not so much. I don’t know if teens truly are experiencing an anxiety epidemic, but any ...

I’m having trouble sleeping. There are a few boring reasons for that, but the election is not helping. So it’s time to write while sleep-imp...

From today’s NYT Health section: Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans. Gina Kolata Nov 2, 2015 … middle-aged white American...

For at least two good reasons I’ve been doing a bit of planning. More on those reasons later, but first a digression to answer a relevant qu...

There have been a flurry of articles lately on the cost of raising an American child, including a NYT blog post . This old news to students ...

Salmon of the Trinity [1]  notes that Median net worth has actually been static for about 30 years . So we can either fund social security, ...

It seems like all of my friends and colleagues are managing ailing parents - all at once. Coincidence? Probably not. The 'baby boomers&...

During the last half of the 20th century retail investors earned positive returns with some mixture of stocks, bonds, real estate (personal)...

America is a dog that's been beat too much . Our publicly traded corporations can't get much pull from America's dwindling middl...

I've written recently about the role of religion in the reasoning of the GOP base . This is an  elephant in the room ; pundits will disc...

The GOP wasn't always this crazy. Minnesota's Arne Carlson, for example, wasn't a bad governor. Schwarzenegger had his moments. ...

Just one recent example:  Aggressive Social Engineering Against Consumers As we boomers age, there will be a rich supply of weakened herd m...

The Dow is doing very well, though some expect that to change shortly. For most Americans, however, the Great Recession grinds on. The perce...

( via DeLong and Leonhardt ) Interesting results when one looks at median (not mean) inflation adjusted wages for men aged 25-64 over the...

Five years ago, just before Microsoft Vista was released, our household CIO made a strategic decision. We would move to OS X. It wasn't...

Researchers bet careers, and pharmas bet billions, that amyloid plaques caused neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. If the plaqu...

I've driven from the Great Lakes region to Montreal about twenty times over the past thirty years. The route has changed. Two years ...

I wasn’t smart enough for my undergrad , but the financial support was so good I couldn’t quit. Poverty is the mother of persistence. So I w...

My family spent the afternoon at the neighborhood pool on a hot new-climate spring day. From the looks of things, we'd all do well in a ...

The more humans you know, the harder it is to imagine that civilization can endure. Billions of consumers. Environmental collapse. Climate c...