Gongol.com Archives: December 2017
December 12, 2017
The rise of the know-nothing populists in Europe
Anti-immigrant, anti-modernist parties have gained worrisome degrees of strength in parts of Europe
Why the California wildfires are so bad
Enormous fires, scaling larger than entire major American cities
Doug Jones wins race for Alabama seat in the US Senate
The Democrat is a rare winner for his party in that state, but his opponent took a loathsome route
Why the Mueller investigation could stir up some ugly reactions
It's quite likely on course to reveal deeply untoward behavior on the part of people closest to the President, and that's going to elicit really bad reactionary behavior
The Baltic Dry Index is going up
And since that's a signal of higher export shipping costs, it's really bad news for American farmers who are already dealing with low commodity prices and a President who is too obstinate to see that his anti-trade rhetoric is awful for export-dependent sectors of the economy, like agriculture
