Keep at it volcker5/11/2023 Powell’s Fed has raised interest rates throughout 2022, and looks like it wants to channel Volcker, at least in spirit. Volcker’s rate hikes sent the US economy into the worst recession since the Great Depression during the early 1980s, but it eventually recovered into what’s called the “ Great Moderation”: a more than three-decade stretch when inflation seemed banished even as economic growth returned. The Volcker shock looms large in the mythology of central banking: the moment when neoliberal Zeus slew the old economic Titans standing in the way of progress. Inflation hawks want Powell to go “full Volcker”: follow the elder banker’s example from 1979 and raise interest rates high enough to choke off demand, even at the cost of a devastating recession. In this, Fed Chair Jerome Powell stands in the shadow of his most legendary predecessor, the late Paul Volcker. Since the climax of the last major inflation crisis in the 1970s, independent central bank chiefs willing to administer proverbial harsh medicine - raising interest rates so high they potentially cause a recession - have reigned like near-deities over our economic lives. As inflation persists at multi-decade highs, the pressure is on the Federal Reserve, above all other economic policymaking institutions, to halt rising prices: The central bank announced another interest rate increase Wednesday in its ongoing efforts to combat inflation.
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Utopia avenue by david mitchell5/11/2023 Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco during the autumn of ’68.ĭavid Mitchell’s kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue’s turbulent life and times of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder of the families we choose and the ones we don’t of voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper of music, madness, and idealism. Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post Making your way through this novel feels like riding a high-end convertible down Hollywood Boulevard.”- Slate Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever.
Dragon ops book 15/11/2023 Will Ian and Lilli have what it takes to jump through unfinished levels undetected? Or will they get booted. It's back into virtual reality, but this time it's to Mech Ops, a futuristic world of zombies and evil robots-and the game's not even finished. When Ian and Lilli finally sign back online, it's clear that Atreus has truly been released on the open web-and even worse, Ikumi has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a video game. But when Arlo and his best friends Indra and Wu stumble upon clues about the long-lost Yellow Patrol, Arlo uncovers a stunning history that leads right back to his very own family. But he's legally obligated to never say Dra-er, the name of the game, so how is he supposed to ask for help? It’s also a chance to search for ancient forest spirits and discover mysterious messages encoded in tree bark. everywhere, Ian knows he needs his sister. That's right, Ian, king of online gaming, is out on the soccer court instead. Except there's a major problem: Ian keeps seeing the big bad boss dragon Atreus everywhere, and he can't tell whether it's real or in his imagination. Now safely back at home, Ian and Lilli are free to return to normal life. In this sci-fi adventure, the beloved author of Dragon Ops takes listeners on a thrilling and heart-pounding journey through a high-stakes video game world. I don’t think, as a kid, I ever sang it-I just listened to it-but it was Holy, Holy, Holy.Īnn: Yes, I didn’t go to church, hardly ever, growing up but that is the only one that I do remember I liked it.ĭave: I’ve just heard a recording of our audio engineer, Bruce Goff’s little girl, Estelle Goff, at about 2 or 2 ½ years old, singing the lyrics to this. I’m Ann Wilson.ĭave: And I’m Dave Wilson, and you can find us at or on the FamilyLife ® app.ĭave: Well, there’s a hymn that I heard in church, growing up I think probably all of us have. I can’t dishonor him and think that God doesn’t care.”Īnn: Welcome to FamilyLife Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. Jackie: It was a couple years ago that I had to make the decision: “How I treat Preston is indicative of what I believe about God, literally.” And so it’s like, “I can’t talk crazy to him and think that God doesn’t care. Ishiguro’s tone is perfect: Kathy prattles on as young girls do, registering every crush and cold shoulder and gang-up and spat. Instead she’s focused on personal relationships: with her “best friend”, the bossy Ruth, and the boy she loves, the amiable Tommy. Kathy H says nothing about the unfairness of her fate. Any objections once raised have now been overcome, and the situation is taken for granted – as slavery was once – by beneficiaries and victims alike. This enterprise is wrapped in euphemism: the outer world is greedy for the benefits, but doesn’t wish to acknowledge the cruelty. Once grown, they’ll serve as “carers” to those already being harvested then they’ll be harvested themselves. They don’t have parents, they can’t have children. Its narrator, Kathy H, is examining her school days at a superficially idyllic establishment called Hailsham, which raises children cloned to provide organs to “normal” people. A Kazuo Ishiguro novel is never about what it pretends to be about, and Never Let Me Go is true to form. Forever kindle alexander5/10/2023 “You’re messing with me on purpose, and I can’t really tell if you’re joking, so let me tell you something I haven’t said because I didn’t know if I should. Adams corrected, his face filled with amusement as he gave Landon a racy teasing look. The man had a wonderful laugh, even if it was directed at him, and his dick took notice, plumping underneath his hospital gown. Shit, this wasn’t working out well for Landon at all. Adams did another one of his sudden visual mood shifts and started laughing. I meant sophisticated, if that’s the right word?”ĭr. The intensity coming off the man kind of impressed Landon who lifted his good hand in a peace offering. Adams asked, the fun tone vanished as his eyes narrowed and his brow dropped into a hard V. I don’t even know people like you, so I don’t know how to guess. Yeah, in another place and time, that look would have been sexy as hell. “You think you know me?” The words and tone said something different than the playfulness dancing in Dr. Summer rental by mary kay andrews5/10/2023 Small southern town, old love resurfacing, long standing family business at risk of a corporate takeover – it may sound cliché for chick lit, but Spring Fever is anything but. Throw in Ty, the good looking landlord, and Maryn, a woman on the run from her troubles, and there are twists and turns along the way. They decide to rent a house on the Outer Banks for the month of August as a girls getaway. I’m so happy I did because I thoroughly enjoyed both of them and I’d recommend them to anyone looking for a good dose of romance and chick lit!Įllis, Julia, and Dorie are three women in their mid-30s who have been best friends since grade school. Two of her books, Summer Rental and Spring Fever, had good reviews so I downloaded them for the flights. I stumbled upon an author I had never read before, Mary Kay Andrews. JBook Reviews – Summer Rental & Spring Fever by Mary Kay AndrewsĪ couple of years ago, I was browsing through Goodreads as I prepared for vacation looking for a few books to put on my Kindle. Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost5/10/2023 As he is about to bite her, he suddenly sees that her eyes have changed color to a glowing green - a trait only vampires have - and is forced to believe her story. She tells the truth, but he refuses to believe her. Bones, her vampire captor, believes that she is an assassin working for another vampire, and tries to force her to tell him for whom she is working. When she is momentarily distracted, he knocks her out.Ĭat wakes to find herself chained in a cave. However, he insists that she drive them and is particularly pushy about jumping straight to having sex while Cat tries to stall. The next night, she returns to the bar, where the first vampire she tried to seduce the previous night comes to take her up on her offer. This time, she successfully seduces him and has him drive her away, where she kills him when he drives off into the woods. Confused, Cat orders a drink and is approached by another vampire. On one night, she sees a blond vampire at the bar and attempts to seduce him, but he brushes her off. In revenge for her mother, and because all vampire are murderous killers, Cat often frequents the local bars at night, looking for vampire to seduce and kill. Halfway to the Grave is the first book in the Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost.Ĭat Crawfield is a twenty-two year old half-vampire, the illegitimate daughter of her human mother and an unknown male vampire who left her mother after he raped her. The second book, On the Far Side of the Mountain, is about when Sam’s younger sister, Alice, joins him on the mountain, making a home of her own in a nearby tree. And to my delight, while we were reading it, I discovered that its author, Jean Craighead George, wrote two sequels to My Side of the Mountain. I knew I had to read this book to my eldest son, who is 10 years old, and I hoped he would like it as much as I did. He also becomes friends with The Baron, a weasel, learns the ways of other forest animals, and meets some interesting people, too. He learns to live off the land, and he captures and raises a peregrine falcon, named Frightful, to help him hunt. I wanted to be Sam Gribley, a fifteen-year-old boy who lives alone in a tree in the Catskill Mountains. When I was a young girl, I read My Side of the Mountain, and it instantly became one of my favorite books. Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect Throughout, Sewell rails - in a gentle, 19th-century way - against animal maltreatment Young readers will follow Black Beauty's fortunes, good and bad, with gentle masters as well as cruel Children can easily make the leap from horse-human relationships to human-human relationships, and begin to understand how their own consideration of others may be a benefit to all. Neatly written on Front, free end pape, has owners name Rena F Hoyt. Boston Lothrop Publishing Company, 1898-1890, NEAR MINT copy. Green cloth over boards, beautiful illustration of black horse with gold ride, and gold lettering. ,Boston Lothrop Publishing Company, 1898-1890, NEAR MINT copy. Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company, 1898. |