Sherr & Taylor Consulting

05/22/2024

"In the poll, 55% think the economy is only getting worse.

Some have called the phenomenon a “vibecession”, a term first coined by the economics writer Kyla Scanlon to describe the widespread pessimism about the economy that defies statistics that show the economy is actually doing OK.

While inflation has been down, prices are at a higher level compared with just a few years ago. And prices are still going up, just at a slower pace than at inflation’s peak.

Americans are clearly still reeling from price increases. In the poll, 70% of Americans said their biggest economic concern was the cost of living. About the same percentage of people, 68%, said that inflation was top of mind." Lauren Aratani from The Guardian

04/02/2024

11/05/2023

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02/07/2023

"If you realize, “I don’t want to be thinking about this, but I feel like I can’t stop,” that’s when you know your thinking is compulsive and is considered rumination, said Michael Greenberg, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles who specializes in rumination and obsessive-compulsive disorder, or O.C.D." NYT

Stuck in a mental loop of worries and problems that seem to have no end? Here’s what you can do.

02/06/2023

09/24/2022

"During the last week of September, the IJC will be in Niagara Falls, Ontario, for two events: the governments’ 2022 Great Lakes Public Forum and an IJC evening public meeting"

09/01/2022

"The election reform passed that November, a victory that Gehl, who donated to and raised money for the Alaska measure, said she saw it as the first step toward her goal of having “final five” voting systems in place in five states by 2024 — “which would mean having 10 senators who have been freed from the tyranny of the party primary.” NYT
By Blake Hounshell and Charles Homans

08/31/2022

The Guardian Archie Bland posted: "The most striking line in Pjotr’s piece is a tribute from Gorbachev’s friend Alexei Venediktov, former head of a radio station forced off air over its coverage of the war in Ukraine: “We have all become orphans. But not everyone has understood it yet.”

08/25/2022

"But the finance industry, which has increasingly embraced products promising to address issues like climate change and inequality, is striking back, arguing that Republican policies put the financial security of US savers in serious jeopardy. "—Natasha Solo-Lyons at Bloomberg

08/04/2022

"For the last several decades, this unobserved decay has dominated the physics community’s discussion of tantalum. “Every nuclear physicist has heard of this problem; it’s an open, standing question,” said Samuel Meijer, also a staff scientist at Los Alamos.

Massarczyk and Meijer are primary investigators, PI and co-PI, respectively, for a new experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) that may finally measure this elusive decay."

Tantalus, a villainous demigod in Greek mythology, is perhaps best known for his punishment.

07/24/2022

"According to preliminary genetic analyses of samples from infected patients, the monkeypox genome seems to have collected nearly 50 mutations since 2018, more than the six or seven it would have been expected to amass in that period." NYT

07/14/2022

"The staffing crisis is part of a national trend: As more workers level up in the job market or set up their own businesses, and as others opt out for lack of child care, a phenomenon known as the Great Resignation has taken hold. But, to paraphrase Tolstoy, each workplace fosters unhappiness in its own way." NYT