Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 48. Sunrise is 6:48 and sunset is 4:30 for 9 hours 42 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 11.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1914, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
Catherine Rampell nicely summarizes the Trump Administration’s economic errors:
THE PARTY IN POWER just lost an election because the party out of power hammered them hard for not cutting prices. If that sounds familiar, it’s because pretty much the same thing happened last year, except the antagonists have swapped places.
Turns out it’s easy to win while running as an outsider promising “affordability.” It’s much harder to actually do anything about it.
It’s doubly hard if you insist the problem doesn’t exist in the first place and suggest voters should just shut up about it. Triply hard if your economic policy agenda (cough-cough, tariffs) cuts in the opposite direction, making life more expensive.
In short, President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have learned nothing from how badly Joe Biden and the Democrats bungled inflation. Instead they’re repeating some of the same mistakes and adopting the same useless gimmicks. Only this time, they’re also pursuing policies that make the problem worse…
In the long run the best ways to make life more “affordable” are to pass policies that boost productivity and wages; make the supply of things that are expensive—such as housing and energy—more plentiful; and perhaps provide targeted subsidies on specific expenses like health care.
(Emphasis added.)
See Catherine Rampell, Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap That Ensnared Biden (‘Republicans learned nothing from how badly Dems bungled inflation’), The Bulwark, November 13, 2025.
Policies — perhaps especially local ones — should increase, whenever possible, the supply of housing and energy for Whitewater.
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