Snapping...

The New York City Subway, scoliotic backbone of the country’s most powerful urban economy, is snapping. On-time performance has dropped from 85 percent in 2011 to 63 percent today.

Gov. Cuomo declared the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was in a "state of emergency,"  The declaration comes after a  power issue left hundreds of LIRR commuters stranded outside Penn Station for two hours.

There was an average of 5.7 million daily riders last year - with 49 days that saw the number of daily passengers crack six million. Annual ridership, meanwhile reached 1.7 billion  another high point since 1948.

New Yorkers spend more time in the subway system going to work and home.
The politicians are nowhere to be found. Talk talk talk.

Insecurity...*

We are all more obsessed with our appearance than we like to admit. But this is not an indication of 'vanity'.  Concern about appearance is quite normal and understandable. 

The real problem with insecurities isn’t that you think you’re short / overweight / big ears / virgin. The reason your insecurities limit your life is because of what you think other people think of You.

German psychoanalyst Eric Fromm said, “The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.” Every likable person has periods of sheer insecurity. 

Insecurity, vulnerability of spirit, is essentially humility, which is a divine quality. In fact, since pride is considered to be the origin of sin, humility would be the greatest spiritual virtue. With insecurity, we admit that it’s not all about us, and that philosophy of self centeredness is quite lovely. 

There are always two realities running parallel to each other at any given time: the one outside your mind and the one within. Sometimes taking a step back is all you need to see that whatever you're concocting in your mind has very little to do with reality. Instead, it's just your fears and anxieties taking hold of you. When you're feeling anxious, remember: is this reality or is this just my made-up reality?

People only let you see what they want you to see. Behind those drawn curtains is something much less enviable. No one is as they seem, and there's no reason to measure your lot up to anyone else's.        But what you do and how to react towards others based on your own insecurity is something else.                              Just a thought.

De-Flation...*

Inflation will stay low.

Agricultural commodity prices, excluding meats, have crashed. Corn, wheat and soybean prices have plummeted on expectations of bumper crops around the world particularly in the United States. Heavy rains in the growing regions have altered the outlook for drought-stricken areas (except California) and have led to a major decline in prices.

Energy prices have also dropped from recent highs close to  $90 a barrel to $50. Natural gas prices have slumped to below $4 per thousand BTUs. Milder summer weather, and burgeoning supplies of natural gas, have caused prices to crash. 

Interest rate and the slope of the yield curve. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note is below 2.5%, as the yield curve is flattening.  Wage inflation, is also a non-starter. Wages are rising at a 2 percent to 2.5 percent annual rate, hardly the stuff of wage-price spirals. 

The velocity of money, from the St. Louis Fed, is near zero. It needs to accelerate markedly to make the case that policy-inspired inflation is on the horizon.   [August 15, 2014]

This may be coming to an end, except the oil.  Just a thought.

East...

Irma impacts the East and the West coasts of Florida.

Subway...

Ready for the next Pandemic.. May be.

DACA...

The problem with this program is the  traffickers who buy and sell, convince poor people to ship kids out of their homes, families, fathers, mothers and siblings and leave them in the borders of the USA.
Traffickers and migrants are all over the world and in the process many migrants died. 
Just a thought.

Run...

Call...

ARK...

Violet...

• President Donald Trump agrees to support a Hurricane Harvey relief bill packaged with a short-term debt ceiling extension and government funding.