July 10, Michael Davis, economics professor at the Cox School of Business, SMU Dallas, for an op-ed analyzing the latest economic indicators and concluding that this is no time for Americans to get comfortable. Published in the Orange County Register under the heading When the economy satisfies like comfort food, could be time to exit your comfort zone: https://tinyurl.com/4pf2473v
The latest numbers on unemployment remind me of our family’s normal dinner routine.
That’s because we don’t have a normal dinner routine. Our daughter does four sports, one of them year-round. There is dance, homework and — sacred of sacreds — Family Movie Night. Sure, some nights end in a delicious pot roast served the minute the soccer cleats come off. We’d like to think that’s normal. But what about the other nights (OK, many other nights) that end with peanut butter and banana sandwiches eaten in the car?
The employment numbers feel like that pot roast dinner — an economic comfort food moment in a time where the political news is going from weird to weirder.