Mushy

There is nothing quite as terrifying — and remember this is coming from a person who has to defeat a baseline fear of driving to drive at all — as pushing your brake pedals and it goes mushy on you. And maybe it has some effect but it’s not what you expect.

As some of you know I’m not a trusting person. Born under one form of socialism, raised under another. Why would I be? Precisely?

So I’m more or less always sniffing the wind, looking for signs, because the economic numbers are not...