John Brown's Notes and Essays

Previous entries of this blog, which have appeared near-daily in recent months, can be found via This blog is dedicated to D. Trump, commander in chief of the USA Image from article, "Trump [Plastic] Straws Selling Like Crazy, 1 Million MAGA Hats Sold," TMZ *** Your blogger' pickup of PBWs (plastic water bottles) in the Cleveland Park area of Washington DC, which includes their disposal in public trash receptacles, took place on Monday, 9/23, during his near-daily AM 70-min jog/stroll in that neighborhood of the Imperial Capital: Found/trashed (along with other carelessly dumped waste/junk items too numerous/disgusting to be mentioned here): --On Tilden Street --  one PWB --On Porter Street,  NW DC Trash Kingdom of Plastic Water Bottles  --  two/three (pardon the imprecision) *** News in the News Madeleine Kearns, "Why Ban Plastic Straws? What’s needed is a proportionate, scientific approach — not mere posturing," National Rev...

Previous entries of this blog, which have appeared near-daily in recent months, can be found via This blog is dedicated to D. Trump, commander in chief of the USA image from *** On 9/20, during your blogger's near-daily ca. 70 mins trash-picking stroll/jog in his Cleveland Park neighborhood (located in the NW quadrant of Washington, DC, where part of the magical Rock Creek Park , " an Oasis in the city ," was founded and, thank the All-Mighty and the American taxpayer, still exists) he discovered and picked up (for disposal in nearby public waste receptacles)  four plastic water bottles (PWBs) with labels often seen in his area, e.g. the label "Deer Park": Specifically: --Tilden Street: One pwb, in the reserved parking space of the Embassy of the State of Kuwait  --Porter Street, the Trash Kingdom of PWBs  in Cleveland Park: two.  In your blogger's, he hopes, not unfair/insolent, out-of-District designation to hard-working ...

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The Wall Street Journal , 9/19/2019 Paul J. Davies Updated Sept. 19, 2019 9:04 am ET Bank reserves are normally obscure, even to bankers and professional investors. But this week  they have hit the news  when a shortage of them caused a key measure of borrowing costs—known as the overnight repo rate—to spike. That’s a worry, because typically these more wonky areas of finance only become interesting when something is going wrong. The overnight repo rate, which is what banks and other financial players charge each other to lend cash in exchange for supersafe bonds, should be close to 2%, but it shot up almost as high as 10% on Tuesday. One of the underlying causes of this is a scarcity of reserves compared with the amount of Treasury bonds in the market. That has made banks less willing to lend to each other even in exchange for safe government bonds. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York in lower Manhattan.   PHOTO:  CLAUDIO PAPAPIET...