- GOP SCC will Select 3 Treasurer candidates (from 10 Candidates) for the Gov to pick from.
- Only 1 institutional investor.
- Several CPAs. One with no direct financial experience
- SCC races:
- 16 for 7 seats on Constitution & Bylaws Committee, including yours truly.
- 12 for 5 seats on Audit committee, which is unusual including St. Auditor John Dougall.
- Around 3 people for each CD, which has 2 openings and puts you on the EC.
- Inflation: 5% YOY, yet 10 year treasury yields 1.5%, someone is losing out.
- 1980s inflation calculation if used today: 15%!
- Oil back to $70/barrel (41 gallons).
- Used car prices up 30% due to demand and lack of new cars because of the chip shortage.
- US No longer energy independent: Sigh.
- FL & IA this week banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory.
2 questions for Treasurer candidates:
- What state does not allow Title insurance? Should we do what they do?
- IA runs it and it's about 1/6 the cost of standard! Really made them bump up against paradigms.
- What state has a state-run bank not connected with the Federal Reserve system?
- Half of the pandemic unemployment stolen! Fraud? $400B.
- US 31st in Math.
