Harris Wants Price Controls

Kamala Harris wants to crack down on groceries for responding to the the inflation of the money supply which the Federal Reserve Board has created, and to the government’s enormous deficit spending, causing expectations of future inflation, by so-called price gouging. This isn’t the first indication that she has both bad ideas and personal flaws. I am torn between voting for Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in my life, on the grounds that at least she isn’t Trump, and voting Libertarian.

Decades of bungling and irresponsibility have gotten us into an ugly mess, and I expect major trouble ahead.

The Red Queen’s Race, Special Edition

I will make a special observation this week. I began work at the Patent Office on August 31, 1998. A bit more than a year later, U.S. Patent 6,000,000 was issued, on December 7, 2024. On June 4, 2024, U.S. Patent 12,000,000. A majority of the utility patents which the Patent Office has issued over its more than two hundred year history have been issued within the past twenty-five years, during the course of my own employment at the U.S. Patent Office. I don’t know how many of the patents issued from the six millionth through the twelve millionth I was involved in, but one in ten thousand is an order of magnitude estimate.

Now, as to this past week, I didn’t get any amendments, so I’m still at zero cases in my Amended docket. I did a first action on my oldest Regular New application, so that’s something accomplished, and now I’ll try to do a couple more during the next week.