Answers after the jump.

Data released by Wells Fargo — which surveyed 2,300 adults — in October sheds some light on four basic financial questions that people couldn’t answer.

Which of the following statements describes the main function of the stock market?

A) The stock market brings people who want to buy stocks together with people who want to sell stocks.
B) The stock market helps predict stock earnings
C) The stock market results in an increase in the price of stocks
D) None of the above
E) Not sure

If you had $100 in a savings account and the interest rate was 2 percent per year, after 5 years, how much do you think you would have in the account if you left the money to grow?

A) Exactly $102
B) Less than $102
C) More than $102
D) Not sure

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SHOT: Romney about Russia

“This is without question our number one geopolitical foe, they fight for every cause for the world’s worst actors”

CHASER: Obama

And, the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because, the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.

HANGOVER:  The CDC will brief the public on preparing for nuclear war

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Along comes Zandra Rice-Hawkins of Granite State Progress (GSP) who says… “hold my beer.”

This has got to be one of the more stupid things I’ve seen on the Twitterverse in a while. Clearly, Hawkins and her sidekick over at GSP have never worked in a restaurant or actually worked in customer service or with customers, EVER, anywhere.

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Seattle is a city on a crazy train to the liberal utopia. They implemented a gun tax and mandated higher minimum wages (which unintentionally pushed people off welfare and housing programs). There’s a special high Earners tax. The city banned affordable and convenient plastic bags. Their proudly gay (and married) mayor only resigned after his fifth child sex assault accusation. And on January 1st, this west coast Sanctuary city began charging a sugary drink tax.

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The problem is that I doubt this is an isolated incident:

If you are thinking of building a bridge, be careful if your engineer went to Purdue University. Donna Riley, the head of the engineering department at Purdue, has put the world on notice that “rigor” is a dirty word. In an article for Engineering Education called “Rigor/Us: Building Boundaries and Disciplining Diversity with Standards of Merit,” Professor Riley, who is also the author of Engineering and Social Justice, argues that academic “rigor” is merely a blind for “white male heterosexual privilege.” Yes, really. . . . Professor Riley’s gibberish is meant in earnest. Her essay appears not in a science fiction journal or a publication intended for the denizens of a sanatorium but a journal concerned with science. This woman is the head of a department of engineering in an institution of higher education. The moral is, we suppose, that things are always worse than they seem.

This doesn’t make me feel much better, either:

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Once again, it goes back to measurement – surprise, surprise (after the jump):

SHOT: We need more diversity because MORE ADMINISTRATION!!!!

Read through the official DEI materials and you soon feel overwhelmed by inspiring platitudes and glossy pictures of smiling minorities. As I noted in an earlier Michigan Review article, the administration has a nasty habit of hiding potentially controversial policy decisions deep in a matrix of feel-good fluff and pages of meaningless drivel, such as:

Your passion for making us better, your belief that all individuals deserve an equal opportunity to succeed and your unwavering dedication to the highest aspirations of our university.

Whether DEI will accomplish that is questionable, but the plan certainly succeeded in adding new positions within the administration, including the vice provost for equity, inclusion, and academic affairs. According to UM Salary, the University of Michigan’s open salary database, the provost earned $385,000 during the 2016-2017 school year.

Read the rest – if you have even a passing interest in SJW disruption in higher education, you’ll at least want to speed read through this.

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Not that long ago, opposition to the devolution of power from the states and the people to the ruling class in the Nation’s Capital was racist, among other things. And if you wanted to use your first amendment right of association to pursue such ideas the IRS might sweat you like a drug smuggler caught at Turkish customs.

But when a Republican Attorney General says he intends to enforce the law as passed by Congress and signed by some previous president, Democrat’s have a come-to-the Tenth amendment moment.

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On Friday, a Letter to the Editor appeared in the Concord Monitor that explains why New Hampshire Representative Katherine Rogers (D-Concord) should resign after pleading guilty to assaulting a citizen. A majority of Granite Staters, including Democrats, believe Rogers should resign.

New Hampshire House Representative Jan Schmidt (D-Nashua) decided to comment on the LTE and not only lied about the assault but doesn’t believe Rogers should resign. From her comments:

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The media homonculi in the shared Democrat party narrative “room” in the bowels of Washington DC is continuously cranking out bumper-sticker BS sold by so-called experts. They force feed it into the collectivist unconscious where it pops up in news-feeds, internet searches, and gets regurgitated by people who want something to say but have no interest in whether or not it is true. One such revealed left wing truth is the specter of illegal internet gun sales as the impetus for mass shootings.

To validate their narrative, two prominent Congressional Democrats demanded an investigation into Illegal Internet Sales in hopes that the results would feed their propaganda mill.

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