Barkley Rosser

Old friend from Slate Magazine when it was fun to write on it. Then Slate got commercial and we were shooed off. A bunch of us got together in two different cities. Finally met and went our ways as Slate crumbled into a profit center. Some awfully good writers dwelled there as I struggled to put a bunch of words together having some meaning.

Trade Deficit Rose 10.8% in August after July’s 30.4% Jump, Implying a 3.14% Hit to Q3 GDP r.j. sigmund: Our trade deficit rose by 13.7% in August as the value of our exports increased but the value of our imports increased by nearly four times as much….the Commerce Dept report on our international trade in goods and services for August indicated that our seasonally adjusted goods and services trade deficit rose by a rounded $12.7 billion to $105.6 in August, from a July deficit of $92.8...

Margaret Hamilton was mostly responsible for developing the software recognizing higher priority needs of Apollo while landing on the Moon. The programing would drop lesser needs to handle the more serious needs without jeopardizing Apollo 11. An interesting concept. Margaret Hamilton 1936–2026 Aviation Circle: The aviation and space world has lost one of its great pioneers.