▪ In economics, Ford settled on his base premise early on: that inflation was more ruinous to more people than recession and that it could be contained only at the cost of some pain in added unemployment. His rare candor in saying so has won him high marks, even among liberals who object to his policies. He can, moreover, claim with some statistical support that Fordonomics is working—that the slump is bottoming out and that inflation has come down from double to single-digit levels.

I was being flip with the dinner-date suggestion. And my age would surely provoke some discussion relative to the HSTS and AG thing which I'd rather not go into.

… since some SGM are forced by stigma to socialize or date in secret, in unfamiliar settings, …

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