My Favorite Chart Updated — February 27, 2025

Locator: 48435MMF.

Link here.

Elsewhere, holy mackerel, link here:

Washington, DC; February 27, 2025—Total money market fund assets1 increased by $60.54 billion to $6.97 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, February 26, the Investment Company Institute reported today. Among taxable money market funds, government funds2 increased by $52.97 billion and prime funds increased by $5.84 billion. Tax-exempt money market funds increased by $1.72 billion.

Also, link here.

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Outbreak: Congo

Being reported by the WHO over the last couple of days, and I can't make this up:

The WHO said in a statement Thursday that, along with Congo health officials, it was "carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster of illness and community deaths" in the Equateur province, marking the third time this year disease surveillance teams have identified an increase in illness and deaths in the region. 

"The most recent cluster occurred in the Basankusu health zone, where last week 141 additional people fell ill, with no deaths reported," the United Nations' global health agency said. "In the same health zone, 158 cases and 58 deaths were reported in the same health zone (sic) earlier in February. In January, Bolamba health zone reported 12 people who fell ill including 8 deaths." 

The WHO's Africa office said earlier this week that the first outbreak was among several children who ate a bat and then died within 48 hours after experiencing hemorrhagic fever symptoms, similar to those caused by the Ebola or Marburg viruses.["Several": the exact number was unspecified.]

Population of Congo: 

Apparently it is time for USAID to send a $100 million video to Congo on angers of eating bats.

And perhaps while we're at it, a $100 million video to a certain community in Texas on the importance of measles vaccination.

I'm getting so tired of this crap.

Reading the AP story on General Brown's replacement is just as shameful.

By the way, quick! Tell me General Brown's birth date. Not just the year he was born, but the month and day (and the year).

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The Woman I Most Admire This Evening

Link to The New York Times.

Ms Rachel Powell, Venango County, Pennsylvania.