[unable to retrieve full-text content]Today, I chose to put up a few stories about Thanksgiving Days in the past. This instead of the usual commentaries we would write at Angry Bear. I believe they are good reads. I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving Day. There is much to enjoy with family and friends. I spent time out of country […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]– by Annie Lowrey The Atlantic, November 20, 2018 A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy . . . YELLVILLE, Ark.—It is October in the Ozarks. The grass has dried out and the trees have bronzed and browned. Deer lie glaze-eyed in the back of camouflaged pickup trucks. High-school football helmets crack every […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Consumer Price Index as taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I have done “nothing” to alter this report. This was not a bad report. People are reacting to past issues with pricing and costs. Unless Trump is bluffing with his tariff’s threats, I would expect some major increases in prices and costs as countries […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]I missed this piece from May of this year. Been too busy trying to maintain a blog rather than write or find excellent articles to present at Angry Bear. I apologize for the later. Me writing? you just have to live with it for now till more authors become a regular occurrence here. This piece […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Angry Bears I will attempt to have something up to read this Thursday (Thanksgiving). I believe Joel will be on and off also. He has not put in for vacation yet. But then we do not pay for holidays! 🙂 I am also traveling on the 3rd of December to Chicago. My time in Chicago […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Brief commentary by Dr. Kahn who is in the thick of the discussion on Medicare Advantage Costs. Health Justice Monitor, Medicare Advantage Overpayment >$100 Billion, Jim (James G.) Kahn, MD, MPH Summary: Physicians for a National Health Program released a valuable summary of Medicare Advantage overpayments. The scope and scale is breathtaking: $100 billion annual payoff […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]November 25, 2024 By Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American Today, President Joe Biden laid out very clearly the argument behind the economic policies his administration has put into place. He writes . . . “When I took office, the pandemic was raging and the economy was reeling. From Day One, I was determined […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Special counsel Jack Smith moves to drop both federal criminal cases against Trump, POLITICO U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan quickly granted the motion to dismiss Trump’s Washington D.C. case, in which he was charged with conspiring to subvert the 2020 election. A similar motion in the Florida case, in which Trump was charged with hoarding […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales: September 2024, Census.Gov Friday, November 15, 2024 Sales The combined value of distributive trade sales and manufacturers’ shipments for September is adjusted for seasonal and trading day differences but not for price changes. It was estimated at $1,881.2 billion, up 0.3 percent (±0.2 percent) from August 2024 and was […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]I believe it is more than just GM sticking it to Labor. Increasing food prices. Each major automotive company laid off thousands. Some examples of sticking to the population. Eggs in particular saw an increase. Packaging was made smaller. Some examples: – Fritos Scoops: “Party Size” bags used to be 18 ounces, but are now 15.5 […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Dean Baker: “Story telling attracts attention and sells newspapers.” I was reading at another site which was making the argument of Medicare Advantage plans being less costly than Traditional Medicare. It cites a truism that Medicare Advantage offers Part D and Supplemental in its package while Traditional Medicare does not. That is true. However, Medicare […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]An interesting phenomenon occurred from 2020 – 2023. Hourly wage labor experienced increasing wages during the pandemic. A recent NBER report by David Autor, Arindrajit Dube, and Annie McGrew susply the data creating a foundation for the Labor v Salary words. To display I provided an additional graph besides the one shown by The Bulwark’s […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]In 2006 Joel Garreau wrote “300 Million and Counting” in the Smithsonian. It was then we were at a replacement rate of 2.01. The nation was barely replacing itself.  November 20, 1967, the population of the United States passed 200 million. It had taken ~29 years to add 100 million more people to the US […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]A typical serving of beef could eat up an entire day’s carbon budget. Maybe it is time to start thinking about other sources of protein and smaller cuts of meat. “Beef consumption is a global problem and meatwashing is making it worse” – presented by Lloyd Alter Carbon Upfront Jonathan Foley of Project Drawdown looks […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]I believe this to be self-explanatory. President Biden lowered premiums and expanded eligibility for ACA Healthcare. The new president never cared for the ACA and will do whatever he can to cause it to fail. One sure path is to make it expensive so people drop out. Read on . . . When the ACA […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Interesting piece by Kareem. I guess it is not to be taken as unusual for Pres Trump to come out and sue the news media. He is striking back at his antagonists and evening up the score with them. Whether he wins or not is not a concern. He would like to win but if […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content] – by New Deal democrat This week’s jobless claims reflect a little more complex scenario than usual, because the hurricane effects have disappeared from initial claims and their four week average, but likely are affecting continued claims, and are also likely to have a negative impact for the unemployment rate in the next jobs report. […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]I have written about and posted on Student Loan debt forever and usually about Alan Collinge. This is never ending debt where the interest can be greater than the costs over the years of payback. That is, if it is ever paid back. In this particular commentary, it discusses a Masters in filmography or movie […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]– by Joyce James Civil Discourse  I’m not certain it’s possible to understand what happened in the 2024 election this close to it, beyond the undeniable outcome: Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. For two weeks now, people have been trying to assemble the pieces of how we got here, […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Kenneth Ackerman commenting on his experience in May 1970 in Washington DC. While he was there, I was out -of – country during that time period. When I returned stateside and assigned to 10th Marines, we were trained in riot control. JIC the students and protesters became too rowdy. We were never called out which […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The U.S. benefits from immigration but policy reforms needed to maximize gains: Recommendations and a review of key issues to ensure fair wages and labor standards for all workers, Economic Policy Institute – by Daniel Costa, Josh Bivens, Ben Zipperer, and Monique Morrissey Migrants and immigrants who resided in the United States in 2022 accounted […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]This is our new security system on Angry Bear. You will probably see it when you log into Angry Bear. If it asks you if you are human when you log in, answer “yes.” It is just part of the entry and not a scam.
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Inflation was caused by Wall Street and companies rent-taking by increasing prices because they could do so by manipulating the supply chain. I started working is Supply Chain in the seventies for a small company by the name of Baxter Travenol. It was smaller then. It was in the old Walgreen’s building before it moved […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]It is probably too soon to demand people to buy electric vehicles. Domestically, the technology is still evolving. Battery driven vehicles are still questionable although some of our Angry Bear commenters and writers have one. June 2024, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares in a written statement declared: The Gov: “Once again, […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]I am dusting off an old commentary (A Woman’s Right to Safe Healthcare Outcomes) from 2019 after reading about a young woman who died after visiting three different emergency rooms. Everyone delayed. Everyone thought of their liability. And every one watched her slowly die as they made their decision. Healthcare for women and maternal mortality is an […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]“proposed tariffs on Mexican exports, particularly in the automotive sector, have prompted Mexico to consider reciprocal measures. Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard indicated that Mexico might impose its own tariffs on U.S. imports if such U.S. tariffs are enacted, emphasizing the potential economic repercussions for both nations.” Mexican president might be changing view on US as […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]A review of the tax break impacts from 1981 till 2020 and who benefited the most from them. I found it to be interesting and detailed in what was occurring during this time period. As you read it and review the graphs, I believe you will find the majority of the tax breaks were targeting […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]by Bill McBride Calculated Risk From housing economist Tom Lawler: Based on publicly-available local realtor/MLS reports released across the country through today . . . I project that existing home sales as estimated by the National Association of Realtors ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.97 million in October, up 3.4% from September’s […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The commentary was initially written at EconoFact by Mark Shepard. I took liberties with this commentary to emphasize the many points the author presents and to make it an easier read. I also added an introduction and some history on the ACA. There is much here to absorb. I felt breaking the commentary out further […]
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]It has been a bit since I have said anything about the Opioid epidemic. Such was brought on by companies and distributors (more like PBMs) claiming it was harmless and non-addicting. I do want to catch up and see how the Sacklers made out. Whether the Gov finally put the screws to them or did […]
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