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[unable to retrieve full-text content] – by New Deal democrat Existing home sales have been flat in the general range of 3.85 -4.10 million annualized for two years, and that continued in January, as on a monthly basis sales decreased -4.9% to 40.8 million from an upwardly revised December number of 4.29 million annualized: The slightly better numbers in the […] The post Existing home sales: trends of increasing prices, increasing inventory, and flat sales all continue...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“One point about the Musk firing spree that was barely getting any attention at first is now starting to break through into mainstream media accounts: veterans are hugely overrepresented among federal civil servants, and even more so among probationary employees. They’re getting hit hard by these erratic and needless firings.” So vets are DEI hires? […] The post DOGE hates vets appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]For those of you who may wonder? I am not pirating a Krugman article. I pay for a subscription as well as others which I feature from time to time at Angry Bear. Economist Paul is popular. I like his reads on particular issues, and I know others do also. Angry Bear does have some […] The post Making Manufacturing Great Again appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Donald Trump plans a $200 million anti-immigrant ad campaign in the US and overseas. . . .Apparently we can’t afford to fully fund medical research at CDC or NIH these days, but we can find a few dollars under the sofa cushions to thank President Trump for closing the border.” We can’t afford Medicaid for […] The post Annals of “government efficiency” appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Regarding my commentary on the need for ideology, maybe this will help clarify my position. Ideological Purge: DOGE’s Federal Layoffs Especially Target Agencies Perceived as Liberal Two responses to my discussion questioned what are the policies positions. There were specific issues of concern presented. I was not addressing specific policy at all. That these questions […] The post Democratic Policy Without Ideology is just Random Activity...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Congress is considering proposals that could change Medicaid financing and eligibility. “Some of these proposed changes could cause millions of people to lose access to care under Medicaid. People without coverage often skip necessary care, leading to worse health outcomes. For people in poor health, the results can be dangerous. “Cuts will put a greater […] The post GOP cuts to Medicaid will harm America’s health appeared...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Even I am thinking of a recession as more and more people or Labor are being let go by the government. The layoff has expanded from just the government. Corporations are laying off people also. It is not like there was a huge decrease in business. Maybe companies believe they can be more efficient by […] The post Fixing Economic Inefficiency by Cutting Labor appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]When you start reading this commentary, it consists of a series of purposeful misinformation statements. Some might call them lies. The people making them have nothing else, having a basis to add to this other make stuff up. The system works. Congress does not want to spend the money and fix it. For a small […] The post Another False Social Security Emergency appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Today’s Republican Party stands back and stands by in case we need to deal with the past. Have for years, now. For no good reason, it has aplenty the dumb as dirt, ignorant as a pig, mean and cruel, and corrupt members of Congress. Kentucky’s First Congressional’s best and brightest says it all. Mostly, they […] The post The Republican Party appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]This certainly isn’t pro-life: “The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” […] The post The Trump/Musk Administration shuts down Pregnancy Risk Assessment...