The Angry Bear

I pay to be able to talk to Merrill. What is fun is when Andrew Sprung shows up. And I am recognized for the words I write on healthcare. Been in enough hospitals to be treated for a blood disorder, I know the routine. The first hospital put me on death row. A woman stopped by and asked me if I knew where I was in the hospital. Of course, I said no. She told me, I was on death-row and they did not expect me to live. My platelets were very low and...

Remember the wildly successful Trump University? Me neither.But elect Donald, and he promises to build on that success by stealing the endowments of major universities to create a national diploma mill.Click the link.Trump University 2.0

Charles Gaba was to become known to me because of Maggie Mahar who was featured at Angry Bear in the past. Another resident of Michigan like I was, one county and a few communities away from my own home. Thoroughly ACA knowledgeable and ACA competent. You can trust his words. I featured this commentary by Charles because it has some important dates and information. Charles is an excellent source of information on the ACA. Read him . . . The...

Repeat home sale prices may be easing back into their pre-pandemic YoY range  – by New Deal democrat As I forewarned last week, this holiday week is very light on data, so don’t be surprised by me taking some time off. We did get November home prices for repeat sales this morning from both Case Shiller and the FHFA, so let me just pass on a brief note. Seasonally adjusted prices per the FHFA rose 0.2% in November. For the last half year,...

A story that leaves me stumped. What does one do when a defect is revealed in a development that is still building out to completion? The development is controlled entirely by Builders and a Declarant. The community residents are blocked from any access to an AZ Developer run HOA. And daily management is done by the builder hired HOA. Two years have passed for this community located on state highway 347. Instead, the HOA-hired management...

I am not going to put the entire detail of the Economic Impact under both presidents up at Angry Bear. It is just too much. You can read it at the link. Snippets of information are below. MSN does not provide the charts which are in the WaPo’s article. If you have a subscription, you may want to look at it. What I have here is much of the wording of the article along with some my thoughts. “Biden’s economy vs. Trump’s, in 12 charts” (msn.com) Abha...

I have used SWI SwissInfo.ch for information a number of times in the past having gained approval to do so from time to time. Management had changed and I had to ask for permission to use their articles again. They were gracious enough to allow Angry Bear the opportunity to rebroadcast their reports in the United States. For that privilege, I am grateful. Who’s to blame for the demise of Credit Suisse? SWI swissinfo.ch, Keystone / Martin Ruetschi...

It has been a tough year for Angry Bear. We lost Dan Crawford to cancer. Dan was Angry Bear’s owner and my friend. From October of last year, I was talking to him on and off when he could talk. I would post his selected commentaries till he could no longer pick something he would want to present. The hopes of a recovery disappeared late last year. In his last week alive, his wife told me Dan hoped we could keep Angry Bear a going blog. There are...

Kevin Quin at Econospeak brought this to our attention. In Memoriam: Robert Solow      One of the tallest trees in the economic forest has fallen:  Bob Solow has died at the age of 99. The modern study of economic growth could not have happened without his work, of course.  He was also one of the funniest economists I know. For years I have had the following quote from him on my office door,  which hilariously sums up his attitude to Lucas...

Each day, I get an array of emails in my In-Box offering up articles, what they think can be interesting reads, or junk. Some are hawking subscriptions too. I like to subscribe to news letters and magazines. The problem being, I never get a chance to finish reading them all. SCOTUS Billionaire Gifts to Thomas: Generosity or Taxable Income? levernews.com, Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton, Katya Swank. If billionaires’ largesse was designed to...