[unable to retrieve full-text content]New York City has had a long history of problematic mayors, and the corrupt current mayor, Eric Adams, is honoring that tradition. Now, heaping corruption on corruption, the corrupt current President, Donald Trump, is trying to exploit the corrupt Justice Department to do a corrupt deal with Adams: “ . . . President Trump had […] The post Trump takes NYC hostage appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »Spain as the best economy in the world for 2024
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Not an article by The Economist. Indeed, an article reporting on The Economist piece as written by La Vanguardia. A positive take on The Economist article. As reported, Spain achieved the best economic results of any nation with the exception of GDP per capita over the last year. Not everyone is in agreement. But all […] The post Spain as the best economy in the world for 2024 appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »Jail and Prison Populations Decreased Since 2019
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Vera Institutes report on Jails and Prisons is accurate. I am basing this comment on what I know about them in the past. Obviously, things have changed over time. It is good to see a decrease. Perhaps they have found better ways to handle minor issues other than the county jail or state prisons. […] The post Jail and Prison Populations Decreased Since 2019 appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »Population Growth Outcomes
[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 […] The post Population Growth Outcomes appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »Undocumented labor: solutions, not scapegoating
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump has promised to deport >10 million undocumented people living in the US. He justifies this by saying they are dangerous criminals. In fact, immigrants commit crimes at a *lower* rate than US citizens. He has announced his intention to deploy US troops in US streets to capture and detain people who are claimed to […] The post Undocumented labor: solutions, not scapegoating appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »Immigration to the United States and Its Impact to the Federal Budget
[unable to retrieve full-text content]There has been much noise about immigration to the United States. Enough so as to have an impact on the last US election with people selecting an isolationist to be the president. At this time, the new president is discussing removing them from the United States. There are laws in place allowing immigrants to stay […] The post Immigration to the United States and Its Impact to the Federal Budget appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »Just a Bunch of Charts Depicting Immigrants Coming to America
[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 […] The post Just a Bunch of Charts Depicting Immigrants Coming to America appeared first on...
Read More »Incomes, immigration, and the election
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Tuesday, November 12, 2024 – by New Deal democrat On Friday I wrote about how the Fed likely contributed, via hurting aspiring homeowners, to the outcome of the Election last week. Today I want to take a look at another issue – wages. As it happens, while I was writing this Paul Krugman put up […] The post Incomes, immigration, and the election appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »The economics of deportation
[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Trump administration is threatening to deport >10 million people. These are people who, regardless of their immigration status, are contributing to the economy and jobs by purchasing goods and service (“job creators”) and contributing to social programs like Social Security and Medicare. Indeed, if they are undocumented, they will never see benefits to the […] The post The economics of deportation appeared first on Angry Bear.
Read More »The second coming of Trumponomics
Donald Trump will be the first president since Grover Cleveland, also a New Yorker, to have two non consecutive terms in the presidency. The reasons for this are beyond my abilities to analyze, but it is clear that he did get the votes of people in the lower levels of income, that had voted for Biden in 2020 (but not for Hillary in 2016) and went decisively for Trump. One may say that the populist vote in favor of tariffs, often associated with working class interests, was part of the...
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