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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trumps 2017 Tax Break Extension chart and explanation . . . Sources: CBO (for most provisions), *JCT( R&E provision), **CRFB (Interest provision) New estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) put a price tag of nearly $5 trillion on extending all the Trump-GOP tax law, which is mostly scheduled to expire at the end of 2025. That is more […] The post Extending Trumps 2017 Tax Cuts appeared first on Angry Bear.

[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 […] The post Being atypical is “not representative of a type, group, or...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]If it bleeds, it leads. CNN has a piece about Ramon Rivera, who randomly stabbed three people in NYC. He was mentally ill, in and out of Rikers and mental health facilities. He’s like a drunk driver who has a history of alcoholism. “New York City Mayor Eric Adams described Rivera as a homeless man […] The post The economics of mental illness appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Why The Gaetz Defeat Really Matters The first step of defiance is the hardest. Senate Republicans took it. William Kristol and Andrew Egger Earlier this week, we reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2020 dalliance with the “plandemic” conspiracy theory. Turns out that dalliance goes deeper than we previously knew. The social media account Patriot […] The post The Appointments appeared first on Angry Bear.

[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 […] The post Hourly Wage Labor Benefited more, 2020 to 2023 than Salaried appeared first on Angry...

Peak Babies was in 2012. At this moment, we´re back to the level of forty years ago (and the most recent data may well be an overestimate). For the first time in centuries, cohorts entering the global labour market will soon be smaller than the cohorts preceding them. Even when there are significant differences in levels between countries, the years around 1970 were a turning point everywhere. In 1965, the relentless movement towards below-replacement human reproduction started....

[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.

[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 […] The post ACA Market Place Subsidies appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]This piece is recent enough to have some relevance. I suspect, the relevance will change once Trump and his minions take office and in an unusual way. In 2023, the United States led the ranking of the countries with the highest military spending of ~ 916 billion U.S. dollars. This amounted to 3.5 percent of […] The post U.S. Defense Spending appeared first on Angry Bear.

[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 […] The post Efforts to Curb News Media Free Speech appeared first on Angry Bear.