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[unable to retrieve full-text content]I live in Arizona and I will not miss Sinema. “Senate Democrats were livid after Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona.) and Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), two longtime members of their caucus, voted Wednesday (12/11/2024) to block President Biden’s  nominee, Lauren McFerran, to serve another five-year term on the National Labor Relations Board.” The impact of which will allow Trump to place an anti-labor member...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Some history on Senator Joe Manchin III. He has never met a lump of coal he did not like. There is money in the almost black gold. Twenty years of supplying the Grant Town power plant in West Virgina with low-grade coal mixed with rock and clay known as “gob.” And stymieing any interest in […] The post The Legacy of a Retiring Senator appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content] – by New Deal democrat With the update on inflation earlier this week, let’s take a look a real average wages and real aggregate payrolls. Plus there is a significant update to my yellow flag caution on the employment situation. First, nominally nonsupervisory wages rose slightly under 0.3% in November, while consumer prices rose slightly […] The post Good news on real aggregate payrolls, but an additional yellow flag on jobs...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Commentary: Trump’s pick for education secretary shows he understands the assignment, Erika Donalds, The Heritage Foundation There are answers to this author’s commentary. I will wait for another time to discuss student loans and private education in the US at the expense of a public education. Commentary: Trump’s pick for education secretary shows he understands […] The post How is my Hair??? appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Applications are “carefully reviewed” by a legal team to determine eligibility for debt cancellation, yep! What does continuous growing Student Loan Debt look like today? Federal Student Loan Portfolio by Age. The chart below only shows the last 4 years by Quarter. President Joe Biden has been attempting to grant relief to students. This is […] The post Navient Student-loan Borrowers Cancellation Special . . . appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness.” LOL! I’m absolutely confident that Hegseth hasn’t read a word of Marx or Marxist economics. I’m equally […] The post Pete Hegseth knows nothing...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]as Joe Manchin, Sinema Block Biden NLRB Nominee AB: I never had much respect for Joe Manchin. Just another rich guy out of West Virgnia. Perfect article about Joe’s reign in WV since 2010 “What has Joe Manchin done for West Virginia?” The answer to that question is not much unless it benefited him or […] The post ‘Crushing Blow to the Labor Agenda’ appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nearly half of U.S workers will live in states with at least a $15 minimum wage by 2027, Economic Policy Institute In the 2024 election, Alaska and Missouri voters approved ballot measures to increase their state minimum wage to $15 an hour in the coming years. Now 15 states and Washington D.C. either have or […] The post Half of U.S workers Will Live in States with at Least a $15 Minimum Wage by 2027 appeared first on Angry Bear.

from Peter Radford  This is something I need to get off my desktop.  It’s just for fun … Asymmetry is the very beginning and end of an economy.  It’s the bumps that matter.  Explain them and you explain the economy.  After all the very notion of exchange presumes differences between those involved, and difference is just another way off saying asymmetry.  Sweep the bumps away with a broad brush of supposedly superb logic and you eliminate the very object of your study.  That is if your...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Excellent recital on Russia by “Infidel at Infidel753“ Very often, those who understand an empire best are those who are subjugated by its power, or until recently were so.  A slave has a strong incentive to know the master’s whims and cruelties and strengths and weaknesses; he may well suffer greatly if he misjudges those […] The post Putin’s empire imploding appeared first on Angry Bear.