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[unable to retrieve full-text content]There is a story here somewhere, I have to look at it a bit closer in what Medicare is doing. As you can see expenditures in the US are double or more than what occurs in other countries. Yet, the US life expectancy is less than other countries. It appears there is a cut which […] The post Medicare Doctor Payment System is Not Keeping Up with Inflation appeared first on Angry Bear.

The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative (BCBPI) will use national currencies, instead of the US dollar. Russia’s finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.Geopolitical EconomyBRICS plans ‘multi-currency system’ to challenge US dollar dominance: Understanding Russia’s proposalBen Norton

IntroductionIn the first part of this year’s BRICS series, we described the geopolitical environment in which BRICS is currently operating and trying to evolve. This environment has changed for the worse since the last BRICS summit in South Africa last August.The consequence is that BRICS cannot develop freely, because on the one hand, the decisions – especially those of the USA – regarding the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, the situation in the financial markets and finally the...

Josh Marshall at TPM gives the details on an Elon Musk-funded PAC targeting Jewish and Arab communities. Elon Musk’s Fake Sites and Fake Texts Impersonating the Harris Campaign I can see this type of targeting playing well in the city of Detroit where there are large communities of both Jewish and Arab communities . . . Dearborn being one such community. One action is to target a community with your support for a candidate. Another and a...

And Arizona has its share of nut-jobs too. One representative is more interested in controlling the lives of others. In particular those being the lives of women. And yes, one representative is making the right of women to control their lives an issue in Arizona. This is much like those creatures of control found in other states too. Arizona is a state where others can decide for you what the better course in life is to take. You have to wonder...

Living in Arizona has been a different experience than what we experienced in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Avoiding Winter is pleasant, but the heat of the summer keeps you inside. I believe it was a record year for the number of days above a certain temperature. Winter is shorter in comparison. Would I do the move knowing what I know now. The temperature is a factor we did not take much into consideration. A record year for temperatures being...

.[embedded content] Är på besök i Stockholm några dagar. Och precis som Kent återvänder en ‘kyrkogårdsromantiker’ som yours truly självklart till Lewerentz och Asplunds arkitektoniska mästerverk — Skogskyrkogården.

Richard Murphy is the guest this week and is a chartered accountant and a political economist. Rachel Reeves is planning £3bn welfare cuts in Budget, so we will drill down into that and much more this week! https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/ https://businessfilmbooth.podia.com/

We’re in another round of concern about the “death of the book”, and, in particular, the claimed inability or unwillingness of young people to read full-length books. I’m not going to push too far on the argument that this complaint is ancient, but I can’t resist mentioning the response of my younger brother, who, when asked if he wanted a book for Christmas, answered “thanks, but I already have one”). That was around 50 years ago, and he went on to a very successful legal career....