[unable to retrieve full-text content]There’s no question that SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to humans. Whether that jump was direct or indirect and whether it occurred in a lab or in the Wuhan wet market is unknown. The Chinese government has been less than completely forthcoming about the COVID 19 epidemiology. There’s no question that bird flu can jump from […] The post Will the next Wuhan be in the US? appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]February 15, 2025 – by Prof. Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American After World War II, the vast majority of Americans (Democrats and Republicans alike) agreed that the federal government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. But not everyone was on board. Some big businessmen […] The post federal government should regulate business appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Perfect Storm in Home Insurance | Econofact The Issue: The Los Angeles fires, perhaps the costliest weather-related event in U.S. history, started just a few months after Hurricane Helene which ranked among the top 10 costliest hurricanes to batter the United States. And while hurricanes and wildfires command the most attention, severe convective storms (those traditional hailstorms […] The post Homeowner Insurance Catastrophe...

 This working paper integrates the credit money approach (associated with Post Keynesian endogenous money theory) with the state money approach (associated with Modern Money Theory) by drawing on Wray’s 1990 book (Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies: The Endogenous Money Approach, Edward Elgar), his 1998 book (Understanding Modern Money: the Key to Full Employment and Price Stability, Edward Elgar), and his 2004 edited book (Credit and State Theories of Money: The Contributions of A....

Today (February 13, 2025), MMTed releases Episode 11 in the Second Season of our Manga series – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money. Have a bit of fun with it while learning Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and circulate it to those who you think will benefit....William Mitchell — Modern Monetary TheoryEpisode 11 (S2) of the Smith Family Manga is now available – intergenerational tensions arise within the Smith householdBill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the...

from Dean Baker The news has been filled with stories in recent days about Republicans desperately hunting for $2.0-$2.5 trillion (2-3 percent of the budget) in budget cuts over the next decade to cover the cost of extending tax cuts to the rich. While Elon Musk and his DOGE team have been screaming about corruption all through the government, they actually have found little that can be helpful here. They appear to have found virtually nothing by way of actual corruption. Most of what...

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]I grew up in the South. While there were no snake handlers in my town, there were fundamentalists in the area who practiced snake handling. I see no significant difference between those snake handlers in East Tennessee and folks in West Texas who refuse to vaccinate their kids for preventable diseases. Both are tempting God, […] The post Measles and Christian heresy appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I did not know Greta Thunberg had $billions and owned companies that our present VP alludes to in his statement. Greta has not been standing next to the German Chancellor the same as Musk does in the Oval Office and next to the President. This while his young son plays there and picks his nose. […] The post As If There is a Comparison? appeared first on Angry Bear.

What is wrong with game theory Back in 1991, when yours truly earned his first PhD​ with a dissertation on decision making and rationality in social choice theory and game theory, I concluded that “repeatedly it seems as though mathematical tractability and elegance — rather than realism and relevance — have been the most applied guidelines for the behavioural assumptions being made. On a political and social level, ​it is doubtful if the methodological...