[unable to retrieve full-text content]Is there a self-enforcing budget deal with Trump? In yesterday’s column, Yglesias makes a critical observation:  “there is genuinely no point in negotiating a bipartisan appropriation bill if the president is going to ignore its terms. . . . the entire premise of a bipartisan spending deal is precisely that money will be spent on […] The post Is there a self-enforcing budget deal with Trump? appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump administration drafting executive order to initiate Department of Education’s elimination | CNN Politics The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order that would kick off the process of eliminating the Department of Education, the latest move by President Donald Trump to swiftly carry out his campaign promises, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN. The […] The post Eliminating the Department of...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Tariffs will drive prices higher on Rx drugs, our #1 import, GoozNews I was stunned this morning when I looked at the data. Drugs — the legal kind — are the U.S.’s single largest import category. The U.S. in the first 11 months of 2024 imported over $222 billion in pharmaceutical products, which includes both […] The post Tariffs Driving Drug Prices Higher appeared first on Angry Bear.

Podcasts Why should the left care about central banks? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Dominic Caddick and Sebastian Mang 13 February 2025 The price of your food shop rocketed because of inflation and now your mortgage is going up hundreds of pounds because the Bank of England decided to increase...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Sometimes, even a seasonally-adjusted picture from FRED is worth a thousand words. In three years–three good economic years–the number of Software Developer jobs listed on Indeed has fallen just over 70%. If there were ten jobs listed three years ago, there are almost three listed now. Note that most of the drop was before all […] The post Just Learn to Code appeared first on Angry Bear.

Few people‘s bad ideas have gone so far as Milton Friedman‘s. 

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]““Contrary to the hysteria, redirecting billions of allocated NIH spending away from administrative bloat means there will be more money and resources available for legitimate scientific research, not less,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said.” Here’s how you know they’re lying. If they were telling the truth, there would be no net reduction to the […] The post They’re lying appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Democrats need to win elections, full stop.  As I wrote here, this may mean “heightening the contradictions”.  Michael Dorf: If there is a path back to sanity, then, it probably must travel through a change of heart by the people who support Trump’s assault on democracy. They will not likely be won over by appeals […] The post Some links on the current constitutional predicament appeared first on Angry Bear.