[unable to retrieve full-text content]– by Bill McBride Calculated Risk Newsletter REO: lender Real Estate Owned We will NOT see a surge in housing foreclosures that would significantly impact house prices (as happened following the housing bubble) for two key reasons: 1) mortgage lending has been solid, and 2) most homeowners have substantial equity in their homes. Last week, CoreLogic reported […] The post Q3 Update: Housing Delinquencies, Foreclosures and REO...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I subscribe to The Atlantic and have done so for years. It would accompany me on long trips to Asia where I would fall asleep at one page, wake up later, and start reading where I left off. Spending 13 hours in a plane to Norita requires some type of brain stimulation. And then from […] The post What It Means to Be Old appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Sorry, our system is f’d up and one of us was murdered as a result. We admit the United Health system does not work as well as it should. At United Health, we can sympathize with all of you hit with higher healthcare costs and bad results. We at United Healthcare are “willing to partner […] The post United Health Group and the Healthcare System appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]An analysis of geopolitical dynamics with Prof Michael Hudson & Dr Richard Wolff, particularly focusing on the U.S.'s strategic involvement in the Middle East, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and the broader implications for global power structures, including NATO, BRICS, and the decline of American global dominance. The post The U.S. Strategy of Controlled Anarchy: Syria, Ukraine, and Beyond first appeared on Michael Hudson.

[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...

Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών Αφιέρωμα: «1974-2024 – Οι μεταμορφώσεις του ελληνικού καπιταλισμού» 14-15/12/2024 Η ταραχώδης διαδρομή του σύγχρονου ελληνικού καπιταλισμού Σταύρος Μαυρουδέας Καθηγητής Πολιτικής Οικονομίας Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο Μετά το τέλος του Β΄Π.Π. ο ελληνικός καπιταλισμός ανασυγκροτήθηκε με βάση την θέση του στην αρχιτεκτονική του νέου τότε Δυτικού μπλοκ. Μετά από μία σύντομη διαμάχη τόσο μέσα στους κόλπους της ελληνικής...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Weekly Indicators for December 9 – 13  – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. While the short-term forecast and nowcast have remained relatively constant, the “action” has been in the long leading indicators – some things good, some bad. The biggest thing that happened this week is that the […] The post New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for December 9-13...

14th of December 2024 Til denne uges Fri Tænkning har jeg talt med den britiske økonom og historiker Robert Skidelsky, der siden 1991 har siddet i det britiske parlaments overhus. I de første ti år som konservativ, men siden da har Skidelsky ikke repræsenteret et politisk parti. Han har tidligere været medlem af både Labour og Socialdemokratiet, som han var med til at stifte og forlod, da det i 1988 blev slået sammen med Det Liberale Parti under et nyt navn, Liberaldemokraterne. ...

Economics — a pseudo-analogy with physics I also want to emphasise strongly the point about economics being a moral science. I mentioned before that it deals with introspection and with values. I might have added that it deals with motives, expectations, psychological uncertainties. One has to be constantly on guard against treating the material as constant and homogeneous in the same way that the material of the other sciences, in spite of its complexity,...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Can President Biden cancel student loans? Why not? Newly elected President Trump has every intention to pardon the October 6th insurrectionists. Most of the loans depicted in the graphs have been recast into new loans having the interest rolled into them. It created a misconception of these being new loans instead of older loans. This […] The post Student Loan Debt Forgiveness appeared first on Angry Bear.