Back in 1947, the standard Australian working week was reduced from 44 hours to 40. In 1983, 36 years later, the working week was reduced to 38 hours. That was more than 40 years ago, and there has been a lot of technological progress since then. It makes sense to take some of the benefits of that progress in the form of shorter working hours. I’ve been an active supporter of the movement for a Four-Day week, but progress has been slow. Some of the moment has been dissipated by the...

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Trump says global warming is a scam and a hoax. He promises to cut federal funding for green programs and to ramp up fracking and drilling. He can certainly do the former, but business controls drilling and fracking, and the price of oil is dictated by international supply and demand, not the whims of the […] The post Investing in the hoax market appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I do not have the complete 2024 election pattern yet. Once I do, I will repost this with complete numbers and display a pattern. One thing which is apparent. Large segments of registered voters do not vote in Presidential Elections even if eligible. Maybe it is time to have laws governing voting practices. United States […] The post Last Four Presidential Elections Has been Done by Less Than Two-Thirds of Eligible Voters appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Just some economic analysis about good economic growth in the month of November 2024. Something the public seemed to have missed along the way. 2023 and 2024 appears to have had good growth even with high Fed rates. See chart below. Commerce Data Show Strong Economic Gains Due to Americans Making and Spending More November […] The post Early Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Numerics for November 2024 appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]US Citizens awaken to their new world. Prof. Heather Cox Richardson at “Letters from an American” has a good take on what is taking place three days after the 2024 Election. She states people are beginning to realize what will take place once a Trump presidency and a mostly Republican Congress begins to implement the […] The post The Aftermath of the 2024 Election appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Posted on behalf of the author, RC Weakley: At this point hysteresis is all that is holding the US dollar as the global reserve currency. That has been the case since Nixon. What we have done since then has only dug us into a deeper hole when events finally happen that will throw the dirt […] The post The future of the US dollar appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content] – by New Deal democrat This is not a formal post about Tuesday’s election. But with the benefit of “revealed preference” a/k/a 20/20 hindsight, it’s pretty clear that the Fed rate hikes were an important part of why Kamala Harris and the Democrats failed. Because we may or may not be experiencing a “soft landing” […] The post How the Fed helped Doom the Democrats appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]In 2020, I enrolled in the Moderna clinical trial of their mRNA vaccine. I got the first jab in August 2020, and it turns out I was in the vaccine arm of the trial, not the placebo arm. I’ve now had seven vaccinations, as the vaccine has been updated. I contracted COVID once. Of course, […] The post Idaho public health to Idahoans: suffer and die appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Three days after the election Voters for Trump are finding out what they voted for and how it impacts them. November 8, 2024 – by Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American Social media has been flooded today with stories of Trump voters who are shocked to learn that tariffs will raise consumer prices as […] The post Shocked, Voters for Trump are Shocked, Shocked After Voting Against Their Own Self Interests appeared first on Angry Bear.