There is a constant tenor that people can do better by investing their funds elsewhere other than contributing to Social Security. In the short term that can be true as long as you have the funds to invest all the time and the economy does well. There are no guarantees in private investments and politics […]

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 – by New Deal democrat Our data drought won’t end until next Tuesday. In the meantime, let me follow up on a theme from my analysis of the economic data from last week. To wit: there are several metrics that I have already stated are worth a “recession watch;” namely, housing units under construction (down almost […]

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Until this January, you might have thought that a gift for diplomacy would be high on the list of qualifications for an ambassadorship, even if it’s the US Ambassador to Malaysia. You’d be wrong. “Coverage of his nomination has largely focused on his openly misogynistic content and internet boasts about having “the body of a […]

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It has been a while since Angry Bear has featured Student Loan Justice and Alan Colling on Angry Bear. The issue still remains. A Corporation can seek loan forgiveness and get it. Students were denied access to such bankruptcy for decades before the Covid epidemic. It was too late when Biden sought more student loan […]

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Sen. Josh Hawley says he’ll make sure Medicaid cuts in Trump bill he voted for ‘never take effect’, You Tube while “Trump bill’s health effects won’t be felt until after midterms” as reported by Axios Trumps bill is the opposite of Hawley’s if you believe him. President Trump’s tax and spending bill cuts nearly $1 […]

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You may have heard about the flooding in Texas and North Carolina during the past week. But that’s far from all. There’s a reason it’s called “global” climate change. “The disaster comes during a week in which extreme heat and extreme weather have battered the planet. Parts of northern Spain and southern France are burning […]

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If you have not heard, slipped in while the nation is not looking, your faith leader can now make a political endorsement without fear of the IRS. You know the Christain Right has had this on their to do list for eons. Right there with abortion and getting some of that government funding for their […]

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 – by New Deal democrat We finally have some new data this week – the usual, jobless claims. Initial claims declined -5,000 for the week, while the four week moving average declined 5,750. With the usual one week delay, continuing claims, on the other hand, rose 10,000 to a new 4.5+ year high of 1.965 […]

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I am sure that is going over big. Camp Pendleton, etc. has ICE guarding it? Strengthen its security? That is really strange. There must be something else going on there. I can not believe the Generals in charge are too happy having ICE aboard. “July 9, 2025: Letters from an American” At about 10:30 this […]

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It has been a long two days as the site was attacked by various outside influences. I know how to write with WP and add pics and other things. The foundation of Angry Bear is foreign to me. Asking me to do something on the programing side is risky. I probably could do it if […]

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Trump has flip-flopped on deporting workers in the agriculture and hospitality sectors. But his Ag Secretary has it figured out. “There’s been a lot of noise in the last few days and a lot of questions about where the president stands and his vision for farm labor,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters during a […]

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During the COVID pandemic, the livestock dewormer ivermectin gained notoriety as a treatment for COVID. Of course, there isn’t an atom of evidence that ivermectin is effective against coronavirus infections. But the fact that it was ridiculed by the scientific and medical communities proved, by the logic of anti-vaxxers, that it works. “Currently four states […]

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 – by New Deal democrat During this week’s drought of new economic data, let’s continue taking a look at some important information from last Friday’s employment report. In every report, I break down my analysis first and foremost by looking at the leading indicators contained within the data. This is almost entirely confined to the goods-producing […]

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I read this stuff (yes stuff) and I wonder how you equate this to the average person going to work every day. I can’t. The average salary is far less for people going to work every day of the week. Reading about Bill Gates giving away $millions just does not register with people. Referencing this […]

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TR__p show he has no regard for his supporters . . . Since 2015 and across 170 disasters, the median average assistance amount per approved application from FEMA’s IHP is $4,995. On average, approximately 39 percent of applicants are determined to be eligible for Individuals and Households Program (IHP). FEMA programs can be a lifeline. […]

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SUMMARY: Barack Obama and George W. Bush have criticized the closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), as a study warned it could result in “a staggering number” of avoidable deaths—more than 14 million over five years. The former U.S. presidents made rare public criticisms of the Trump administration as they took part […]

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ICE’s new funding level is larger than the combined budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, Bureau of Prisons, and U.S. Marshals Service. Who are these people? “ICE was generally known as a place made up of people who couldn’t get jobs at the more established and reputable federal policing agencies — so, FBI, U.S. Marshals, […]

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For eight years, we had rooftop solar. We wouldn’t have done it except that because of state law, Ameren paid half the cost. We also got a 30% tax rebate on the difference. Since we moved, there are too many trees around our house for rooftop solar, but there are more solar panels in our […]

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I do not trust anything that appears on Fox News or comes out of our President’s mouth. I make it a point to stay off of social media and only view You Tube for classic music performances and some comedy so those are not sources of misinformation. While newspaper articles will contain all sorts of […]

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Two important danger signals in the June employment report  – by New Deal democrat This is Ben Casellman, Chief Economic Correspondent for The NY Times’s take on last Friday’s employment report: I beg to differ. As I wrote Friday, underneath the headlines, this was a barely positive report – with some significant negatives. Let me […]

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