– by New Deal democrat As per usual, there’s no economic news today, the first Monday after the employment report. So let’s dig into some detail about what was naughty and what was nice from Friday’s anemic report. Let me start with the naughty, and in particular the -50,000 job losses (seasonally adjusted) in local education. […]

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From Medpage Today: “Speaking about the order at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder . . .” Uh, no. What’s been rising is the rate of ASD *diagnoses,” due to changes in classification criteria and increased […]

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According to the political data site fifty plus one, Trump currently has a net disapproval of 24 points.  At the same time, the Democrats remain unpopular.  The net disapproval of the Democrats has hovered around 15 points, about the same as the Republicans.  The Democrats lead in the generic ballot, but only by 6 points […]

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Brief review as to what is happening in healthcare since Trump whacked ACA insurance for roughly 3 million citizens initially. More to come for the uninsured as this plays out. Costs did increase at hospitals and other healthcare sites (doctors, clinics, etc.). For the millions voting for Tr__p, I hope this is what you wanted. […]

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Just Information on supply and what is happening in the short term. I suspect if Trump keeps fooling around with the Middle East, we could experience some types of short-term shortages as reported via news. It will then grow bigger than the reality. Conflicting signals from Washington and Tehran keep oil markets on edge as […]

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And in the age of cheap drones, you can’t really defend against it. As we are seeing, it doesn’t take long to deplete any missile defenses you have, and no one has missile defenses covering everything anyway. Maybe most of these attacks won’t amount to much, but sometimes… We are ruled by people who have […]

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CMS finalizes higher Medicare Advantage rates for 2027 in gift to insurers, Healthcare Dive Trump administration finalized significantly higher Medicare Advantage rates for 2027 than it had proposed after a full-court lobbying press from the insurance industry — and despite dogged concerns about overpayments in the privatized Medicare program. On Monday, the CMS locked in an […]

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Weekly Indicators for August 3 – 7 at Seeking Alpha The choice of what to highlight this week was very easy, because it was practically screamed from this following graph: Corporate profits were through the roof in Q2, driven not just by AI-related companies but even more by the tidal wave of windfall profits by […]

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I’m currently auditing an online lecture series by historian Timothy Snyder on Hitler and Stalin. The most recent lecture was on Communism. Snyder recommends that his students read The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. It’s mercifully short and the Kindle version cost 99 cents, so I read it. As I say, it’s short and […]

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