The Constitution is clear: The J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School Gerald Neuman ’80: “Those born on American soil, even to undocumented parents, are citizens of the United States. Neuman, an expert in immigration and nationality law, affirms both history and Supreme Court precedent confirm an intent […]

 – by New Deal democrat Oddly, even though the government shutdown has crippled most reporting, the Census Bureau did update the durable goods report for August today, and it does reveal an essential bifurcation in the state of the economy. First, here are the topline leading indicators: total durable goods orders (blue), core capital goods orders […]

This is not the first article to be presented at Angry Bear discussing healthcare insurance if government subsidies disappear. Besides the ACA, Medicaid, and also Medicare will be impacted by the Tr_mp government. Lets see if Democrats can hold together this time. There is no one to threaten them as are Republican legislators. We shall […]

When we moved to Rhode Island, we chose the location to be near high end healthcare. In addition to being only an hour from Boston, we were close to clinicians affiliated with Brown University, the local Ivy League university. But that affiliation is no guarantee against quacks: “A population-based retrospective study from South Korea is […]

 – by New Deal democrat It’s Thursday, which typically means it’s time for the weekly initial and continuing jobless claims update. As we all know, the Federal government has shut down, because there is no budget for this fiscal year that began yesterday. BUT, I went back and checked, and during the extended government shutdown in […]

Oops my mistake. There is no sanity to student loans lasting a lifetime. Not when every other loan people have, get in trouble with, is forgiven through bankruptcy. It does not matter when or what they do is stupid, miscalculated, abused, spent unnecessarily, etc. The loans are forgiven. The only difference here is a student […]

Explaining why this shutdown is not a normal shutdown. Has there ever been a normal shutdown as caused by Congress? Why this is not a normal government shutdown, Robert Reich The United States government has shut down. But in reality, it has been shut down ever since Trump took office the second time. For over […]

OECD projects global GDP growth to weaken, with US facing steeper decline. Tariffs cited as a leading cause, impacting plastics industry and manufacturing. “OECD Economic Outlook: Plastics Industry Impact,” Plastics Today The plastics industry faces a challenging economic landscape as the latest Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) economic outlook reveals that while global growth proved […]

Until this year, China has been a major consumer of US soybeans. But Trump’s trade war with China has resulted in a shutdown of that major market for American farmers and billions of dollars in lost sales. Trump has promised federal dollars to farmers to compensate for the loss of the Chinese markets. So taxpayers […]

– by New Deal democrat Typically the new month begins with important manufacturing and construction reports; but this morning the construction spending report for August became the first casualty of the government shutdown.  The ISM manufacturing report has been a recognized leading indicator for the past 60+ years, although of diminished importance since the turn of […]