Daily Reckoning’s Jason Farrell lists Angry Bear in his top fifty… The new year is off to an interesting start. With inflation dove Janet Yellen helming the Fed, another recession possibly imminent and Wall Street still making a killing, it’s as good a time as any to review some of the best sources of independent […]

Angry Bear will be posting writing by writers less well known and will usually be twenty and thirty years old as well.  Here is another one: by David Parkman The End of an Era: Ben Bernanke Passes the Torch After an eight-year term, Ben Bernanke arrives at Brookings Institution for his first day of work […]

by Robert Waldmann (Dan here…lightly edited for readability and Robert’s sense of humor)) House effects Noah Smith and Chris House are engaged in a stimulating blogospheric discussion. I am tempted to engage House in debate. I am not at all tempted to actually read his posts. Caveat Lector I will here dispute the part of […]

Elizabeth Warren proposes simple banking needs through the Post Office: According to a report put out this week by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Postal Service, about 68 million Americans — more than a quarter of all households — have no checking or savings account and are underserved by the […]

by Joseph P. Joyce (is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs ) Desperate Times, Desperate Measures The selloff of emerging market currencies and equities continued last week. A Bank of America report noted that investors withdrew $6.4 billion last week from emerging market stock funds, while bond investors […]

by Linda Beale Time to end redistribution upwards: minimum wage increases would boost economy and lift all boats. No matter how much the business lobby complains about the “business costs” of increasing the minimum wage, legislators should look past that self-serving ideology and look at reality.  Workers have contributed to increased productivity but received a […]

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Question:  How does fraud in the food stamps program compare with fraud in the crop insurance program?  

by Joseph P. Joyce (is a Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs ) Guest post:  Shake, Rattle and Roll The selloff last week of the currencies of many emerging market countries while stock prices also declined can be seen as the result of “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns.” How […]