“Education is meant to be the great equalizer for our children, not a great investment opportunity for the billionaires ransacking our federal government.” Getting rid of the Department of Education will take an act of Congress. Republicans are more than willing to approve all of Trump’s requests and nominations. This appointment is an interesting pick. […]

Trump administration drafting executive order to initiate Department of Education’s elimination | CNN Politics The Trump administration has begun drafting an executive order that would kick off the process of eliminating the Department of Education, the latest move by President Donald Trump to swiftly carry out his campaign promises, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN. The […]

Sometimes, even a seasonally-adjusted picture from FRED is worth a thousand words. In three years–three good economic years–the number of Software Developer jobs listed on Indeed has fallen just over 70%. If there were ten jobs listed three years ago, there are almost three listed now. Note that most of the drop was before all […]

I recently reread Hayek’s most famous paper, The Use of Knowledge in Society, written in 1945.  I hadn’t read it in many years.   Page for page, TUKS is perhaps the most insightful economics paper ever written.  Every undergraduate economics major should read it.  I am not sure how many other papers written before 1960 […]

Since this is off topic for AngryBear I will post future CAR posts at my personal blog Robert’s Stochastic thoughts This post is a restatement and extension of the first post in the series CAR Crazy which discusses ex vivo treatment of killer T-cells with Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) designed to cause the T-cells to […]

Below I discussed Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells and also pulled up a reply by Linda Eissenberg which taught me a lot. CAR T-cells are killer T-cells genetically modified to kill cells to which an antibody binds. I promised crazier ideas in later posts. One was the idea of further genetic modification of CAR T-cells. […]

At its beginning, no one knew that they were in the Industrial Age; let alone how to deal with it. It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before. Later on, great minds like Marx, Keynes, Galbraith, et al would give ‘how to deal with it’ their best shot. Since, say, 1970, we have been […]

Here CAR stands for Chimeric Antigen Receptor and refers to CAR killer T-cells which are cells genetically engineered to kill other cells which display something detectable (and antigen) typical of a type of cancer. The crazy refers to my dream of improving CARs using the knowlsege from my long ago BA in biology. The amazing […]

This is not a recent issue. It is one that has been on the horizon and actually arrived a few years back. A greater impact is starting to be felt now. In 2023 the 181-year-old Iowa Wesleyan University closed due to lack of enrollment and the resulting shortage of funds. As the population decreases in […]

“When it comes to our knowledge and opinions, we tend to stick to our guns. Psychologists call this seizing and freezing.“ Book Review: “Think Again” – by The one-handed economist I got this 2021 book after hearing an interview with its author, Adam Grant, who sounded really sensible . . . for a psychologist (I kid!). Anyways, […]