As Biden’s presidency winds down, I have tried to collect my thoughts on his presidency, on what went right and (mostly) what went wrong, and why. I want to confess up front that I do not follow “inside the White House” reporting very closely (I have not read any books on the Biden White House, […]
Producer prices join the parade of yellow flags – by New Deal democrat I generally don’t pay too much attention to producer prices, but there are a couple of exceptions. One exception is that sometimes producer prices lead consumer prices by a number of months. That hasn’t been the case recently. But the other exception […]
The Question? How Much Does College Really Cost? – by Phillip Levine EconoFact The Issue: Media coverage of the skyrocketing cost of college is pervasive. Sticker prices approaching $100,000 are jarring for anyone, but particularly for those with limited financial resources. And the sticker shock is not limited to the most selective private universities. Since the mid 90s, sticker […]
Today the Department of Labor released the final jobs report of Joe Biden’s presidency. The nation added 256,000 new jobs in December, a number significantly higher than economists expected. That brings the total number of jobs created under Biden to 16.6 million and makes Biden’s the only administration in history to have created jobs every […]
An archetypal first world problem is that we sites have (all?) decided to add two factor authentication (as the earlier first world problem of requiring irritating passwords with capital letters and special! symbols doesn’t work well enough anymore). This didn’t use to be a problem when they offered to send the 6-digit one time code […]
– by New Deal democrat My theme for the past several years as to employment has been “deceleration,” as in a gradual cooldown from white hot to red hot to hot to warm. But at some point past “warm,” we get to lukewarm, and then cool, and then chilly. In other words, if it continues […]
This report is pretty self-explanatory. I will say it anyway. The excess paid to MA plans over and above what is sent by Medicare is enough to wipe out Traditional Medicare Part B premiums. The sum of overpayment was anywhere from $88 billion to $140 billion as suggested on page 2 in the Introduction of […]
This is probably one of those boring commentaries which does not have many exciting issues which catch an Angry Bear reader’s eye. Yes and no to the premise. Just a question though: How is it, the richest nation in the world having one $300+ billionaire and many more billionaires also has so many homeless people […]
Jobless claims still rocked by seasonality; native born unemployment rate of under 4% forecast – by New Deal democrat Due to today’ official Day of Mourning for the late President Jimmy Carter, initial and continuing claims were released yesterday, but since I didn’t cover it then, let’s catch up now on the normal day. It […]
Last year genetically modified mosquitoes were released in Djibouti. The technology is new and the biology is interesting, but I am most interested in the politics. I am late to this story, since it was reported months ago. They released male Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes which bear a female lethal gene — they mated with females […]