This post can be found on Steve Hutkins’ Save The Post Office. He is featuring a commentary taken from the Democracy Docket as linked to in the first paragraph. As is typical, this commentary is all about Pres. Donald Tr__p who is trying his hardest to block the upcoming election or impede it in whatever […]
– The one-handed economist (site) Daniel Zetland . . . a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam. I read this 2007 book by John Darwin months ago, but only got ’round to writing up my thoughts here now. That shouldn’t matter about 600 years of history that ended in 2000, but it does matter for […]
– by New Deal democrat Let’s take a look at retail sales, especially real retail sales, one of my favorite economic indicators, which was updated for June this morning. This is because consumer spending is about 70% of the economy, and also because historically consumption leads employment. Let’s see what happened during a month that gas […]
Trump’s new policy drew attention to remarks Rubio made just weeks earlier, while on a visit June 23. A visit he paid to the United Arab Emirates. It was then he slammed the prospect of transit fees in the waterway in a caution to Iran. June 23, 2026: Marco Rubio’s warning ‘no country’ can charge […]
It appears (as stated) New Deal is either on the road, taking a train, or flying somewhere to relax, have some fun, or gathering information for a new report. I hope for the earlier two latter as NDd is typically busy reporting on the economy in his fashion. So as a surprise or treat, NDd […]
Bit of Robert Reich running the numbers on Crypto Memecoin for 2025. Trump came out ahead and everyone else lost. Care to buy another bottle of “Doctor Good” from Tr__p. It is kind of hard to understand how a president of future president could hoodwink his constituents. But he did. “‘Once a crypto skeptic, Mr. […]
4 years and counting since the release of AI upon the public. The author (Paul) touches upon this initially than goes forward discussing things other than technology change. A welcome relief? I am not sure. The reader has to determine such. “AI’s ubiquity, its economic impact remains unclear. We don’t yet know what it will […]
Taken from today’s SCOTUS Blog. The president thinks he is special and is entitled to second hearing by SCOTUS on the same issues.. President Jjackass is again attempting to have birthright overridden in SCOTUS; Trump wants court to rehear birthright citizenship case,” SCOTUSblog. “President Donald Trump announced that he would seek ‘to get the Supreme […]
I read Michael Klein’s (executive editor of EconoFact) conversation with Roger Lowenstein on the role of government in the economy. It is not terribly long. Maybe 10-15 minutes in listening and a bit longer in reading for me. I like to read as I dwell on what I read. Then I will go back and […]
I am probably the only one on Angry Bear who has spent time in Cuba at GITMO Naval Base and with 8th Marines. Talked to a few Cubans there. At 21, there was not too much I could say to them over a beer. Just listen to what they had to say. Long time ago. […]