Household Survey Labor Market Recap February 2026. All in all, still a soft report as told by Preston Mui at Enploy America. As he suggests, methodological quirks explain some of the weakness but it only go so far. The Fed will not see this as a reason to cut imminently, but they’ll be on guard. […]
RFK Jr says “Many of us have come to the conclusion that [the] government actually lies to us.” On that, I agree. Our government lied us into the Vietnam war and lied about the ending: Nixon took a deal in 1973 that he could have had in 1969. The Bush Administration lied us into the […]
“As USPS faces a cash crisis, rivals FedEx, UPS spend big on lobbying” – By Joedy McCreary, April 13, 2026 Open Secrets FedEx and UPS spent almost $20 million on lobbying last year. (Photo by 400tamx/Getty Images) FedEx and UPS – two private carriers positioned to capitalize on a weakened U.S. Postal Service – poured […]
In the seventies when gasoline doubled in price from 30-35 cents per gallon to 60 and seventy cents per gallon, people were pretty angry with the Arabs. That was a big increase and vehicles were not terribly efficient. There were pickups. However, there was not so high a percentage of them on the road. Today […]
Prof. Paul Krugman made mention of the Survey of Consumers findings. It gets kind of interesting. Trump tells stories and an expert calls him out. Two different articles. A portion from Prof. Krugman’s latest and the latest from the Surveys of Consumers where Prof. Krugman uses to point out Trump’s erroneous comments. In his latest: […]
I have known Steve Hutkins for years and Angry Bear has presented Steve’s articles at Angry Bear for just as long. In the beginning by my friend Dan Crawford would do so. I picked up the effort shortly afterwards. Steve started to write about the USPS when a local post office in New York’s Hudson […]
One thing I like about the Bangkok Post is you are getting an accurate replay of what is actually happening and said. There is no enhancement or interpretation of the issue or what is happening. Now, if we can only get the Trump administration to admit the attack on Iran was a mistake. It is […]
I have not seen the latest inflation rate since Trump decided to take the nation to war in Iran. Oil jumped in cost and has not really settled back to what it was, Gasoline did similar even though cost to make did not initially rise. For that matter the cost of oil did not increase […]
A couple years back, I attended a town hall hosted by my House representative, Gabe Amo. During the Q&A, a gal who I judged to be in her 20s referred to the current economic situation as “hyperinflation.” That was nonsense, of course. Hyperinflation is defined by prices rising ofer 50% monthly. Historic examples of hyperinflation […]
The stress of being who he is and how he conducts himself to others and the social media may be catching up with him. Cartooning himself as a person being omnipotent and others as characters is not helping his image as the president of the most powerful(?) nation in the world. Rather an interesting commentary […]