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 […]
“Why the Cassidy Hutchinson Investigation Should Make Us Very Uncomfortable,” Civil Discourse I don’t know Cassidy Hutchinson, the former deputy to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who flipped and became a star witness during the January 6 Committee hearings and who is now reportedly under investigation. I don’t have an independent basis for knowing whether […]
The goal for China was always to be a global leader. Nothing has changed. My trips to various Chinese facilities building automotive components for US automotive countries, I could see how their technology was evolving. The United States did help them real such heights by sourcing production to their overseas plants. China could copy the […]
“At Least 88 Big US Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax Last Year,” Common Dreams, Stephen Prager Dozens of America’s most profitable corporations avoided paying any federal income taxes in 2025, according to an analysis out on Tuesday from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. What Companies Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2025? The companies avoiding […]