– by New Deal democrat On a normal first Friday of the month, I would be crunching the official jobs report data to try to provide not just a coincident report on the jobs market, but also to focus on the leading indicators within that report, such as the manufacturing and construction sectors and also […]
Commentary by TaxFairness Open enrollment on the Affordable Care Act Marketplace is underway. Millions of Americans are logging on to renew their health coverage and finding that the cost of their premiums has exploded since Congress has not extended the enhanced ACA premium tax credits that helped tens of millions of people afford their health […]
A bit of a rewrite at Angry Bear. Lets be open here. I have listened to Senator Kennedy’s moronic opinions enough times to know much of what he says is a political attack rather than factual. Senator Kennedy makes it an issue of taking money from the budget to pass healthcare subsidies and funding higher […]
If you are in management, typically you will not know everything going on in a department. You may have to ask for clarification. You don’t panic and you do have to answer a comment or a question. Trump could not answer or rebut the reporter’s easy to answer question or remark. When you do not […]
Reacting to a runaway, incompetent president, and a rogue political party backing him; people decided a different path to take. This occurred in California, New Jersey, Georgia, New York, Virginia, Maine, and Colorado. Mayors and Governors were on the ballot as well lunch programs. The present, some history, and how to turn the table. “What […]
In the annals of Trump administration whining, the outrage over a protester flinging a wrapped sandwich at a border patrol officer must surely rank as among the silliest and most childish. “Jurors showed no appetite for the Justice Department’s case against “sandwich guy,” the D.C. resident who chucked a Subway sandwich at the chest of […]
– by New Deal democrat With the shutdown of the official government sources, along with the regional Fed indexes, the ISM manufacturing and services indexes have become especially important. To recap, because of manufacturing’s diminished importance to the general economy, the services index has become significantly more important. For forecasting purposes, I assign a 75% weight […]
The US has a long and sordid history of military extortion. The latest example is Trump’s saber-rattling movement of Navy battle groups off the coast of Venezuela and the extrajudicial assassinations the administration has been conducting off the Venezuelan coast in the name of drug interdiction.* Writing for the Boston Globe, Stephen Kinzer, a senior […]
Here’s a 50-state reality check of whether that is true or not as discussed by Veterans Healthcare Advocate Suzanne Gordon The Illusion of Choice Republicans say that VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S. Here’s a 50-state reality check. At his confirmation hearing in January of 2025, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, […]
This piece is over two months old. It still has relevance to the current issue of an understaffed VA and still pertinent. The issues with the VA have been ongoing for years. It is not something new. However, the situation has worsened under the Tru_p administration as they have taken a more aggressive role to […]