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Alternate sources of employment data point to job losses, steady to higher unemployment rate in September

– by New Deal democrat As we all know by now, there is no US jobs report today due to the government shutdown. But there are a number of alternative measures which can give us a good estimate of what the jobs situation is. Let me start first with the unemployment rate. Here is an […]

Vaccine Exemptions by State for Children

Not sure if you noticed last evening(?), the President was commenting about acetaminophen (known by various brand names) and autism. Thereby his warning to pregnant women not to take this pain reliever. Both he and Robert Kennedy are advocating such. As soon as the claim was made, the news channels cut away from the announcement […]

Jerbs

“ADP also revised the August jobs number down, saying that the private sector lost 3,000 jobs that month. Ultimately, that means the private sector has lost jobs in three out of the last four months, per ADP estimates. “What’s more, since the start of April, when Trump first announced his moronic “Liberation Day” tariffs, the […]

Creating more academic dishonesty than it detects!

It has been a while since Angry Bear has posted one of Sandwichman’s piece. I have a similar ideology as Sandwichman has when it comes to manufacturing, etc. My approach is in the plants or in the actual supply chain. This is an interesting piece about academic issues. “Artificial intelligence creates more academic dishonesty than […]

Ending Birthright Citizenship

The Constitution is clear: The J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School Gerald Neuman ’80: “Those born on American soil, even to undocumented parents, are citizens of the United States. Neuman, an expert in immigration and nationality law, affirms both history and Supreme Court precedent confirm an intent […]

Final August durable goods orders: more evidence that the AI related buildout is keeping the economy afloat

 – by New Deal democrat Oddly, even though the government shutdown has crippled most reporting, the Census Bureau did update the durable goods report for August today, and it does reveal an essential bifurcation in the state of the economy. First, here are the topline leading indicators: total durable goods orders (blue), core capital goods orders […]

Another Explanation of Why We Should Be Concerned About ACA Subsidies

This is not the first article to be presented at Angry Bear discussing healthcare insurance if government subsidies disappear. Besides the ACA, Medicaid, and also Medicare will be impacted by the Tr_mp government. Lets see if Democrats can hold together this time. There is no one to threaten them as are Republican legislators. We shall […]

Medical quackery is everywhere

When we moved to Rhode Island, we chose the location to be near high end healthcare. In addition to being only an hour from Boston, we were close to clinicians affiliated with Brown University, the local Ivy League university. But that affiliation is no guarantee against quacks: “A population-based retrospective study from South Korea is […]

A note on initial jobless claims

 – by New Deal democrat It’s Thursday, which typically means it’s time for the weekly initial and continuing jobless claims update. As we all know, the Federal government has shut down, because there is no budget for this fiscal year that began yesterday. BUT, I went back and checked, and during the extended government shutdown in […]

The Sanity of Student Loans

Oops my mistake. There is no sanity to student loans lasting a lifetime. Not when every other loan people have, get in trouble with, is forgiven through bankruptcy. It does not matter when or what they do is stupid, miscalculated, abused, spent unnecessarily, etc. The loans are forgiven. The only difference here is a student […]