A Brief designed explanation taken from the Center for American Progress commentary and analysis. It finds Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are overpaid by 22 to 39 percent. Instead of overpaying Medicare Advantage the curbing of MA overpayments should be used to improve the Medicare program for all beneficiaries. This is nothing new and I have […]
First, my opinion. If anybody thinks this is not holding Trade with the US hostage until the other country concedes, they are crazy. Trump is obviously flexing our muscle to gain political advantage and a venue in which to brag. The only thing a tariff will do is protect an industry for a short period […]
The latest meme around the Trump tariffs is TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out. Savvy traders are buying on the TACO tariff dips and selling on the TACO caves. And those caves are popular. “Yesterday, the Conference Board reported that in May consumer confidence surged by 12.3, the largest monthly increase in four years. Bloomberg said […]
I recall a time when the Republican Party stood for small government and local control. The grandiose Trump GOP cult has abandoned that principle in favor of meddling in anything and everything public and private that Trump opposes. “The administration has threatened to hold back the funds and permissions unless New York stops charging tolls […]
I didn’t apply to Harvard. I wouldn’t have gotten in if I had. Even though I lettered in track and field and was captain of my high school cross country team, I was a B student in high school. I didn’t apply to Harvard for grad school either. The lab where I did my postdoc […]
U.S. President Donald Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning: Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical left minds . […]
Carpetbagger Mikie Rogers Trying to Become a Michigan Senator Again. He could not beat Stabenow (won by ~ 1 million votes) and he was not about to take on Peters who won by 500,000 votes over a different candidate. Rogers had a disliking for the ACA and did not have much to offer in place […]
Change in Household Income Resulting from the Republican and Trumps extension of the 2017 Tax Bill or the TCJA Daniel Becker had this bar chart on Facebook which details how the tax break will play out. Really great for the 1 tenth of 1 percenters. Good for the top 1 percenters and the upper five […]
– by New Deal democrat Last week the existing home sales report showed continued deceleration in YoY price increases to 1.8%, indicative of the ongoing rebalancing of the housing market. This morning’s repeat home sales reports from the FHFA and S&P Case Shiller confirmed that deceleration and ongoing rebalancing. On a seasonally adjusted basis, in […]
It’s not just Tesla that is becoming poison in Europe: “European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean, where bookings are rising and demand is outpacing the American market. Carriers including […]