I am hoping this Christmas finds Angry Bear readers and commenters happy, of good health, and with family. There were years when I was away from family. It was not the same even though we had a good meal in the Mess Hall. Maybe you know of someone who is away from family and home […]

Not too much to say here. They did vote on the WEP and the GPO. They passed it. I get the impression the politicians are going to take advantage of the elderly and not pay more into the SS Fund. A few years back it was easy enough to fix with a tweak of an […]

I worked in automotive the last decade (when employed) or so dealing with plastic components in cars. All types of plastic resins, the tooling involved, capacity of the tooling, and the scheduling. I cost modeled components for Yazaki and other companies. Took my boss’s model and grew it and adding other operations in it. It […]

When you think of a community, often times we think of a town or a part of a city as being a community. So, when the hospital closes there is always another one nearby. Think a little larger and expand this to a county or a region. The travel become longer and more time consuming […]

“Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance” – by Douglass C. North The one-handed economist Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; […]

It is not spending causing the issues as the young Trump boasts. It is the tax cuts which have imbalanced credits to debits causing the deficits. What Republican’s promised would happen, failed to happen. The 2017 tax cuts did not stimulate the economy enough (not at all) to balance out spending to receipts. Since the […]

If one were to attack real-spending as an issue to our economy and wish to lower spending, one of the places to look is commercial healthcare insurance. If I were the richest jumping -jack in the world, I would target Medicare Advantage which is paid extra to provide fundamental healthcare and up codes the service […]

I believe just about every child growing up had their vroom toys. Many of them were made of metal and took the shape of pickup trucks early on. Many of us grew up watching some of the old shows such as Jeff’s Collie and Lassie. There always seemed to be a farm and there was […]

When I was in the target demographic, Sesame Street didn’t exist. I did watch Captain Kangaroo a few times, but that’s not the same thing. My daughter did watch Sesame Street, along with Reading Rainbow and other PBS kids shows when she was stuck at home with me because of illness. I certainly have a […]

The revival of an old Roman method of supplying water (non potable) for use in other needs besides drinking or cooking. The aqueduct still works and Greece is putting the old supply line to good use after hundred of years. Hadrian’s Aqueduct supplied water to Greece’s capital for centuries but was then largely abandoned. It’s […]