– by New Deal democrat I’ve been looking at new and existing home sales more in tandem recently, as we are looking for a rebalancing of the market, with prices abating in existing home sales and inventory increasing, vs. new houses where prices have been slightly declining. Additionally, as usual let me start with the important […]

Here’s a program to limit out-of-pocket costs and insurer overreach: Put a cap on household spending and put providers on a budget. The ‘skin in the game’ gambit has failed – by Merrill Goozner GoozNews Online vitriol isn’t pretty. But the mass schadenfreude that greeted the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, while cruel […]

(Reuters File Photo) I picked this up while reading the Bangkok Post a newspaper I would pick up while in Thailand working. It is a notable newspaper. The following was printed in a press release by the Office of Public Affairs as released by the US Department of Justice. Justice Department Announces Resolution of Criminal […]

When we food shop, we find ourselves going for the name brands rather than the private brands. We do find a difference in taste comparisons. It has happened enough time in finding some private brands tasting very different from what we are used to eating. Cost is a factor when it comes to canned goods […]

I finished Every Valley: The desperate lives and troubled times that made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King on Christmas Eve. It somehow seemed fitting to read this book in this season, although the oratorio Messiah was originally performed at Easter. I visited Handel’s birthplace in Halle three times in the 1990s, I’ve toured the Handel […]

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; […]