Posted commentary by Daniel Becker on Facebook “For those of you who think your taxes are paying for the undocumented immigrant. Actually, they are paying for you. How you say? Because they will never be able to receive the full benefits of the taxes they pay.” “More than a third of the tax dollars paid […]

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I have not seen something like this for a decade or so. But then too, I was not in academia, I was off flitting around Asia and Europe working in the plants of various companies. This in an attempt to bring some type of order to supply chain with regard to manufacturing and ordering. If […]

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My opinion? Excluding portions of the population living in the United States from healthcare does not make good logistics or sense for that matter. Even if they are illegal, students, or just touring. Sickly people endanger the rest of the nation. The nation will end up spending more by reducing healthcare to them. It has […]

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Public trust in FDA decisions will plummet if Commissioner Marty Makary abandons the agency’s “gold standard” principles. Gooz News – Merrill Goozner FDA Commissioner Marty Makary had every right to revisit the benefits and risks of taking hormones to treat severe menopause symptoms. The agency currently warns they may increase the risk of heart attacks, […]

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The focus of this and past presidencies has been on immigration legal and illegal. The influx of unestablished legal immigrants has been higher than normal. Past presidents have talked to it and taken action. It was not till this presidency that a more personal look by this president has taken the forefront. He deficiently does […]

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If you have not noticed, the present administration has come all out for the upper income citizens. It was the low-and middle-income citizens which put our president in office either by voting or not voting. My point? Yes, the present administration will eventually be out of office. Then we have the House and the Senate […]

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Louis Brandeis says it all. Or did he? “We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.” by Steve Roth Originally posted at Wealth Economics I do so love diligent lifelong scholars (“experts,” in today’s deprecatory usage) sharing with […]

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There is much going on in the United States with a rogue president who clearly is abusing his role as the president to instill greater control over the nation beyond the courts and the legislature as determined in the constitution. Sometime in the not-so-distant future and if Tr__p does not stop the nation will come […]

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If the nation keeps booting people out of the US or locking them up, it will run out of Labor. The costs of which will increase significantly. With a citizen replacement ratio of 1.6 in 2025 as compared to 2.01 in 2006, shortages of Labor are not that distant. Then watch Labor wages increase and […]

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Excellent commentary by Joyce Vance. As a subscriber, I am happy I can present this piece on Angry Bear. We do not have many women commenting at Angry Bear. Please if there was never a opportunity for you to comment, maybe you can now. “The War on Women,” Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance When we […]

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Each day, I am inundated with articles coming from various locations. Some are informative, some are informative and others not so. These make for a good Sunday review if you have some time to do so. They cover a broad span of topics. At each site you may find other articles which may be of […]

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An Interesting Coincidence . . . Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted about the questionable timing. Elizabeth Warren Demands Paramount Explain Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Cancellation “CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if […]

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If was near the end of the Biden Administration when a rule removing Medical Debt from credit reports was finalized and activated March 2025. The rule was finalized in January 2025 and weeks before the end of the Biden administration. It was banning the reporting of medical debt in credit reports. The CFPB agency reported an ~15 million Americans […]

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– by New Deal democrat As we get towards the end of the month, the data from the important leading housing sector begins to be reported. This morning’s report on housing permits, starts, and construction continues the trend that has been in place for several years. For the month, permits (gold in the graph below) […]

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Brief Piece by EPI with an introduction . . . In “How will Trumponomics work out?” the author contends Trump will be disappointed in the results of his planned tariffs. Just watching this from the sidelines. The tariffs appear to change weekly and take on the form of various percentage rates, weeks, and months at […]

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I pulled this segment from a much longer commentary on PIIE. It was too long to post on Angry Bear. As it is, this segment is longer than what I wanted to post. A key to the commentary at PIIE by Oliver Blanchard is it was written in November 2024.The nation and Tr__p administration supported […]

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Trump was recently in the news promoting a switch from high fructose corn syrup to cane sugar in Coca-Cola, which he’s claiming credit for. Look, I’m not the world’s best biochemist, but this looked like marketing hype to me. Why is high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) problematic but cane sugar—which is a disaccharide of glucose […]

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 – by New Deal democrat Consumption leads employment, and retail sales are the most timely monthly indicator of consumption. Indeed, population-adjusted real retail sales in the past have tended to turn negative one year or more before a recession has begun. In June, nominally retail sales rose a strong 0.6%. But because consumer prices rose 0.3%, […]

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Just some local events and news in southern Arizona . . . As I read in the local newspapers . . . construction of TSMC semiconductor facilities is continuing in Arizona near Tucson. I went by this facility a while back. I also went by the latest facility not that long ago. I have included […]

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We made it out of a pandemic, a potential recession, and other issues which threatened the nation with Fed Chief/Chair Jerome Powell guiding the nation’s financial stability. The Fed did implement several policies to stabilize the financial system and support the flow of credit to households, businesses, and state and local governments at the onset […]

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