Comment by Terry (Terrance Nilles) as taken from “Trump’s China tariff gambit is failing,” Angry Bear At the end of the day, I think the whole tariff thing is not about raising money to pay for tax cuts or to bring industry back to this country or to stop fentanyl from coming across the border. […]

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European leaders arrive in Kyiv after Putin’s parade, Bangkok Post KYIV — The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland arrived in Kyiv on Saturday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a show of unity a day after Russia’s Vladimir Putin hosted his allies in a Victory Day parade on Red Square. The […]

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This does not surprise me. States attempting to attract business which will be in the right industry or the industry of the future. I am sure there will be more occurrences as politicians and states attempt to get ahead of the curve by attracting the right industry. Fortunately and in AZ, we have TSMC building […]

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Happy Mother’s Day to the Ladies who comment on Angry Bear and also to those who just come to read our commentaries. I can not think of a woman who could not be a mother to a child in distress or just needing direction or guidance. They do not have to be yours or mine […]

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) re-introduced a bicameral bill, “The Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act.” The aim of the bill is to require taxpayers with yearly incomes of more than $400,000 to contribute a fairer share of their income to the two programs. This is the opposite of what […]

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Some select facts about the Treasury Department Functions. This includes the size of it, currency, national banks, costs of tax collection, budget, etc. The latter of which make the Treasury the third largest department fund wise. Some interesting graphs depicting functions. What does the Department of the Treasury do? USAFacts Last month, a federal judge […]

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In a recent video podcast of The Jim Acosta Show, former news anchor and White House correspondent Jim Acosta catches up with Representative (Republican) outside of Capitol Hill. The reasons he was pursuing Representatives? To ask why they focused on the name-change bill, changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico, and whether they were […]

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I’ll start by saying that science doesn’t deal in proof. Science draws provisional conclusions based on the weight of evidence. A scientific hypothesis is one that can be tested and potentially falsified by experiment. The hypothesis that the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, originated from a natural infection just gained […]

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Trump slapped 145% tariffs on China, thinking it would hurt them more then it would hurt the US. Of course, trade is global, and so China’s exports surged in April as a result of a jump in shipments to Southeast Asia, offsetting the drop in outbound goods to the U.S. “China’s exports to the Association […]

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More wheeling and dealing by the Trump administration and Musk. As Common Dreams calls it, More Corruption. I am not sure if any other of the past presidencies can match the open quid pro quo we are witnessing with this administration. And it is right out in the open. Hey, wish to lose the tariffs, […]

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Angry Bear did have “open threads” in the past. They were meant to allow commenters to discuss topics which were important to them. The same rules apply in that you have to be polite, unruly, etc. I added one topic to this Open Thread. If there are other topics you wish to talk about, have […]

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Looking at the impact of Mike Johnson and the House proposal of cutting Medicaid will have an impact. Meanwhile, Trump is expecting cuts so as to keep the 2017 tax cuts of which a major portion went to the upper one-percent in income. Estimate “seems low” — KFF’s Larry Levitt, Brookings‘ Matt Fiedler, and Georgetown’s […]

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