It probably would not matter if a DEm President made the same decision to do so on his own rather than go through Congress. Trump wishes to be a king and make edicts on his own outside of Congress, Even so and if such was done? There would be a good chance the courts would […]
I did present data on rural hospitals in the past in rewrites. It has been a while since I wrote much on healthcare as it takes a lot of investigation to do so. With Dan around and other writers, I was able to do the research on the topic. I am not complaining as I […]
How many of us heard some variation of this from their mom: “If your friends jumped off a cliff (or bridge), would you do it too?” If RFK Jr told you to treat measles with vitamin A, would you do it too? “A team from Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts analyzed Google search trends data […]
I did not alter this commentary at all. It is as it was done by the author. I did shorten up the colorful links at they are distracting. I agree with the author, we do not need to murder people because of what they did. If you are nosey? I will tell you a lifetime […]
As you probably know by now, I subscribe to Paul Krugman’s column which I read whenever I see something of interest. to me and maybe you too. Every once and a while I may C& P one column that is days old and post it at Angry Bear and of course attribute Professor Krugman. As […]
– by New Deal democrat It’s the Monday after the jobs report, and as usual there is no new data today. So let’s take a look at a few of the salient trends from Friday’s report. First of all, this was the fourth good report in a row. Furthermore, it isn’t just goods producing jobs […]
I somehow missed this, but a couple months ago the Trump Administration abandoned its effort to cut indirect cost reimbursements for federal grants to colleges and universities to 15%. Just before I retired, the indirect cost rate at Saint Louis University was 51.5%, so this cut would have been devastating to research at SLU. When […]
“Trump’s New Medicaid Rule ‘Designed to Ensure People Lose Healthcare,’ Critics Warn” Common Dreams Jake Johnson The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a rule that is expected to push millions of low-income people off Medicaid by imposing complex bureaucratic barriers in the form of work reporting requirements, which have proven disastrous at the state level. The rule, released by the Centers for Medicare and […]
I know Econofact is discussing various programs as being an issue. Social Security being one of them. That may be true for Social Security if the funds are not available to pay back what is owed to the Trust fund. The other issue being the decreases in taxes for upper income brackets which would have […]
Weekly Indicators for June 1 – 5 at Seeking Alpha – by New Deal democrat The large majority of the high frequency indicators remain positive. Interestingly, though, one of the early warning signals for credit tightening, the Chicago Fed’s Leverage Index, is now at a level that in the past has more often meant a […]