https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/04/11/homeowners-face-a-25trn-bill-from-climate-change The post Open Thread April 23 2024 Homeowners face a $25trn bill from climate change appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

by Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early Washington Monthly Trump has mocked veterans and privatized their health care. Biden honors them but hasn’t challenged Trump’s privatization policies. Currently, they are moving more and more veterans to commercial healthcare. This rather than restoring VA healthcare to a better place for veterans to be and at a lower […] The post Trump vs. Biden: Who Got More Done for Veterans? appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

by Tom Dinger The Bell A commentary by an acquaintance of mine and from years ago. I believe there is only one person who might recognize the author. He was well liked amongst his fellow writers. Americans Doubting the Big Bang Is a Healthy Thing A new Associated Press-GfK poll asked approximately one thousand U.S. adults to […] The post Science and the Tinkerbell Effect appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

 – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog This is an update of some information I last posted several months ago. Real median household income is one of the best measures of average Americans’ well-being. However, the official measure is only reported once a year, in September of the following year. So right now the most […] The post Real median wage and income growth through March continued the recent increasing trend appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

by Laurelle Stelle msn.com, The Cool Down Nice read on geothermal energy produced from rock formations in deep dry oil wells. In Texas, several innovative new companies are combining clean energy technology and the expertise of former oil and gas industry employees to create a whole new generation of geothermal power plants, Grist reported. Geothermal energy is a […] The post Former Shell employees resurrect dead well in ‘monumental’ move for geothermal energy: ‘Big step change for humanity’ appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

by an old friend from “The Fray” Claude Scales Self-Absorbed Boomer Your smartphone, like mine, likely has the logo at left on it somewhere. I knew that “Bluetooth” was the name given to an ancient Scandinavian king, but had no clue why the app was named for him. Now, thanks to Rick Spilman in The Old […] The post Why is a widely used app named for a tenth century Scandinavian king? appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

by Steve Roth Wealth Economics Imagine a five-player poker game. Assume all the players have equal skill, so the flows across the table over the course of the game are just a random walk. “It’s just how the cards fall.” All the players start with the same number of chips. But there’s one difference: four […] The post Why Unlimited Wealth Is an Unassailable Advantage appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

 – by New Deal democrat The Bonddad Blog I neglected to put this up Saturday, so here it is now. My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. There continues to be a fair amount of churn and noise in the short leading and coincident time range. Nevertheless, the underlying theme is one of positivity. Aside […] The post New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for April 15 – 19 2024 appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

Look, Mike Johnson is a right-wing Christianist theocrat, but he did the right thing on Ukraine aid. I get it. This was partly a power play on his part to show that he, and not MTG, is in control of the House. And if the deal was that Democrats will vote against a motion to […] The post Credit where credit is due appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more

by Prof. Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American I will not spend the rest of 2024 focusing on Trump and the chaos in the Republican Party, but today it has been impossible to look away. In Trump’s election interference trial in Manhattan, Judge Juan Merchan this morning dismissed one of the selected jurors after […] The post Trump’s election interference trial in Manhattan appeared first on Angry Bear ..read more