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		<title>New home sales and repeat home prices may both have sung their ‘swan song’ for recent trends last month</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[US Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat Last month I closed with “a reminder that the Fed’s interest rate hike and the similar increase in mortgage rates suggests that the recent equilibrium in the market is probably going to be yanked to the downside.”&#160;We have already seen that with mortgage applications, which have fallen to close to [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Michigan US Senate Race</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/michigan-us-senate-race</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abdul El-Sayed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and Mikie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I took some time to rewrite this as I did live in Michigan (near Ann Arbor) for over twenty years. I served on a Township Planning Commission and knew how things were decided and the influence of county and state. It was a good lesson in how communities come together. Again, a bit of a [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/michigan-us-senate-race">Michigan US Senate Race</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-67</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It’s true that the White House squeezes money and well-being from the targets of its campaign even when it doesn’t secure convictions. But when the failures are so consistent and so abject they have the effect of advertising both the President’s abuses of power and his weakness. Successfully abusing your power is a display of [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>RFK Jr is an idiot</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/rfk-jr-is-an-idiot</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RFK Jr gaffe]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>RFK Jr’s lack of knowledge about healthcare, vaccines and nutrition have been well-documented. Remarkably, this former heroin addict who cops to snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat continues to self-own his ignorance. “There&#8217;s 500 million Arabs in the world and yet they don&#8217;t produce science,&#8221; Kennedy said on the campaign trail Monday. &#8220;They don&#8217;t [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/rfk-jr-is-an-idiot">RFK Jr is an idiot</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Brief Topical Weekly Stock Market Report</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/brief-topical-weekly-stock-market-report</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[US Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brief report]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>There is more to the report than this portion. The link will take you to it if you wish to read more. Weekly Stock Market Update &#124; Edward Jones Rising rates have added to concerns over the sustainability of the AI investment and earnings cycle that has emerged in recent years. Capex spending among AI [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/brief-topical-weekly-stock-market-report">Brief Topical Weekly Stock Market Report</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>‘Level two’ chaotic systems, polling, and election results</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[US Economics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8211; by New Deal democrat ﻿There’s no important economic data today, so let me post something that I meant to write about over the weekend before I was distracted by real life. In his book “Sapiens,” Yuval Noah Harari writes that: [M]any people [ ] prefer history to be deterministic. Determinism is appealing because it [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/level-two-chaotic-systems-polling-and-election-results">‘Level two’ chaotic systems, polling, and election results</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-66</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[US/Global Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[semiconductor supply chain]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Globalization has become tainted in our eyes, as if it necessarily constitutes a zero-sum enterprise. And its mercenary form—which is also its most common form—has indeed inflicted harm. But the global semiconductor supply chain reflects an alternative pathway. It has united its participants in the pursuit of something profoundly difficult that could not have been [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>It Must Be Fun When Two Privileged Jackasses Decide How They Will Split the World Up</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/it-must-be-fun-when-two-privileged-jackasses-decide-how-they-will-split-the-world-up</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zelensky]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Russia governs in a different manner than the United States. Not much to disagree with there. If you have a verbal complaint about what I am saying in the first sentence, then AB might not be a place to be. Or you can ignore me and read on a different commentary at Angry Bear. Chillingly [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/it-must-be-fun-when-two-privileged-jackasses-decide-how-they-will-split-the-world-up">It Must Be Fun When Two Privileged Jackasses Decide How They Will Split the World Up</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Generic ballot still breaking for the Democrats</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/generic-ballot-still-breaking-for-the-democrats</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Kramer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Check out the latest generic ballot at fiftyplusone.&#160; Undecided voters – some of whom may have actually voted – are breaking entirely for the Democrats.&#160; Past patterns may not predict the future, and the polls may be wrong, but right now things seem to going well for the blue team. It’s not clear how successful [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/generic-ballot-still-breaking-for-the-democrats">Generic ballot still breaking for the Democrats</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>El Sayed&#8217;s Mother &#8211; Michigan</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/el-sayeds-mother-michigan</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This guy abandons Michigan by retiring in 2014. He then returns to Michigan to run against Elissa Slokin in 2024 to replace Debbie Stabenow as Senator. He loses. Senator Gary Peters is retiring. Now Roberts is running against is El-Sayed for the open Senate Seat. And of course, Rogers is pulling out all the tricks [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/el-sayeds-mother-michigan">El Sayed&#8217;s Mother &#8211; Michigan</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-65</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the &#8216;transcendent&#8217; and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don&#8217;t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-65">Quote of the day</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Boomers and property taxes</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/boomers-and-property-taxes</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Property taxes]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Property taxes are a kind of wealth tax. For most Americans, most of their wealth is in their house. “92-year-old Pennsylvania woman died in January after prolonged health issues and a nightmarish six-year battle over property taxes. “Gloria Gaynor, who was bedridden from illness, accrued $3,500 in unpaid property taxes in 2020. By 2025, she [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/boomers-and-property-taxes">Boomers and property taxes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>New Deal&#8217;s democrat&#8217;s Weekly Indicators for October 19 &#8211; 23</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/new-deals-democrats-weekly-indicators-for-october-19-23</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[US Economics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. While the usual recent troika of stock market valuations, low initial jobless claims, and strong consumer spending are holding up the short leading and coincident forecasting time frames, enough deterioration has occurred in the long leading time frame to turn that neutral. [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/new-deals-democrats-weekly-indicators-for-october-19-23">New Deal&#8217;s democrat&#8217;s Weekly Indicators for October 19 &#8211; 23</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Return of Mike Rogers to Michigan, &#8220;Some&#8221; Info</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/the-return-of-mike-rogers-to-michigan-some-info</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Article by Matthew Cunnigham- Cook: &#8220;Mike Rogers Got Big Payout Before Controversial Cybersecurity Firm Went Bankrupt.&#8221; Mike left Michigan after losing to now Senator Elissa Slotkin. He did well for himself till the company went on a losing streak. He bailed and returned to Michigan. Not all of the story. It would be good to [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/the-return-of-mike-rogers-to-michigan-some-info">The Return of Mike Rogers to Michigan, &#8220;Some&#8221; Info</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>No, we are not DOOMED: real usual weekly earnings edition</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/o-we-are-not-doomed-real-usual-weekly-earnings-edition</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[not doomed]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8211; by New Deal democrat As widely reported in the past week, real weekly earnings declined a sharp -2.1% in Q3. For example, here is Menzie Chinn at Econbrowser: And here, more histrionically, is Mike Koncxal on X: Is this an important danger sign? No. Why? To cut to the chase, because even after seasonal [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/o-we-are-not-doomed-real-usual-weekly-earnings-edition">No, we are not DOOMED: real usual weekly earnings edition</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Chart of the day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindergarten vaccination]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/chart-of-the-day">Chart of the day</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Jobless claims continue near historic lows, forecast sub-4.0% unemployment rate</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/jobless-claims-continue-near-historic-lows-forecast-sub-4-0-unemployment-rate</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat Let’s take our regular weekly look at jobless claims. As a brief reminder, I always look at this because, especially in conjunction with stock market performance, it is an excellent short leading indicator, and also leads the monthly unemployment rate.&#160; And the news continues to be very good especially on [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>A modest proposal</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/a-modest-proposal-2</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/a-modest-proposal-2">A modest proposal</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>When Civilians and Companies Do Not Have the Right to Interfere Globally</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/when-civilians-and-companies-do-not-have-the-right-to-interfere-globally</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://angrybearblog.com/?p=194913</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>A trillionaire decides he can do whatever he wants to do in the United States. What is alarming is Musk takes it upon himself to correct a dignitary of another country. This is completely out of his realm of command or influence, He interfered in a conflict between two countries, One country which the United [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The inflationary expansion is still expanding, and is likely even more inflationary</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/the-inflationary-expansion-is-still-expanding-and-is-likely-even-more-inflationary</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://angrybearblog.com/?p=194923</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat There were a couple of reports last week about the manufacturing sector that I didn’t cover then. Let’s take a look at them now. What I am interested in is whether the rebound in manufacturing is continuing, is it more or less inflationary, and is it supported by sales? First [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>It costs money to make money</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/it-costs-money-to-make-money</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[financial donations]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I’ve made relatively modest financial donations to my former employer, Saint Louis Universities, targeting a couple of worthy endowment funds. Sadly, 40% of the money went to the university development office, even though they had no role in my decision to contribute. Skimming political contributions is even worse: “If your $100 was in response to [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-64</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When a business becomes critical infrastructure, its relationship with society alters. If SpaceX builds a near-monopoly on satellite internet, no matter how objectively good the product is, and its CEO then uses it to conduct foreign policy according to his own politics and against the interests of the United States, the company has violated the [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Eli Crane Voted for Over $1 trillion in Republican Healthcare Cuts &#8211; AZ Voting Information</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/eli-crane-voted-for-over-1-trillion-in-republican-healthcare-cuts-az-voting-information</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Some Voting Information on Medicaid and the Affordable Healthcare Act issues. I posted some of the information that may not be well known as this is information of what the Republican bill has done to citizens. Mostly, just the facts. Democrats are coming out and adverting how Tr__p and Republicans are impacting healthcare, their healthcare. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Morbid: A book review</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/morbid-a-book-review</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>There are few things I enjoy more than a sound debunking. A few years ago, I was asked to review a book on “the science of near-death experiences.” The guy who requested the review was the author, who is also the editor of Missouri Medicine. I wrote a review that expressed my deep skepticism in [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/morbid-a-book-review">Morbid: A book review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>A picture is worth a thousand words, cont’d</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-contd</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“Mortgage applications have continued their downward slide even as mortgage rates ticked down for the first time in months.” mortgage demand vs rates</p>
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		<title>Giant ‘heat storms’ are scorching the Earth</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/giant-heat-storms-are-scorching-the-earth</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken Melvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Ken&#8217;s Substack: This is only a part of the story of the biggest heat storm on record. The rest of the much longer story can be found here. This abbreviated piece is a partial introduction to the global heat storm crisis. Not even an introdution. Just a tidbit of a much larger story by Reuters. [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Slowed Starlink Service to Ukraine</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/slowed-starlink-service-to-ukraine</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This just popped up in my emails. It appears Musk is making decisions on whether the product he sold to Ukraine works or not during certain times. Professor Heather Cox Richardson revealed on Letters from an American, Elon Musk made the decision to slow down Space X service to Ukraine. I am sure this was [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/slowed-starlink-service-to-ukraine">Slowed Starlink Service to Ukraine</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Enough With the False Equivalencies!</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/enough-with-the-false-equivalencies</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Some history: We were living in Michigan for 20+ years. I was watching and listening to Mike Rogers attempts at stirring the citizens up with his noise. After Mike lost to Elissa Slokin 2024, Mike left the State of Michigan for better turf. Rogers had served as chair of the House Intelligence Committee for four [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Inheritance taxes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here’s United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on inheritance taxes: “&#8221;Wealth inequality has become a danger to our society, and we need to address that. We should have a national wealth tax — it won&#8217;t work by state because people will just move. And I think we should have inheritance taxes that get close to 100% [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>A picture is worth a thousand words</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Correlation or causation? We report, you decide. &#8220;It’s the AI Economy … We’re Just Living In It,&#8221; TPM</p>
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		<title>&#8220;saying farewell to the late incipient housing recovery&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/saying-farewell-to-the-late-incipient-housing-recovery</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>September new housing construction: saying farewell to the late incipient housing recovery  &#8211; by New Deal democrat Last month I started my report on housing construction by writing that “This morning’s report on housing construction may be the last decent one for quite awhile.” And it was.&#160; Up until last month I had been&#160;writing that [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/saying-farewell-to-the-late-incipient-housing-recovery">&#8220;saying farewell to the late incipient housing recovery&#8221;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Trump inherited a relatively benign inflation picture and threw that inheritance away with his tariffs&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/trump-inherited-a-relatively-benign-inflation-picture-and-threw-that-inheritance-away-with-his-tariffs</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A bit of Paul Krugman this morning telling us all what I believe we probably know already We are experiencing a large degree of Presidentially created or induced inflation. I think I will stick with the first. I think Trump already knows we have inflation. He may not know his efforts with the economy caused [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Forcing the Issue May Get You Nowhere Except Looking Stupid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This is being more of a revenge issue and motivation to make Smith look like a criminal. So far, I have not heard or read a pices that stands by itself. They are all accusations that lack a foundation or backup. If you do come across one accusation that was proven true, I would like [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/forcing-the-issue-may-get-you-nowhere-except-looking-stupid">Forcing the Issue May Get You Nowhere Except Looking Stupid</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-63</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>If you want to shift public opinion, you need to bring the most egregious act to the table. And bit by bit, the mainstream narrative will move toward the next, slightly less egregious thing. It’s worked, because everybody is talking about whether Nidal Hasan’s execution should be livestreamed, but nobody’s talking about why he is [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-63">Quote of the day</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Consumer spending, income, and wealth</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/consumer-spending-income-and-wealth</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat For awhile now I have been writing about how the wealth effect has been powering sales among upper income households.﻿ Earlier this year the Minneapolis Fed took a look at the phenomenon, comparing data from several different sources, including Moody’s: The New York Fed: And Bank of America: They noted [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/consumer-spending-income-and-wealth">Consumer spending, income, and wealth</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>If Only He Had Stayed the Course</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/if-only-he-had-stayed-the-course</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Trumpflation Is Here! Dean Baker If only he had stayed the course started by Biden. However, Donald Trump loves to put his name on things, and when it comes to the recent burst of inflation, it’s totally deserved. Trump and Republican politicians are doing their best to try to make a simple story complicated. But [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/if-only-he-had-stayed-the-course">If Only He Had Stayed the Course</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Brief Commentary on Trump Projects and Expenditures</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I have thought about this from times to time. President Trump has been instrumental in changing many things in the United States to suit his desires. Some of his ideas are ridiculous and the sign of a person who has some mental issues. Republicans support these changes and do not oppose his efforts. Democrats do [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/brief-commentary-on-trump-projects-and-expenditures">Brief Commentary on Trump Projects and Expenditures</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Time’s up</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In reality, changing the clocks doesn’t create or destroy daylight. It only changes what we call it. If you want more daylight in the winter, you need to move closer to the equator. Changing the clocks twice a year is a nuisance. It’s also unhealthy. “The switch itself does real harm. In the days after [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/times-up">Time’s up</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Presidential Attacks on Citizens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>About time someone of influence stepped forward to resist the racial discrimination this administration exhibits. This is mostly due to the policies and direction put forth by our presidential leader and government followers supporting his discriminatory directives. A bit of background by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights . . . &#8220;Trump’s Executive [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/presidential-attacks-on-citizens">Presidential Attacks on Citizens</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for October 12 &#8211; 16 </title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/new-deal-democrats-weekly-indicators-for-october-12-16</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The tug of war between the AI-powered inflationary expansion, and the Big Bad Billionaire Bust-out Bill and Iran war-related increase in interest rates and gas prices continues. In the present, so far AI is winning. But out on the horizon, enough damage has accrued that (for [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/new-deal-democrats-weekly-indicators-for-october-12-16">New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for October 12 &#8211; 16 </a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Mike Rogers and Trump Attacking Michigan Senate Candidate El Sayed</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/mike-rogers-and-trump-attacking-michigan-senate-candidate-el-sayed</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I lived in Michigan near Ann Arbor for over 20 years. Juan Cole is a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. While Prof. Cole and I have never met, we have exchanged a couple of emails in the past. As is usual I solicit for Angry Bear Blog in the hope I [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/mike-rogers-and-trump-attacking-michigan-senate-candidate-el-sayed">Mike Rogers and Trump Attacking Michigan Senate Candidate El Sayed</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Retail sales continue this year’s positive trend, suggest jobs market likely to improve as well</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/retail-sales-continue-this-years-positive-trend-suggest-jobs-market-likely-to-improve-as-well</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat As per usual, real retail sales is one of my favorite economic indicators, because it says so much about the health of the US consumer, and since consumption leads employment (noisily), also forecasts the trend in job creation. Normally I don’t spend a lot of time on nominal retail sales, [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>A Year Later, A Look Back on Why Mike Rogers Lost in 2024 </title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/a-year-later-a-look-back-on-why-mike-rogers-lost-in-2024</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Racist Cartoonists Can&#8217;t Decide How to Smear El-Sayed,&#8221; Informed Commet Political cartoons commenting on Michigan’s 2026 US Senate race have been dominated by a torrent of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism directed at Democratic nominee Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, an Arab-American Muslim. These caricatures do not come out of nowhere, of course, but reflect the poisonous atmosphere [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/a-year-later-a-look-back-on-why-mike-rogers-lost-in-2024">A Year Later, A Look Back on Why Mike Rogers Lost in 2024 </a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>AI and the Public</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Something extraordinary has happened in the past few weeks. Some of the people developing the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence are publicly warning that AI may be advancing too rapidly and that stronger safeguards are necessary. OpenAI is calling for mandatory national AI safety requirements. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slowing development. Other [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/ai-and-the-public">AI and the Public</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>AI data center construction continues to be the center piece of the manufacturing rebound since last year</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat One of the biggest, if not the biggest, trend I have been writing about is the rebound in manufacturing that has been driven by AI data center construction. In that regard, industrial production, one of the four important monthly series that the NBER looks at in determining whether the economy [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/ai-data-center-construction-continues-to-be-the-center-piece-of-the-manufacturing-rebound-since-last-year">AI data center construction continues to be the center piece of the manufacturing rebound since last year</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Selling Out Allies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Just about the time, you believe you have seen the worst in some people, they will do something else which will drive your thoughts of them even lower. Just because he screwed with attacking Iran which led to increasing gasoline prices in the United States and global oil issue, Trump decides he can sell out [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/selling-out-allies">Selling Out Allies</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Consumer Price Index Up and Up More for Some Items</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Typically, when I read these brief articles, they do not include the graphs. or other bits of information which may help in understanding, Chart 1 looks at information from September 2025 to September 2026. The same holds true for Chart 2 which I also included in this presentation. I believe it to be important to [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/consumer-price-index-up-and-up-more-for-some-items">Consumer Price Index Up and Up More for Some Items</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>The beginning of the end of dollar dominance?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The US dollar has been the world’s reserve currency for decades. This has meant more favorable lending conditions for America. Now, it looks like China is making a play to displace the dollar. “Zambia is set to accept the Chinese yuan for some copper exports starting next year, marking a significant move away from US [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-dollar-dominance">The beginning of the end of dollar dominance?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Jobless claims continue near historic lows (yet again)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat Let’s take our regular weekly look at jobless claims. As per my periodic reminder, these are an excellent short leading indicator for the economy, particularly in conjunction with the other half of my “quick and dirty” forecast method, the YoY% change in stock prices. These have been near historic lows [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Are you better off today?</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/are-you-better-off-today</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Going into the midterms, Democrats should be asking voters “are you better off today than two years ago?” Below is a table of some metrics at the end of the Biden Administration. What&#8217;s missing is mortgage rates, which were 6.6% when Biden left office and are north of 7.3% now. Republicans control the White House [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Update on the Purdue Pharma Which Officially Dissolved May 1, 2026</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/update-on-the-purdue-pharma-which-officially-dissolved-may-1-2026</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Connecticut Attorney General Announces Purdue Pharma to Dissolve Today as $7.4 Billion Opioid Settlement Goes into Effect Angry Bear has written about and or presented articles about the Opioid epidemic repeatedly in the past and the companies that have made opioids readily available. The emphasis was very much the use of opioids did not cause [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/update-on-the-purdue-pharma-which-officially-dissolved-may-1-2026">Update on the Purdue Pharma Which Officially Dissolved May 1, 2026</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Social Security Update</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/social-security-update-2</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://angrybearblog.com/?p=194669</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>Angry Bears Since I (Dale Coberly) stopped writing for Angry Bear, I have concentrated on reaching the Senate Finance Committee. I succeeded with a little help from my friends. &#160;The Finance Committee forwarded my proposal to create permanent sustainable solvency for Social Security to the Office of the Chief Actuary for formal scoring. &#160;Unfortunately, my [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/social-security-update-2">Social Security Update</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>September CPI shows widespread movement *away* from Fed target, post-pandemic low in real nonsupervisory payroll growth</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/september-cpi-shows-widespread-movement-away-from-fed-target-post-pandemic-low-in-real-nonsupervisory-payroll-growth</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat After two benign months due to a temporary decline in energy prices this summer, the higher trend in inflation returned. And that continued in September, as prices (blue) rose 0.6%, and on a YoY% basis accelerated 0.3% to 3.7%. Core CPI excluding food and energy (red) also rose 0.3% for [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Up to Twelve Million Americans already lost healthcare coverage under Trump 2.0</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/up-to-twelve-million-americans-already-lost-healthcare-coverage-under-trump-2-0</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Introduction: I lived in Michigan for a number of years and ran in another Michigander by the name of Charles Gaba who was writing on the ACA and healthcare. This was about the time Maggie Mahar was writing at Angry Bear and retired from the spotlight. Charles has been writing about the ACA and healthcare [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>&#8220;99% Invisible City&#8221; Review</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/99-invisible-city-review</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Book Review of the: &#8220;99% Invisible City&#8221; &#8211; by Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars The one-handed economist David Zetland This 2020 book by Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars is a spin off from the delightful podcast of the same name. The book, subtitled A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, is full [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/99-invisible-city-review">&#8220;99% Invisible City&#8221; Review</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-62</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Buying diesel from Russia will not change the price of diesel. It is questionable that Russia can actually deliver the diesel fuel. It is facing domestic shortages itself. Like a typical Trump deal, this could well end in an appeal to American taxpayers to pay for something two or three times which was advertised as [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-62">Quote of the day</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;something&#8217; fishy is there&#8217;, but everybody&#8217;s entitled to equal justice under the laws&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/something-fishy-is-there-but-everybodys-entitled-to-equal-justice-under-the-laws</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Trump said on Monday: &#8220;&#8216;I’ve always found her to be totally crooked personally, but that has nothing to do with me. I think she’s a terrible person, just a complainer. She comes from a country that is a non-country, and then she comes over here, and she complains about our constitution. I think she’s a [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The subpar equilibrium in existing home sales continues &#8211; for now</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/the-subpar-equilibrium-in-existing-home-sales-continues-for-now</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat To repeat my housing sector mantra for the umpteenth time, mortgage rates lead sales, which in turn lead prices, which finally lead inventory.&#160; And for the last three years, the market for existing homes has been rangebound, first in sales, then in prices, and finally this year in inventory as [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/the-subpar-equilibrium-in-existing-home-sales-continues-for-now">The subpar equilibrium in existing home sales continues &#8211; for now</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Medicaid Fraud?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>How bad is Medicaid fraud? A May 2024 report broke down the criminal convictions and civil settlements and judgments by provider type, including inpatient and outpatient facilities, non-facility providers (such as durable medical equipment suppliers), and physicians and other licensed practitioners.&#160; Beneficiary fraud is negligible (two percent of the reported convictions and one tenth of [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/medicaid-fraud">Medicaid Fraud?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;97% Of the Press Applaud the Three Percent Who Bailed, Plus&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/97-of-the-press-applaud-the-three-percent-who-bailed-plus-2</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Old friend from Slate Magazine when it was fun to write on it. Then Slate got commercial and we were shooed off. A bunch of us got together in two different cities. Finally met and went our ways as Slate crumbled into a profit center. Some awfully good writers dwelled there as I struggled to [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Trump and the march of folly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In her book “March of Folly,” Barbara defined three criteria to distinguish merely mistaken policy from folly: &#8220;To qualify as folly for this inquiry, the policy adopted must meet three criteria: it must have been perceived as counter-productive in its own time, not merely by hindsight. … Secondly a feasible alternative course of action must [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/trump-and-the-march-of-folly">Trump and the march of folly</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>A proposal for Project 2029: Medicare Advantage for All</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat On this Indigenous Peoples/Columbus Day holiday, there is no new economic news, so let me roll out something I have been thinking about for quite a while; namely, how to migrate from out current patchwork health care insurance system to a better, universal system. Such a migration is very popular. [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/a-proposal-for-project-2029-medicare-advantage-for-all">A proposal for Project 2029: Medicare Advantage for All</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>A Positive Rating for Socialism</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/a-positive-rating-for-socialism</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In the last few months, Pres. Trump has taken on Iran and fumbled it rather badly. This does not mean Iran has been beating the United States during its attacks on Iran. There has been substantial damage to Iran. The retaliation coming from Iran is more danger getting through the Straits of Hormuz. Gasoline and [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/a-positive-rating-for-socialism">A Positive Rating for Socialism</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Trade in Goods and Services &#8211; August 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, August 2026 Trade Deficit Rose 10.8% in August after July’s 30.4% Jump, Implying a 3.14% Hit to Q3 GDP r.j. sigmund: Our trade deficit rose by 13.7% in August as the value of our exports increased but the value of our imports increased by nearly four times as [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Trump undermines U.S. national security and works for Russia. Why do Republicans continue to protect him as he does it?&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Trump with regard to Eastern Europe has taken a different stance after years of the United States and Europe supporting Ukraine and its stance to remain an independent nation. This comes after the Russian aggressor stated its strategic objectives in Ukraine involves subjugating the country to war, preventing its Western integration, and retaining territorial gains [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Medicare Traditional or Advantage</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Perhaps, I can be enlightened as to why these counties are losing MA plans as this is a government program. In reality. you take one, you have to take them all. You do not get to pick and choose for Medicare. This is where the Gov. should step in and lay down requirements to be [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-60</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>As for Trump and Hegseth, their whole schtick is making a fetish of cruelty. Hasan won&#8217;t be their first public execution. They&#8217;ve murdered hundreds on the high seas, accusing them without evidence of smuggling drugs while in fact preparing the way for a putsch in Venezuela designed get their greedy hands on the oil and [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>New Deal Democrat&#8217;s Weekly Indicators for October 5 &#8211; 9 </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha.The paradigm that has been supreme for the last few months continues. On the one hand, there are soaring AI related stock prices fueling consumer spending. On the other hand, there are also sharply higher interest rates and gas prices. So far, AI has been ‘winning.’</p>
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		<title>Last week’s major revisions to personal income: comparing the source data</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat While we are waiting for new data releases to start back up, let me follow up on the surprise revisioins last week to personal income, that took real personal income for declining for over a year to an almost relentless rise. So shocking was this reversal that for the first [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The Asset-Price/Quantity Conundrum: Supply, Demand, Stocks, Flows</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Roth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8211; by Steve Roth @ Wealth Economics There are two Very Big Differences between markets for goods and services and markets for (financial) assets, that should throw devotees of supply-demand graphs into conniption fits. They don’t seem to be widely considered. Standard-issue supply-and-demand graphs are all about flows. The spending flow (demand) drives the production [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>When Your Boat or You are Used Up</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Death, euthanasia and consumption by The One Handed Economist Last week, we killed another boat. It was my third. We “killed” these boats by taking them to the recycling center (another euphemism) where they were crushed by machines so the wood could go to the incinerator. Thus, we can also say that the boats are [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Gain-of-function virus research</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>One of the conspiracy theories about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is that the pandemic started from a lab that was engineering a gain-of-function coronavirus. None of the data on the virus genome sequence supports this theory, but lack of evidence rarely extinguishes conspiracy mongering. I haven’t thought seriously about gain-of-function research in a [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>What the Nation Can Expect After Midterms if Repubs . . .</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This is a copy and paste to Angry Bear. It is a good piece. I do I like to share with readers what comes to me via emails (Outlook) from time to time. Also, much of my time has been spent talking to and providing information to the Veterans Administration. Time spent explaining to them [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>One thing to keep in Mind with New Deal democrat&#8217;s Commentary on AI . . .</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>more likely than not . . . Without the building of AI data centers, the United States would be on the verge of recession. AB: &#8220;The US economy right now: AI vs. everything else&#8220;  &#8211; by New Deal democrat Let’s wrap up this week of limited economic data by looking at perhaps the most prevalent [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Will Trump last Two More Years or Leave?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Office Hours: How Long Will He Last? And what will cause Trump to leave office? &#8211; Robert Reich There was 800 comments on this commentary by Robert Reich. My opinion? He will not leave. He will try to overthrow the government and stay in office. The House and Senate will sit there and debate. What [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Software engineer who led the development of the onboard flight software for NASA’s Apollo missions died.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Margaret Hamilton was mostly responsible for developing the software recognizing higher priority needs of Apollo while landing on the Moon. The programing would drop lesser needs to handle the more serious needs without jeopardizing Apollo 11. An interesting concept. Margaret Hamilton 1936–2026 Aviation Circle: The aviation and space world has lost one of its great [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Yes Virginia, consumers pay for tariffs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>“On October 6, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published an article to its Liberty Street Economics blog that included a chart showing that President Donald Trump’s tariffs directly led to a higher inflation rate and that without those tariffs, consumer goods prices would have declined. Through October 7, most major news organizations had [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>New jobless claims continue near historical lows; plus the “quick and dirty” forecast, and an important comparison vs. long term unemployment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat Let’s take our regular weekly look at jobless claims. Plus, this week I want to make a statement about jobless claims vs. long term unemployment. First, initial jobless claims declined -2,000 to 197,000. Aside from 2 weeks in 2018, the only time prior to the pandemic that initial claims were [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Wage suppression in 10 charts Part 3</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This last three of the charts as presented by Angry Bear of the Economic Policy Institute explaining who is being paid more in the Labor Market. All three sections present an excellent review of the issues. If you missed the other two sections, you can catch up on them here: &#8220;Wage suppression in 10 charts [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/wage-suppression-in-10-charts-part-3">Wage suppression in 10 charts Part 3</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Employment September 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Briefly, nothing really to get excited about in this Labor Statistics Report. Of course it depends upon who is reporting it. Few changes in the Establishment Report and little change in the Household Survey Report. &#8220;The Employment Situation,&#8221; September 2026 Both nonfarm payroll employment (+29,000) and the unemployment rate (4.2 percent) changed little in September, [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/employment-september-2026">Employment September 2026</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-59</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Today’s U.S. military structures itself around assumptions of short, decisive wars. Munitions stockpiles are limited. Preparation for reconstituting a highly skilled professional force is minimal. Maintenance of reserve weapons and equipment is poor. These policies trade long-term staying power for short-term lethality and presuppose that the United States can end a conflict quickly by destroying [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-59">Quote of the day</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Behold our Ozymandias</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/behold-our-ozymandias</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://angrybearblog.com/?p=194202</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;A few times I’ve noted that Trump started moving aggressively toward foreign policy and war just as his power and popularity were diminishing at home. That’s when the Greenland fury started, that’s when he went after Venezuela, that’s when, on the sugar high of Venezuela, he launched his catastrophically consequential war on Iran. No one [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/behold-our-ozymandias">Behold our Ozymandias</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Partisan divide in views of press freedom???</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The original comment was &#8220;Partisan divide in views of press freedom appears.&#8221; Itis the lead off comment on the piece &#8220;U.S. Media Freedom: Perceptions Hit New Low&#8221; as featured on Gallup late September 2026. Even with a Tr__P in office who wates no time in threating various things in the United States, the perception of [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/partisan-divide-in-views-of-press-freedom">Partisan divide in views of press freedom???</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Power of a Few in America</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Can we reverse the power shift that began four decades ago? This is the biggest question lurking behind the midterm campaigns. The preceding question by Robert Reich asks an important and deep question about power and who has it. Unless people begin to vote for others than Tr__p and those similar to Tr__p, we will [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/the-power-of-a-few-in-america">The Power of a Few in America</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>September vehicle sales send mixed message</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://angrybearblog.com/?p=194275</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat One piece of economic data that got reported late last week that is worth following up on is the monthly tally of heavy truck (red) and car sales (blue, right scale): Both of these are leading indicators, but heavy truck sales are less noisy, and generally signal first (although, like [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/september-vehicle-sales-send-mixed-message">September vehicle sales send mixed message</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Wage suppression in 10 charts Part 2&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Too many interesting charts in this EPI piece. I am breaking it into three sections. This section discusses management and Labor. In the end Labor loses out to Management. Graph #4 details a distinct difference between the &#8220;Bottom 90% of wage earners&#8221; and the paid corporate managers and professionals. Wage earners typically has direct input [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/wage-suppression-in-10-charts-part-2">&#8220;Wage suppression in 10 charts Part 2&#8221;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Leading indicators from the September Employment report continue positive trends</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/leading-indicators-from-the-september-employment-report-continue-positive-trends</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat We’ve entered our post-employment report lull in new economic data, so let’s take a further look at the leading indicators contained in that report. Generally speaking, this includes the more cyclical sectors like construction and manufacturing, and goods production in general; real aggregate nonsupervisory payrolls; and, during expansions leading up [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/leading-indicators-from-the-september-employment-report-continue-positive-trends">Leading indicators from the September Employment report continue positive trends</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Simply Put</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken Melvin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In the early days, murder and theft were the more common means of acquiring wealth.&#160; Wealth being the goose that laid golden eggs.&#160; All the wealthy need do was exploit cheap labor, and Voilà!&#160; Which they did, and still do.&#160;&#160; Along the way, their entitlement to do so was attested to by gods and scripture; [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/simply-put">Simply Put</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Wage Cost: Suppression, Inequity, and Worker&#8217;s Share</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/wage-cost-suppression-inequity-and-workers-share</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Economic Policy Institute Part 1 Wages for typical workers have been largely suppressed since the 1970s. The following 10 charts will tell the story. The historical context of workers’ wage trajectories since the 1970s will be outlined below. I will present three or 4 at a time so as to not overwhelm the discussion. For [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/wage-cost-suppression-inequity-and-workers-share">Wage Cost: Suppression, Inequity, and Worker&#8217;s Share</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Five Fast Trains in Italy, China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I had the opportunity to ride s fast train out of Shanghai south to another city (which I forget). It was a 90-minute ride and had stops along the way. Quiet and no clickety clacks. the track was seamless. The seats were comfortable in 2nd class. It is worth taking a train ride in China [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/five-fast-trains-in-italy-china-japan-and-saudi-arabia">Five Fast Trains in Italy, China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Economically weighted ISM indexes for October show a broader, but even more inflationary, expansion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://angrybearblog.com/?p=194203</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p> &#8211; by New Deal democrat I think if I ever decided to cut back my online writing about the economy to the bare bones, it would be two posts a month. The first of the two posts would be this one, because the economically weighted ISM manufacturing + services indexes continue to be the best [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/economically-weighted-ism-indexes-for-october-show-a-broader-but-even-more-inflationary-expansion">Economically weighted ISM indexes for October show a broader, but even more inflationary, expansion</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;If you’re arguing, you’re losing. Trump is arguing&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What voters didn&#8217;t know in 2024, Paul Krugman says they do know in 2026 as they are paying a lot for the failure of the Tr__p dynasty of stupid. The gamble with Iran blew up in his face. He was thinking this would be a short excursion in the Middle East. How many US soldiers [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/if-youre-arguing-youre-losing-trump-is-arguing">&#8220;If you’re arguing, you’re losing. Trump is arguing&#8221;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Time change argle-bargle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Personally, I find the time change brouhaha silly. If you live in the northern hemisphere, there’s just less daylight in the winter months. You can play with the clocks, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are 24 hours in the day and fewer of those hours will be sunlit in winter. If people [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/time-change-argle-bargle">Time change argle-bargle</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>One Observation of Campaign Expenditures</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Haskell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://angrybearblog.com/?p=194182</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>At times, it is akin to reading the Sunday funnies in the newspapers or maybe it is the &#8220;Believe It or Not&#8221; section. I was doing my regular Sunday morning reads when I ran across this piece on &#8220;Above the Law&#8221; by Johnathan Wolf. Interesting title; &#8220;How Many Times Can Trump Pick Rural Republicans’ Pockets [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/one-observation-of-campaign-expenditures">One Observation of Campaign Expenditures</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for September 28 &#8211; October 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NewDealdemocrat]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160;&#8211; by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. When looking at the economy, you have to put your ideological priors aside. Most of us feel that T—-p is inevitably going to crash the economy, in between his stupendous incompetence and mafia bust-out tactics. But the data says that is [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/new-deal-democrats-weekly-indicators-for-september-28-october-2">New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for September 28 &#8211; October 2</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Insurers, Cutting Medicare Advantage plans for 2027 and More Realignment for Consumers</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/insurers-cutting-medicare-advantage-plans-for-2027-and-more-realignment-for-consumers</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Not going to be much fun for people on Medicare Advantage . It is going to be another turbulent sign-up period for MA customers. They will be shuffling around to different plans as various plans cut what they are offering in each plan. It may include canceling plans also. And beneficiaries can expect greater complexity [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/insurers-cutting-medicare-advantage-plans-for-2027-and-more-realignment-for-consumers">Insurers, Cutting Medicare Advantage plans for 2027 and More Realignment for Consumers</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Trump’s Hail Mary pass</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/trumps-hail-mary-pass</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joel Eissenberg]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[US/Global Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU oil reserves]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Trump bullied the EU into releasing 100 million barrels of oil from its reserves over the next four months. Will that bring down gas prices in the US significantly in time for midterms? The math says no. “Europe is putting roughly 820,000 barrels a day on the market. “The world used about 104 million barrels [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/trumps-hail-mary-pass">Trump’s Hail Mary pass</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>Quote of the Day, 2012 Edition, Part 1</title>
		<link>https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-2012-edition-part-1</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ken Houghton]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trump]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I wasted much of the afternoon. That&#8217;s not unusual, but this time it lead me down the rabbit hole of 2012. Instaputz told everyone, but the useless Democratic Party consultants didn&#8217;t listen and cheered: Monday, July 09, 2012 Republicans still heart The Donald. Willard may be the nominee, but the GOP&#8217;s heart and soul &#8212; [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/quote-of-the-day-2012-edition-part-1">Quote of the Day, 2012 Edition, Part 1</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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		<title>How Good are the Flocks?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angry Bear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://angrybearblog.com/?p=194132</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[<p>I think the jury is still out on this issue, have not heard or seen much about them on TV or in the neighborhood news. I am sure we will eventually hear something. &#8220;Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows,&#8221; Futurism, FBI Data Shows These types of surveillance devices for [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2026/10/how-good-are-the-flocks">How Good are the Flocks?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://angrybearblog.com">Angry Bear</a>.</p>
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