The Question? How Much Does College Really Cost? – by Phillip Levine EconoFact The Issue: Media coverage of the skyrocketing cost of college is pervasive. Sticker prices approaching $100,000 are jarring for anyone, but particularly for those with limited financial resources. And the sticker shock is not limited to the most selective private universities. Since the mid 90s, sticker […]

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Dear Coalition of Assholes, By hook or by crook, twice now you have elected a despicable bastard president. The first time brought a nightmare of chaotic incompetence. By far the worst American presidency ever. This second is poised to deliver the coup de grace to our democracy, to our once great Nation. What the hell […]

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Scenes from the last employment report of Joe Biden’s Presidency  – by New Deal democrat Friday’s jobs report was an excellent one for Joe Biden’s Presidential term to end on. In the past 4 years, 17 million jobs have been created. Even if we take out 2021 as being a COVID rebound year, in the […]

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– by Bill McBride CalculatedRisk Likely Sales up Year-over-year for 3rd Consecutive Month NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to December 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not available). This is the second look at several early reporting local markets in December. I’m […]

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Pete Hesgeth, Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, thinks that Fort Liberty should go back to its previous name, Fr. Bragg. “Fort Bragg, one of the largest Army bases in the US, was named for Braxton Bragg, a general in the Confederacy and slave owner who lost nearly every battle he was involved in during the […]

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r.j. sigmund:Toxic PFAs impacting Americans’ drinking water via treated wastewater: Study — Nearly 7 percent of Americans may be exposed to hazardous levels of “forever chemicals” through treated municipal wastewater, a new study has found. These approximately 23 million people may be consuming these toxic compounds, also known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in their […]

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“Forty broken promises” from his 2016 tour of duty as the President plus three more over the next four years which will fall by the wayside too. Already learning about the recent promises which can not be kept or would result in worst conditions. What promises did h make and then backed away from after […]

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Maggie Mahar would cite Phillip Longman and his book the Best Care Anywhere when she was on her own blog and also at Angry Bear afterwards. Mr. Longman has a history of detailing the healthcare given by the Veterans Administration. His proposal then was commercial healthcare should be replaced by a similar organization such as […]

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I am reading the most recent The Guardian article about a new Canadian Prime Minister. The present Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, resigned as head of the Liberal party. His resignation set in motion a leadership race against the backdrop of a looming general election. An election which will be held amid political turmoil perhaps triggered by Donald […]

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This post is mostly an effort to summarise this interesting but long article in The Washington Post. The TL TL/DR summary of the article is: archaea bacteria in rumens (one of the stomachs of cattle) produce methane which is a major contributor to global warming. Genetic modification of competing bacteria called duedenibacillus (which does not […]

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Most of the media finger-pointing by Trump and his cult has been about sullying Gavin Newsom as a presidential candidate in 2028. Trump and Fox don’t actually care about the reason for the fires (anthropogenic climate change) or how to mitigate the consequences. Over at jabberwocking.com, Kevin Drum has a long but excellent summary of […]

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Findings We (The Lancet) estimated 64 260 deaths (95% CI 55 298–78 525) due to traumatic injury during the study period, suggesting the Palestinian MoH under-reported mortality by 41%. The annualised crude death rate was 39·3 per 1000 people (95% CI 35·7–49·4), representing a rate ratio of 14·0 (95% CI 12·8–17·6) compared with all-cause mortality in 2022, even […]

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I am running late on posting for tomorrow. This piece by Merrill Goozner of GoozNews is one half of his piece on pharmaceuticals. The article is entitled “A plan to make drugs affordable for all.” The link is GoozNews above. You can read the entire article, scroll down to “Trust Bust,” or just click on […]

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– by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The big changes this week were the sharp increases in long term interest rates, along with similarly sharp increases in commodity prices and the US$. Some of this is due to a feeling that the economy is running “hotter” than recently thought, […]

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Summations: “Real gross domestic product (GDP): increased at an annual rate of 3.1 percent in the third quarter of 2024, according to the ‘third’ estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP increased 3.0 percent. Compared to the second quarter, the acceleration in real GDP in the third […]

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Today the Department of Labor released the final jobs report of Joe Biden’s presidency. The nation added 256,000 new jobs in December, a number significantly higher than economists expected. That brings the total number of jobs created under Biden to 16.6 million and makes Biden’s the only administration in history to have created jobs every […]

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All around the world, we are seeing heightened uneasiness; stress on governments, economies, and societies. What’s going on? A lot has changed these past few decades, some of which we know of, possibly understand a little. There may be others we are not yet aware of. We are learning more about global warming (a.k.a, climate […]

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Sentenced – by Joyce Vance Civil Discourse And just like that, what was once thought to be impossible happened. Donald Trump was sentenced on the 34 counts of conviction against him in Manhattan. There were no surprises. Trump did not demonstrate remorse like many defendants do at this point. He didn’t apologize for the harm […]

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‘Beyond nuts’: MAGA billionaire’s ‘doozy’ Financial Times editorial draws instant mockery There are ~ 800 billionaires in the US, twice than what exists in China. The latter of which I think is odd. Apparently, billionaires are given great latitude, going as far as saying ridiculous things. Peter Thiel shows his oddity. Is the media that […]

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An archetypal first world problem is that we sites have (all?) decided to add two factor authentication (as the earlier first world problem of requiring irritating passwords with capital letters and special! symbols doesn’t work well enough anymore). This didn’t use to be a problem when they offered to send the 6-digit one time code […]

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