As my posts are usually written just before Budgets happen, I will add a postscript after the Budget To say that much of the media treats Budgets as if the government was a household is not really accurate. Much Budget analysis treats the government as a cash constrained household, such that any change in expected tax revenue is regarded as money the Chancellor has to spend or give away. Most households don’t work like that, because they have the capacity to save and borrow. The government of course finds it much easier to borrow than households. Unfortunately some governments encourage the media’s attitude to Budgets. On this occasion, however, the government’s fiscal rules are medium term, with targets always five years into the future. So there is… [Read More...]

Turkesterone
Turkesterone, a potent phytoecdysteroid found in specific plants, has garnered considerable interest due to its unique biological properties. This steroid-like compound exhibits the potential to boost muscle growth, augment athletic performance, and contribute to overall health and wellness. Significance Of Turkesterone In Health And Fitness Turkesterone’s ability to stimulate anabolic processes has piqued the interest… The post Turkesterone appeared first on Anabolicco. [Read More...]
A New Year in 2022 and New Pharmaceutical pricing, a short Explanation
An early attempt as to explaining the drug market. It is a start and I have to program myself to understand what is said. Brief and down to earth with pictures too! Much of this is a C&P with some editing. Much credit to the authors for giving us this opportunity to understand. Welcoming a […] The post A New Year in 2022 and New Pharmaceutical pricing, a short Explanation appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Theresa May wastes an opportunity to regalvanise her party
The prime minister’s inability to shake up her cabinet highlights the weakness of her position [Read More...]
How the political right has used ‘impartiality’ to first gain political power, and then take over the BBC
The BBC has never been completely independent of the government. But that is no reason to ignore its gradual transformation over the last thirteen years into a media organisation that has become increasingly prone to do the government’s bidding. A process that began out of fear has now become institutionalised through the appointment of a once deputy chairman of a local Conservative party and council candidate as director general, a Conservative party donor deeply involved in party politics as Chairman, and a former Communications Director for Theresa May on the BBC Board. Political appointments have been made to these senior positions at the BBC before, but we have not had a government like this before. A government that is far more prepared to interfere with established institutions… [Read More...]
Bulking Steroids – Best Cycle Dosage Examples
If you are trying to come up with the best bulking steroids cycle for your individual needs, you might find yourself confused by all of the information available today. Here, you can find some excellent options for gaining muscle mass, as well as which you can choose based on your individual tolerance to certain Anabolics or… The post Bulking Steroids – Best Cycle Dosage Examples appeared first on Anabolicco. [Read More...]
Some thoughts on the open v closed divide
It is not as simple as it seems [Read More...]
Bloodlands
Just finished reading “Bloodlands,” a book by Yale historian Timothy Snyder. It was published in 2010, but now has a lengthy afterword that discusses the book’s reception and ties the theme to current events. I was inspired to read this book because of events in Ukraine and I believe that I have a much better […] The post Bloodlands appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
The political economy and worldwide implications of the Inflation Reduction Act in the US
In May last year I wrote about a new bookby Eric Lonergan and Corinne Sawers called Supercharge Me. The book argued, in essence, that economists should stop thinking about carbon taxes as the way to tackle climate change, what we could call the big stick, and instead think about carrots in the form of subsidies and public investment designed to get green industries to a scale where their rapid growth would be inevitable. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is essentially a climate bill passed in the US that does exactly that. It is full of carrots, sometimes open ended carrots, designed to promote greener industries, financed not with carbon taxes but higher corporate taxes and lower drug prices for medicare. As I largely agreed with the central… [Read More...]
The Perfect Cutting Steroids
Competition bodybuilders must do far more than simply gain muscle mass in order to look their best. They must also harden their muscles and develop a toned, vascular look. To do this, many bodybuilders use one of several cutting steroids designed to help them maintain their muscle mass. Popular Cutting Steroids Masteron Although Masteron is not quite… The post The Perfect Cutting Steroids appeared first on Anabolicco. [Read More...]
Coming face to neck with Vladimir Putin
Bagehot remembers several surreal visits to a frozen St Petersburg and a booming Moscow [Read More...]
Adjudication by Fox
Credit Kevin for bold creative thinking. Of course, the privatizing of adjudication was logically next given that state legislatures had long since been farming it all out to ALEC. Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, …, — all the reds. Legislating’s really hard when you can barely read and write. There’s no telling how much state and federal […] The post Adjudication by Fox appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
In comparing prosperity across countries, productivity and inequality are almost everything
Paul Krugman once said that to improve a country’s standard of living over time “productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything”. I want to use a recent Resolution Foundation study to examine a slightly different question, which is what determines differences in prosperity across countries. The answer is very similar, but with an important modification. The Resolution Foundation report by Krishan Shah and Gregory Thwaites compares productivity and (PPP adjusted) incomes per household in the UK with the US, Germany and France, and with France it looks at both 2008 and 2019 so we can look at the comparison over time. But it starts with the following chart which includes many more countries. This plots GDP per hour (productivity) on the horizontal axis against… [Read More...]
Amber Rudd’s resignation throws Theresa May’s government into crisis
The home secretary’s departure could tilt the balance of power in both the cabinet and the party at large [Read More...]
How To Know
History is replete with those times when we got it all catastrophically wrong. Including for sure those times when some deranged soul led a people into the insanity of war; but also those like The Spanish-American War, World War One, The Vietnam War, and The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars where the cues of change were […] The post How To Know appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Why does the current political right find it so hard to learn?
This isn’t a headline from the pre-Truss era, or immediately after the ill-fated Kwarteng budget – see the date. It’s as if they believe Truss was not brought down by the markets but instead by some left-wing plot. That the Mail and Telegraph could print headlines like these so soon after the Kwarteng/Truss debacle might seem extraordinary, but I fear it’s just an extreme example of something I wrote about a few weeks ago, and that is the failure of the Conservative right to learn from its own failures and events generally. This post explores why there seems to be an inability to learn and adapt on the political right in the UK. As Steve Richards emphasised recently, the Conservatives after their catastrophic defeat… [Read More...]
Open thread February 18, 2023
Open thread February 7, 2023, Angry Bear, angrybearblog.com The post Open thread February 18, 2023 appeared first on Angry Bear. [Read More...]
Sounding the death knell for Corbynmania
Labour’s so-so performance in the local elections raises questions about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership [Read More...]
Fiscal reporting at the BBC
The BBC intends to commission reviews on impartiality in various subject areas, and last week it published its first on fiscal policy (taxes, spending, government debt and all that) written by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot. I think it’s a good report, and the BBC’s coverage in this area would be a lot better if its suggestions were widely followed. As I coined the term mediamacro to signify the disconnect between macroeconomic knowledge and what was said in the media, I very much welcome this attempt to bridge that gap. However at the end I want to note two fundamental problems, one of which at least the authors could not avoid. The report starts brilliantly with a chart published by the BBC. Although this just plots ONS… [Read More...]
Some thoughts on the crisis of liberalism—and how to fix it
Liberalism needs nothing less than a great rebalancing if it is to regain its intellectual and political vitality [Read More...]
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