An interesting phenomenon occurred from 2020 – 2023. Hourly wage labor experienced increasing wages during the pandemic. A recent NBER report by David Autor, Arindrajit Dube, and Annie McGrew susply the data creating a foundation for the Labor v Salary words. To display I provided an additional graph besides the one shown by The Bulwark’s […]
In 2006 Joel Garreau wrote “300 Million and Counting” in the Smithsonian. It was then we were at a replacement rate of 2.01. The nation was barely replacing itself. November 20, 1967, the population of the United States passed 200 million. It had taken ~29 years to add 100 million more people to the US […]
Trump has promised to deport >10 million undocumented people living in the US. He justifies this by saying they are dangerous criminals. In fact, immigrants commit crimes at a *lower* rate than US citizens. He has announced his intention to deploy US troops in US streets to capture and detain people who are claimed to […]
A typical serving of beef could eat up an entire day’s carbon budget. Maybe it is time to start thinking about other sources of protein and smaller cuts of meat. “Beef consumption is a global problem and meatwashing is making it worse” – presented by Lloyd Alter Carbon Upfront Jonathan Foley of Project Drawdown looks […]
I believe this to be self-explanatory. President Biden lowered premiums and expanded eligibility for ACA Healthcare. The new president never cared for the ACA and will do whatever he can to cause it to fail. One sure path is to make it expensive so people drop out. Read on . . . When the ACA […]
– by New Deal democrat Yesterday’s report on existing home sales indicated, at least for one month, a pause or even reversal in the previous trend of abating price increases and increased inventory. While existing home sales are not nearly so important to the economy as new home sales, to the extent that home buyers […]
This piece is recent enough to have some relevance. I suspect, the relevance will change once Trump and his minions take office and in an unusual way. In 2023, the United States led the ranking of the countries with the highest military spending of ~ 916 billion U.S. dollars. This amounted to 3.5 percent of […]
Interesting piece by Kareem. I guess it is not to be taken as unusual for Pres Trump to come out and sue the news media. He is striking back at his antagonists and evening up the score with them. Whether he wins or not is not a concern. He would like to win but if […]
The United States emerged in the 20th century after two world wars as the world’s sole superpower. It further cemented its political and economic hegemony with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But like all empires throughout history, the American empire has a finite half-life, and its final decline is in full view. For some […]
Musk is on the Nation’s Dole. There is much he has done with the help of government funding. Now he wishes to bring efficiency to government. The largest items he wishes to attack on his list includes veterans’ healthcare, childcare, college grants, NASA, and housing assistance. That is going big with veterans especially when Trump […]