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Not Equal Sign
America Bingo: Only four states, New York, California, Texas, and Florida, plus Washington, DC have inequality above the national average of .39, indicating both their very large populations, their...
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Debt
Amurrika Front of Drudge: Debt jumps $328B in one day That’s because with the debt ceiling lifted, the Yankee government quit lying ended its series of extraordinary measures to hold the apparent...
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Supply and Demand
New York H/T V-Dare. NYT bashes Unz’s “immigration control via minimum wage hike” proposal, mainly because Unz is motivated by trying to keep Hispanics from flooding into the country. Except they’re...
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Schaeffer’s Number
Amurrika I’m going to re-post something I wrote on AR earlier today. Something which has been bothering me about Schaeffer’s Number and the whole concept, but I haven’t been able to get off the tip of...
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Ball of Confusion
Washington, D.C. Computer World headline and sub-headline: Gates sees software replacing people; Greenspan calls for more H-1Bs Both agree that U.S. secondary education system needs much improvement...
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Negative
Amurrika In spite of some really questionable fluffy duff metrics being classified as GDP recently, and in spite of government spending being as high as ever, don’t forget that it’s counted in GDP ( =...
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The God That Costs
Amurrika I now think like HHH that democratic republicanism is defective by design. Unlike HHH, I’m not so sure that classical monarchy is the solution. However, I couldn’t help but think of this...
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Quinting
USA AFP: Except for rich, Americans’ incomes fell last year (snip) But broken down into quintiles, those in the top 20 percent of incomes saw their money stream grow by 0.9 percent to $166,048 on...
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It’s a Black Thang, Understand.
Chocolate City St. Louis While the crux of subprime mortgage lending and the subsequent collapse was centered on “sand state” Hispanics, locally, because St. Louis hardly has any Hispanics, subprime...
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Blogmeister Echo Syndrome
Albany, New York Me, May 26: I happen to think the left’s real silent goal with higher urban-specific minimum wages is to drive NAMs out of cities, because NAMs tend to low wage jobs whose wages are...
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Newsflash: New York, Washington DC, Boston and Hawaii Are Expensive
USA Because that’s something I would have never been able to guess otherwise.
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Bad Mood
Downtown Moody’s docks the city’s credit rating, because… The agency attributed the St. Louis downgrade to the “city’s weak socioeconomic profile; reliance on earnings taxes which are due for voter...
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Megan McArdle Notices Things
USA Bloomberg: So while initial down payments may not have done much to predict default in individual cases, we could argue that requiring 20 percent down would still have done a lot to prevent so many...
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Be There And Be Square
U-City Anybody going to broach the subject of black people taking on frivolous debt and their propensity not to repay? Crickets.
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All In 191 Years’ Work
Washington, D.C. The total national debt didn’t hit $1 trillion until October 1981. The national debt has increased by that much in the six months since Sir Orange of Cincinnati’s final parting shot....
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Illiquid
Palo Alto, California Bloomberg profiles the fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes suddenly going from a multibillionaire to flat broke, at least on paper. From there, you’ll read something I’ve told...
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German Moral Miracle
Berlin German government 10-year bonds are in negative rate territory. You mean to tell me all those racists and xenophobes in the bond market don’t think that all those Syrians and others that the...
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In Other AFFH News
USA Q: Will a $15/hour minimum wage make it easier or harder for this group to find a job? Progressives, please discuss pic.twitter.com/B75bxcO4QV — Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) July 9, 2016...
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We Were Told There Would Be No Math
Seattle Deceptive headline. Because Seattle’s min-wage isn’t even up to $15 yet. It’s being stair-stepped up to $15 over time. In April 2015, it was raised to $10 or $11, depending, and this research...
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This Will Be On the Test
Your Blogmeister’s Hotel Room “The asteroid is worth $10 quintillion.” The race to the gold star stars…NOW. Considering what this rock is made of, “race to the gold star” is apropos. And this is not...
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Behold the Power of Blogmeister
San Francisco Me, May 26, 2015: I happen to think the left’s real silent goal with higher urban-specific minimum wages is to drive NAMs out of cities, because NAMs tend to low wage jobs whose wages are...
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The Hot Mess Just Doesn’t Compute Anymore
Philadelphia In the old days, two things were true: (1) I had to walk 20 miles each way back and forth to and from school every day, uphill both ways, through a foot of snow the whole way, wearing...
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City Hall Downgrade in the city government’s credit rating. This should make you think about something I wrote here back in November on the day of my posting storm upon my return to blogging.
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Beijing; New York About the NBA-China contretemps. There are even more profound ramifications than even the ones written about above. The main reason why China and the rest of the world has been so...
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Berlin I’ve been following the matter, but not with great interest. But the NYP has weighed in on the matter for Americans, so I’ll provide a little context. Only a minority of Berliners own their...
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