There is a lot of interest on blogs and discussion forums about the cheapest nations in the world to visit, but I found no good hard data on the internet. This is a bizarre hole in the world’s collective knowledge…
Yearly Archives: 2018
What are the cheapest countries to visit? See the Travel Cost Index.
Posted in Globalization & International
Census updates median income data
There is a new Census Bureau map showing the median annual household income (averaged over the past five years) shows where America is richer and what areas are poorer. [Source: U.S. Census Bureau] It is particularly interesting to see the…
Posted in Medianism
Concentrated roadway power
Updated 12/12/2023 Cars killed 42,060 Americans in 2020 according to an estimate from the National Safety Council. That is more than were killed by guns in recent years. Driving is the most dangerous thing most Americans do every day and…
Posted in Public Finance
Mind the gap in life expectancy WITHIN America
Updated 6/6/2023 We read a lot about the growing political divide in America and we hear a lot of commentary about the two Americas in terms of income inequality. But a bigger inequality problem is the gap in life expectancy. …
Posted in Health
The expected value of potential lives lost during atomic testing
Rob Reid wrote a great explanation of the horrible risk taken during the Manhattan Project, when American nuclear scientists took a chance estimated at one-in-three million that the first atomic test would create a chain reaction that would ignite the…
Good Guys with guns vs. Bad Guys with guns
Updated: 8/7/2019 I’m a pragmatic pacifist who wishes to minimize violence and I accept that some violence might be necessary to accomplish this. Of course, everyone says that they want to minimize violence, so how is a pacifist like me…
Posted in Violence & Peace
A public conspiracy to protect pharmaceutical profits at taxpayer expense
Every so often I get requests to sign a petition supporting various business interests. The petitions are promoted by fly-by-night “organizations” that are fronts for lobbyists like EconomistLetter.com. Lately I’ve been getting emails from ConcernedEconomists.org that are worried about the pharmaceutical industry’s…
Posted in Health, Public Finance
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