Via Kevin Drum. Presumably this is using personal income. There has been progress towards greater equality in the past half century. The ratio went from 59% up to 73% over this time, but nearly all of the change happened between…
Yearly Archives: 2018
Why are Americans suddenly more interested in gun control? Perhaps because of a 9/11-size spike in gun homicides.
Although I’m a pacifist (and a pragmatic one not a fundamentalist*), I don’t get particularly passionate about gun control because despite the fact that it generally reduces homicides and suicides, because other factors are even more important for reducing homicides. Furthermore,…
Posted in Violence & Peace
Occupational licensing is the new unionization
Back in 2011, which kind of license would cost more money to obtain in New York City, A) a license to practice medicine or B) a license to drive a taxicab? In 2011, a taxi cab license cost over $1 million.…
Posted in Inequality, Labor
#Pence2018: What gay bunnies mean for a Pence administration.
Whereas in 2009 nearly 50% more Americans opposed gay marriage than supported it, as of the latest poll, a mere eight years later, there are nearly twice as many Americans who support gay marriage than those opposed according to Gallop.…
Krugman’s Baby-Sitting Coop
Once upon a time, there were three neighboring families with young children. They all needed babysitting at different times and there was a shortage of reliable professional babysitters in the neighborhood. The neighbors all wanted their children to be able…
Posted in Macro
Why are we so afraid of other nations that can’t even take care of their own shit?
TomDispatch has a great article about the insanity of our military’s spending priorities and the money-grubbing paranoia of the associated defense-industrial complex. It is scary. You gotta read it. At the same time, all rich nations are military allies of…
Posted in Development, Public Finance
#Pence2018 vs Trump tariffs
On Friday I was called in for a TV interview with WLIO about Trump’s tariffs so I put together a few notes for myself that I might as well post. Trump says he will impose a 25 percent tariff on…
Posted in Globalization & International, Pence2018
Medianism 