The New York Times surveyed 170 members of the American Political Science Association’s Presidents and Executive Politics section to rank all American presidents and they placed Trump dead last. Of course, if we just look at the scholars who are…
Yearly Archives: 2018
If not #Pence2018, we are likely to get Pelosi in 2019 and that would be undemocratic.
Trump’s record-breaking historic unpopularity is dragging down the Republican Party and it is undoubtedly too late to stop his effect on the coming midterm election. If Trump stays, he energizes and mobilizes Democrats and demoralizes moderate Republicans with his incompetence,…
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Artificial intelligence will dominate more and more of society. Will it be racist and sexist?
Brian Resnick explains research that our systems of artificial intelligence have learned to perpetuate racism and sexism just like people do. “Many people think machines are not biased,” Princeton computer scientist Aylin Caliskan says. “But machines are trained on human…
#Pence2018: Because Donald Trump is toxically unpopular already, and more bad stuff is on the horizon.
The Center for Politics and Ipsos surveyed Americans and asked them to rate all the presidents who have served since the 1950s. They confirm all the other polls showing that Trump is historically unpopular, particularly given that he has only…
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#Pence2018: Because Trump’s personal life is so dirty it is illegal!
The Wall Street Journal (the relatively reputable sister company to Fox News) has now broken two stories about porn stars who were paid off by Trump supporters during his presidential campaign shortly before the 2016 election to keep them quiet…
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Gross Output (GO) vs. Gross Domestic Expenditure (GDE) vs. Gross Domestic Transactions (GDT) and why we need to use readily available banking system data to estimate GDT
Mark Skousen is part of the Austrian economics heterodox tradition, and he promoted a measure called Gross Output (GO) as a measure of the economy. Skousen likes to quote Steve Forbes who called it “revolutionary” and such “a big deal”…
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Beer Companies Don’t Care About The Median Drinker
Updated December 20, 2018 Mark Kleiman has done some of the most insightful policy analysis of illegal drugs available. He argues that home grown marijuana should be legal (and polls show that the majority of Americans have agreed for some…
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