Vox.com has a new series called The Goods whose first article has the kind of journalistic quality (or lack thereof) you would expect in a series that seems to be purely about product placement. The article, by Kaitlyn Tiffany, is about…
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Fact checking Vox’s new product placement series. (They blew it on Pedialyte.)
Posted in Development, Health
Income growth for different age groups in America
The distribution of income deserves more attention. One reason why college seems less affordable is that average real wages for young people have fallen since the 1970s whereas tuition has risen. A lot. Of course, the average college student doesn’t…
Posted in MELI & Econ Stats
Homeownership rates and severity of financial crisis
The St. Louis Fed produced the above graph showing that nations with higher homeownership rates were hit harder by the 2007 financial crisis and are still dealing with greater aftereffects today. Nations with the most rental properties like Switzerland and…
Posted in Macro, Real Estate
Republicans hate “Obamacare” but love the policies whereas Democrats love it more than the actual policies deserve
NBC News did an experiment in 2014, four years after Obamacare was enacted. They polled half of their sample of Kentucky voters about what they thought of “Obamacare”, and asked the other half about “Kynect”, the Kentucky implementation of Obamacare.…
Posted in Health
Why is extreme selfishness funny?
Here is a screenshot of a to-do list that the author undoubtedly meant as a joke, but I wonder why some people would post this kind of thing or find it funny. The first point is being spiteful to his…
Posted in Culture, Philosophy and ethics
An epidemic of fake Trump tweets ironically claiming “Fake News”
Michael Cowen’s friends and official spokesmen have been playing the press for months. Rather than Cowen just telling the Mueller investigation what he knows, he and his allies have been constantly tantalizing the press with all sorts of specifics that…
Posted in Pence2018
New bill would require better measures of median income (plus a lot more)
GDP is a measure of total income in a country. For at least the two decades before 1980, American median income grew about as fast as GDP and Americans below the median income saw faster growth than Americans who were…
Posted in Inequality, Medianism
Medianism 