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Another week, another mass shooting. Last week stemmed from bigotry coming out the of the white replacement theory. This week is just some eighteen-year-old venting his rage (I guess) on poor elementary age children. My last post focused on last week’s deplorable event arising from the white replacement theory pushed by Fox Entertainment (or at…
When you mix gun availability with hate speech on Fox News you get…the Buffalo mass shooting. We are getting more and more of these mass shootings. I know the pandemic has worsened people’s ability to cope but we already had a simmering level of craziness and violence. Add on top of that the looseness of…
So, three months have passed and the brutal war is still grinding on. The Ukrainians have been extraordinary in holding off the Russians and really have surprised me at how well they have done. Of course, I’m no military expert but in the early days, I was under the impression that everybody expected Russia to…
It’s been a while so it is time for an update on the coronavirus. The US has quietly been undergoing a tiny surge, nothing like back in January or February with the first Omicron, but there is a surge going on in the Northeast and Midwest. Note on sources of data: For graphics concerning continents…
This is the last of a series on the latest articles on capitalism…I think. I might have one more. I started with the history that began with Milton Friedman’s call for profit maximization for shareholders and ending with the fact that shareholders have scoffed up all of the money generated from increased productivity. Next, I…
As economist David Autor (a member of our research team) told the New York Times, “Most people’s fear of technology is really a fear of capitalism, what the markets will do with the technology.” “Automation Isn’t the Biggest Threat to US Factory Jobs”, Wired, Anna Waldman-Brown, May 1, 2022 In the last post, I provided…
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