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How many times can we look at the same data and draw unhelpful conclusions. Apparently forever. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-america-divided/education/ Evanston Illinois, the home of Northwestern University, is by any measure a community of above average affluence; yet, as pretty...

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'Pissed', would be more accurate.

Ha ha ha. It pays to keep up with your reading, Jem.

This is not so surprising as it might seem. It is well known that facts have a liberal bias. Trump's warning that Hillary may make use of facts should be taken seriously!

This does not sound like the kind of Free Market Milton Friedman was talking about! What happened.

Not only that, but building codes, in principle, a very good and sometimes necessary thing, have become near perfect examples of regulatory capture.

Friedman was spectacularly right about many things, as we have learned, and just as spectacularly wrong about other things, as we have also learned. I, and others, regard him as the father of trickle down, supply-side economics, though I don't think it's fair to attribute the phrase "trickle...

People are fed up with government. They are tired of regulation and red tape, they are tired of not being able to pay their bills, tired of not being able to find a job that matches their interests and training, they are tired of having their hours cut back just enough so they don't qualify for...

I was disappointed. I was hoping to find out his "plan" for getting Mexico to pay for the Wall -- the wall that's already "ten feet taller". I was also disappointed that he did not just explode, Monty Python style, when Hillary started reeling off her list of all the people he has cheated. But...

From Jem's link updated 47 minutes ago. http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo#now

Opps, did you forget we don't elect the president by popular vote? There is this thing called the electoral 'college'.:sneaky:

You are very much the socialist today. I promise not to tell anyone.

I'm one of the very few here, probably, that agrees completely with Soros re gold. Generally speaking, both investing in gold for the long run and short time-frame trading in gold are based on the "Greater Fool Theory." Although, as Donald Trump well knows, finding a fool greater than oneself...

I am not in Al's fan club. Not only do I think Schiff is perennially wrong about almost everything, but I consider him to be an annoying huckster on the level of a Donald Trump. My particular position with regard to the climate issue is that we don't know yet whether globally the atmosphere...

Ultimately you will come to understand that banks and their regulators can suffer the same misconceptions as yourself, though perhaps not quite so easily as you. We are all fallible, although some have more complete understanding then others. Taken together that's what makes a market function...

The remark is revealing, and at the same time both disturbing and remarkable in its honesty. He has been exceptionally straight forward about the mistakes he has made, i.e., his own fallibility. The final lecture he gave at the CEU was highly interesting to me. (see 'the way forward' video in a...

So, this is at least the third recorded instance in history of a rat swimming toward a sinking ship. The first instance being when Churchhill noted a Tory Rat swimming to the Liberals, and the second being when Eugene McCarthy* noted John Connelly swimming to the Republican Party. ______ Not to...

The debt/GDP ration for the U.S. in 2008 was three times what the Canadian debt/GDP ratio is now. They've got a long way to go to catch up to the U.S. Let's hope, for their sake, they don't. In the U.S. rising household debt was a result of falling real wages with the difference between cost of...

You may be one of the few who regards my politics as orthodox. That makes me smile, because the rest think I'm a flaming communist. Just what is Schiff's time frame? I've always assumed it incorporates between now and when the Sun burns out. Correct me if I wrong, but isn't his message...