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No, We’re Not Inventing 1973 as the Starting Point for “Income Inequality” Stats

Judging from the comments in a previous post, you’d think that Dave Howden made up the idea that income inequality starting rising in 1973. No, that’s the low point, using the Piketty-Saez figures. Howden didn’t pick that number, progressives typically do when quoting figures. Just from a quick one that I googled: As Isabel Sawhill […]

Check Your Hurricane Privilege

A lot of people were having fun with this study: People don’t take hurricanes as seriously if they have a feminine name and the consequences are deadly, finds a new groundbreaking study. Female-named storms have historically killed more because people neither consider them as risky nor take the same precautions, the study published in the […]

Audio Book Bask

What do they do in audio books that have a lot of tables (with numbers, I don’t mean furniture)? I ask because I know an author who is doing an audio book for his self-published book, and it contains–you guessed it–a lot of tables, and these are fairly important to his argument.

Madoff on Social Security Bask

Hey kids: I’ve heard people claim that Bernie Madoff referred to Social Security as a Ponzi scheme–and he should know! However, I can’t find an actual citation. There are a billion articles of people talking about SS and Madoff, but I can’t find Madoff himself talking about it. Any help?

How Is This Not Traveling?

I realize there are more important things to argue about, but people are citing this as the danger of early celebration. How is that guy not traveling? He clearly takes three full steps while carrying the ball.

Even More Inventory Scenarios

Tel and I have been going back and forth in the comments… He pointed out that if inventory grows at 2% forever (along with final sales), then GDP growth is a constant 2%. But be careful, what’s going on is that a constant 2% growth in inventories implies a constant 2% growth in the *change* […]

WordPress Bask

(For newcomers, “bask” = “blog ask” because free bloggers don’t beg!) I’m not sure when it happened–it may have been when my web guy updated to a newer version of WordPress–but if you try to use the Category pull-down menu (off to the left) you’ll see that it doesn’t work. It used to take you […]