AFTER the country has had an ELECTION (which is supposed to "settle" the political DEBATE of the previous several months, *certain* states must be required to submit alternate slates and the country have another "debate"? Under what grounds? what rules of "evidence"? Who's

🆕 Real median household income was $80,610 in 2023, a 4.0% increase from 2022. More at census.gov/newsroom/press… #CensusData #Income

The US now produces 50% more oil than Saudi Arabia

Let's recall that Megyn Kelly led a question during a debate reciting all of the bad things that Trump said about women in this exact manner.

Of all the heroes on 9-11, Todd Beamer is the one I think of most. His courage, sacrifice, and love of family and country continue to inspire a grateful nation. Here is the transcript of his phone call from United flight 93 before he and others prevented the terrorists from

A big ol' 😅 from social scientists erupted.

At 50 seconds in, she says, "the worst" part of the night was.... the thing she did as a debate moderator leading up to 2016.

Good schools significantly drive up the value of the asset constituting most of retirees' wealth- value they can easily extract; working people & parents directly fund their retirement. So can anyone explain to me why local bond initiatives to fund schools exclude retirees?

I think Felix is being nice when he says Vance is "engaging" with the research. But a thread worth reading, to whit: the 2018 tariffs resulted in substantial price increases.

Illuminating.

$900,000 per supposed job saved (before retaliatory action is taken). That is... a bad deal. We're better off just handing people cash.

Stephen Miller is one of the most odious people in politics, and the idea of denaturalization is not only unconstitutional, it's morally rotten.

The Ballad of JD Vance. "On the eve of my election, I say to my reflection, God, please spare me more rejection, cause my peers they criticize me, & my ex wives all despise me, try to put it all behind me, but my redneck past is nipping at my heels." youtu.be/Yr_s6-Q7f00?si…

*I will NOT joke about economic illiteracy.* *I will NOT joke about economic illiteracy.* *I will NOT joke about economic illiteracy.*

I have a perfect script.

Utterly obsessed with this UCL researcher who won an Ig Nobel for showing that “Blue Zones” where people supposedly live well past 100 at unusual rates are actually just full of clerical errors and people committing pension fraud ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/…

No one is surprised in the least. But it is still a terrible stain on the country when unscrupulous characters get anywhere near the levers of power.

Econ 101 isn’t "the final answer." This graph represents millions upon millions of observations about the real world. "Demand curves slope downward and decreasing supply increases prices" is observed everywhere. Why is THIS the point of argument?