R World (Ron Davison muses aloud)
04 June 2024
Women Will Decide the 2024 Election
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In 2020, if only women voted, Biden would have won the states 5 to 1 and the electoral college nearly 3 to 1. Women. You will decide this el...
31 May 2024
America's Great Institutional Recession
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In 1984, over 60% of Americans were satisfied with democracy. Today, that number has plummeted to just 28%, reflecting a deep disillusionmen...
14 May 2024
Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago? Maybe if You Were in a Coma and Blissfully Unaware
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Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? In May of 2020? The United States first reached 1,000 daily COVID-19 deaths in early April 202...
13 May 2024
Entering a Global Pandemic With a President Who Had Unprotected Sex with a Porn Star - High On the List of Poor Decisions Made by Americans
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Stormy Daniels' testimony is a reminder that we went into a global pandemic with a president who had unprotected sex with a porn star. W...
03 May 2024
The Longest Streak of Unemployment Rate at or Below 4% That You Can Remember
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You have to go back more than half a century to find a longer streak of months with unemployment at or below 4%. Or as the memes and journal...
18 April 2024
Even Deep History is Not That Far Away
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The Dunbar Number is 150. It is an estimate of the number of people one might have in a social circle. If we go back 150 lifetimes - assumin...
05 April 2024
Time to Move Beyond Blase to Bedazzled at Biden's Policies and the Biden Economy
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The Biden presidency is setting a bar for economic performance that has never before been hit and is unlikely to be matched again. This is n...
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04 April 2024
Lincoln's 44 Days Without War
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In 1861, March 4, Lincoln was inaugurated for his 1st term as president April 12, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, officially beginning th...
02 April 2024
Regret in the UK - Post-BREXIT GDP Slowdown and the Case for Globalization
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It was the British and Dutch who became the wealthiest communities in the world by pioneering globalization. BREXIT was a decisive vote to w...
Communities that Least Understand the Economy Are Most Likely to Find Trump Persuasive
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One of the most underreported facts of the modern world is simply this: communities that know how to create great paying jobs overwhelmingly...
29 March 2024
The Land Battle for States Gives Way to the Cultural Battle for Nations - the Modern World as a Lava Lamp
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Imagine a map with all its neat lines and borders, like a giant puzzle where each piece is a different country, clearly marked and separate....
28 March 2024
The Religious Right's Pyrrhic Victory (Or, The Cost of Using Trump As A Representative)
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Trump began selling Bibles this week to raise money for his trial for using campaign funds to pay for sex with a porn star. There is nothing...
27 March 2024
Kahneman On Substituting Easy Questions for Uesful Questions
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Daniel Kahneman died this week. He won a Noble Prize in Economics made remarkable by the fact that not only did he not have a degree in econ...
25 March 2024
Benjamin Franklin's Power over Power
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Benjamin Franklin was involved with two great shifts in power: the creation of the world's first modern democracy and experiments that ...
23 March 2024
Money Saving Tip - Hacking into Advertising
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Here's a money-saving tip. Next time you see an ad for an enticing product, just re-enact the ad. Skip the product altogether and go st...
It Is No Coincidence - How the Loss of Aspiring Novelists Has Undermined the Power and Purpose of the Daily Newspaper
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Once upon a time, the first draft of history - our newspaper articles that let us know each day about what was happening - was written by as...
20 March 2024
The Whimsy and Magic of Physico-theology
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Physico-theology, an idea that gained prominence in the 17th and 18th centuries, refers to a theological doctrine that seeks to demonstrate ...
19 March 2024
Trump Threatens a Bloodbath
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Trump warned that if he is not elected there will be a bloodbath. A clear threat to again resort to violence as when he lost in 2020. Later ...
18 March 2024
California - land of the most successful capitalists in the history of the world
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At today's market close, the 50 most valuable companies around the world had a combined market cap of $27.9 trillion. Portion of total f...
15 March 2024
The Stark and Persistent Labor Market Difference Between Democratic and Republican Presidencies
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Those of you who find this kind of thing interesting might find this fascinating. What is good? A negative number. It shows that the unemplo...
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