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60 years ago New York and Oklahoma had the same life expectancy. The change since doest have much if anything to do with those ethnic differences.

If you feel safer in your gated community more power to you. Its a big country with a lot of variety. Allows everyone to find their place.

There are data. And there are data. A lot of crime data are squishy. Homicide rates much less so. San Francisco homicide rate is on track to be lowest ever. Ever being since the many decades the data have been collected.

Not an anecdote but crime has fallen bigly in recent years in places like New York City, San Francisco and Baltimore. Maybe we can study what is happening in those places. No good post should be without an anecdote, however. I had a chance to chat with my older son this weekend while we...

speaking of unglamorous governance and willingness to keep the nose to the grindstone, that's what it takes to push life expectancy up a little bit each year and what makes the difference between New York and Oklahoma (two states where life expectancy were the same 60 years ago): why have life...

Like DOGE, the idea of surging federal resources into high crime areas is an idea with a great deal of merit. Like DOGE, I suspect this potential merit will go unrealized in favor of the performative stunt. To make either work requires seriousness of purpose and willingness to keep the nose to...

The very old joke is MIT stands for Made in Taiwan.

The business has been delivering for years.

every little bit helps

They are our overfed brothers and sisters. And we need to show compassion and respect as they waddle through their job.

Yeah. The grievance filled grandstander in chief.

Oh and I can now reveal a secret. nsacpi stands for not seasonally adjusted consumer price index, which is what inflation-linked bonds are indexed to. But I think at the end of the day my biggest contribution will turn out to have been to nurture an exceptional child who even at this early...

My career has been in finance (which interestingly is considered a STEM field). Anyhow, my most significant contribution has to do with my role when I was at Barclays Capital (1997-2005) in developing the TIPS market. We had a triad of research, sales and trading. I was mostly on the research...

One thang thethe is NOT is a grandstander. He is profoundly mistaken about a number of thangs but he holds his views sincerely.

True. About half of this country is comfortable in its mediocrity and content to mooch off technological spillovers from the other half.

Y'all should show ICE some compassion. They are our brothers and sisters. And God's children.

among the native-born it is over 90% born in blue states...there is a lot of talent that fails to reach its potential in red states...a shame really

2025 is a continuation of a trend that began with a big drop in 2024...you having a rough day today buddy...maybe time to get an IQ booster?

Blue. They have made progress but it remains way too high. I take encouragement from the improvement they made in 2024 and the fact that murders in 2025 are down another 25% compared to the same period in 2024. Baltimore has problems but they have a mayor who doesn't give up and say that's...

I kind of agree with this as a logical proposition: if antifa was a global terrorist organization it would have a leadership structure. Doesn't mean I agree it has a leadership structure.