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folks in blue states have been living long healthy lives for a long time now

Poland's economy improved because it ditched communism. Not everything is because of immigration.

Poland experienced negative net immigration in recent decades. This changed dramatically in 2022 due to the war in Ukraine.

Iran did not pose an imminent direct threat to the United States. But it is a malign actor that has destabilized a region that is strategically important to us.

So are high rents good or bad? Are falling rents good or bad?

My metrics are health outcomes like life expectancy, educational attainment, worker productivity. By those blue states lap red states. Whose main claim to superior policy rests upon very generous federal transfers facilitated by tax payments from blue states.

I could answer any question you want. California has many failings. With respect to homelessness, housing regulations, education, etc. So does every blue state. But public policies in blue states generate far superior outcomes than what we see in red states. So find all the flaws you want...

Most red states would be third world countries without fiscal transfers and technological spillovers from blue states. There ain't much doubt about that. Hold them up as superior to blue states all you want. But it won't change that sad fact.

Not picking on Oklahoma. Just using them for illustrative purposes. The points made above apply to most red states.

without federal transfers and technological spillovers from hubs like San Francisco, Seattle, San Jose, New York and Boston would a state like Oklahoma be like Mexico? The short answer: probably not Mexico, but closer to a lower-middle-income country — and the numbers make a strong case...

You obviously have your own definition of competence. Mine would include basic health outcomes like life expectancy, educational attainment, the productivity of the workers.

"Low-tax state" is somewhat of a political brand. The actual level of public services and spending in those states is much closer to high-tax states than the tax burden numbers suggest, because the gap is quietly filled by federal redistribution from the high-income, high-tax coastal states...

I asked Grok if the differences between the top 10 and bottom 10 due to policy or luck. His/Her reply: The differences in life expectancy increases between the top 10 states (e.g., New York, California, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Alaska, Connecticut, Washington, Minnesota, Arizona, New...

States with the largest increase in life expectancy from 2000 to 2024: 1. New York 2. California 3. Massachusetts 4. Hawaii 5. Alaska 6. Connecticut 7. Washington 8. Minnesota 9. Arizona 10. New Jersey Bottom 10 1. West Virginia 2. Mississippi 3. Alabama 4. Kentucky 5. Oklahoma 6. Arkansas 7...

You're right. The H-2A program includes strict protections to prevent exploitation and wage suppression. I withdraw my praise for the president. He is in fact making American farmers and companies pay higher wages for labor they once got much cheaper. With costs passed on to American...

Am in Amsterdam for eight days. Ran into an interesting demonstration at Dam Square yesterday. Mostly Iranians demonstrating against the theocratic regime. Waving many Iranian flags, pre 1979 version, with some American and Israeli flags interspersed.

Cheap immigrant labor making life better for Americans. Shocks the sensibilities. Glad to have such a far-sighted president come to this realization.

twice as high...it's too late...we got you surrounded...sharia coming to Queens

That's like so woke man...next thang you gonna be saying is bitten individuals can lactate

Btw...short run demand for petroleum products is highly inelastic...another way of saying Iran has the world by the balls