The 28: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi,
Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington,
Wisconsin and Wyoming.
These are the set of states ...
I was thinking about whether the high rate of contiguousness of the 28 states (25 of the 28 are contiguous) was probabilistically significant or not, so was going to run a quick probability analysis. But, as I thought about it for a moment, the probability analysis is a little more complicated than I'd my inital thought. &...
Here's a partial matrix representing physical attributes of adjacency for CA, WA, NV, OR, & AZ.... it's expansion would continue with CO and NM's adjacent states, etc. throughout the 48. The null matrix cell under the 3 CA cells could be filled in (or not) with CA as well, but the fewer cells assigned a physical attribute the ...
1st link is a descriptive qualitative article, short (3 minutes to read it) & very easy reading, non-technical that describes the overall situation in larger perspective.
2nd link is to series of 7 easily interpreted charts that shows the nature of the recession's effects quantitatively with perspective over time dating back&...
I'm referring to Krugman's blog on distribution of weather events(entire distribution is climate). http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/gradual-trends-and- ...
The increasingly wider gap in incomes disparity between middle class and the rich has been argued to be caused by income tax policies. I have argued this in the past by showing that income tax policy ceases to be progressive at incomes > ~ $600k, clearly giving the upper echelons of income a ...
The ultimate irony is that revolutions are created, fueled, and stoked by those most opposed to it.
I'm sure someone in the past is credited with having already said this in some form or another since it's been the case forever.... resistance to change gives change meaning. Without resistance to ...
Gov. Jan Brewer sued the federal government Thursday for failing to control Arizona's border with Mexico and enforce immigration laws, and for sticking the state with huge costs associated with jailing illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
The lawsuit claims the federal government has failed to ...
http://www.epi.org/economic_snapshots/entry/income_inequality_it_wasnt_always_this_way/
A cursory calcuation looking at income ...
Speaking of the debt ceiling needing to be raised:
"The only budget battle that matters is the fight over what kind of "compromise" the White House cuts with Republicans to get the continuing resolution extended" -- Andew Leonard ...
I've shown the stock market's economic cycles in past note where I've tracked the S&P 500 since 1950. The same cycles are seen if you track % change in GPD over time as well, so this "business cycle" as it was formerly called is real and persistant.
What I was curious about though is the fundamental ...
You've probably seen this (2 days ago), but Dean Baker blasts Greenspan like no other
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/ ...
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/
If you haven't become very worried yet, or you've taken after Alfred E. Newman attitude ("What, me worry?"), its time to start worrying in earnest since you're getting a preview of how much & how dramatically things will change.
Current GOP legislation in the GOP dominated House is just a little ...
The reality of US Federal Spending in 10 years is (short of increasing revenues (tax rates) to compensate, or even better, implementing a single payor system) is that it will be slashed to bare bones or even eliminated, along with Social Security benefits reductions.
Why is this the reality?...
If a position is based on a set of reasoned facts and projections (for or against) it's hard to argue effectively against that position of "reason". Ultimately the only way to argue with reason is to declare "whats fair is forme!...everybody not on my side can stick it (...go to hell; fuck themselves)". ...
Krugman's "getting his facts line up" before commenting, so I thought I'd weigh in with my thoughts on it now.
The issue is collective bargaining by public employees.... teachers unions, police, firefighters, gov't office workers unions, state highway mainteance unions, etc... .people employed by a gov't ...
I don't know why it never ceases to amaze me that US foreign policy is as blind as a bat when it comes to sources of oil... but even though I've recognized this blindness for nearly as long as I recognized the US's dependance on oil --- somewhere along my university educational years, it still amazes me.
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I think I've said before that public union workers are paid less or equal to private sector employees all things accounted for --- pensions and health benefits are paid for by the employees directly taken out of their hourly wage/salery... so direct salery's are less but pensions / health care benefits are more... .they balance out with ...
If Fact Check got it wrong "that Social Security contributes to the US Budget deficit" then it stands to reason that most others in the US probabl also think Social Security contributes to the US budget deficit. DB sets it straight... Social Security DOES NOT contribute to the US Budget deficit... not just because he says so... but ...
I've heard a few comments recently (from more than a couple of people) along the lines that the Fed's statements about "underlying inflation" are just plain wrong... improperly measured, or not associated with reality, etc... or words to that effect... disbelief in the Fed's statements in other words.
When I ...
I've been wondering what the working pubic will think when they keep watching corporate profits and revenues rise, equity markets continue to grow into another bubble economy, while unemployment rates remain double or more what they used to be, and their own saleries are barely keeping pace with, if they are even keeping pace with ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
But what the articles don't say or discuss is that this is fully expected, understood, and normal result of the free flow of capital in a quasi-laissez-faire capitalist ...
This is interesting stuff.... how the components used to measure CPI & Core CPI are weighted, and how frequently prices in each component change. http://www.clevelandfed.org/Research/commentary/2010/2010-2.cfm
This is from the Cleveland Fed's research... you're likely familiar with the Cleveland Fed'...
I forgot to include the corporate profits & market growth rates, so here they are... read'em and weep. Net: For the most recent comparative annual periods, corporate profits and market prices have grown ~15%... or ~ 14% over the rate of inflation for the period. This period is that for which unemployment rates ...