It's possible. But there are things we don't know right now.
Besides, what's to stop our federal government from "clawing back" benefits that have already been distributed? I say that's well within the realm of possibility.
With apologies to the The Treasure of Sierra Madre: Economics?! We don't need no economics!
Reminds me of the old wisecrack: An expert is someone who can't learn anything new. Because if he learned something it would prove he was no longer an expert.
I don't know, but do think there are too many discouraging, depressing novels being assigned.
UPDATE: Link present now.
The autobahn for SF to LA? Sound like it could be worth trying.
A testimony to the human spirit. Simply glorious.
(Link via my older daughter.)
Steven Hayward at Powerline smashes the "If a Liberal didn't win, it must be because voters were suppressed" argument.
At last, the journal the profession has been waiting for. (I kid, I kid.)
(My former NC State colleagues had this idea a long time ago. The name they preferred, however, was The Journal of Short and Shitty Papers.)
Pretty terrible.
But please do remember "Government is the name we give for the things we do together."
As always, macroeconomics is difficult.
Related: "Warren Buffett says no textbook could have predicted the strange economy we have today".
Ranks up there with licensing hair dressers and interior decorators (only three states plus D.C., but should be zero). Add another one to my sarcastic "Government is the name we give for the things we do together" file.
Pretty cool. (2.5 minute video.)
Blink Health sounds good to me.
Three pretty good folks to "weigh in".
One of the very best five-minute sequences from Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
Yet another way Belichick has been smarter than the rest of the NFL.
Beautifully covered by Suddenly Years Align.
UPDATE: link fixed now.
Yes. Yes, he did. (Gymnast in 16 second video.)
Liberals, I'm sure, won't agree.
From the National Museum of Natural History, an animated world map from 1960 through 2016.
Probably everything you ever wanted to know about "exploding glass cookware".
Shorter version: establishing causality in the absence of randomized experiments is real darned difficult.
Not often you see an unironic headline like this.
A reason why there's been so much reform but so little change.
"The average person living in the U.S. has never had it so good, by any number of measures."
UPDATE: Link provided now.
It's usually a good idea to disbelieve in myths.
If you wanna make a lotta money, you gotta zig when other people zag.
UPDATE: Link fixed now.
I think this is the way they're all going to go: union pension funds, state pension funds, city pension funds, what have you. They will ask the federal government to bail them out and there will be at least an attempt to do so, probably with this a model. Label it something else, but like a rose by another name would smell as sweet, a bailout by whatever name you give it will still stink.