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As explained in excruciating detail here, the World’s Happiest Country metric does not measure anyone’s happiness. Instead, it collects some metrics, weights them, drops them into the Stat-o-Meter, and pops…
Restaurant chains experimented with automation this year as the labor crunch pressured their profits. Source: Restaurant chains are investing in robots, bringing change for workers The labor shortage is a…
Demographics, fewer young people, demand for labor and higher salaries may result in fewer young people compelled to take out large loans and attend college. But the experts think college…
As inflation surged over the last two years, the Fed and leading private-sector forecasters were persistently behind the curve, seeing it as a temporary phenomenon that would eventually fade. Source:…
He’s been wrong about essentially everything – just read the comments to his own post. But defends himself by “name calling”, then “appeal to authority”, then more “appeal to authority”…
To enable a broader transition from ownership to usership, the way we design things and systems need to change too. For example, car sharing is made possible by new keyless…
We just need to lock down harder and longer, say the “experts”: That person self identifies as a professor. If only the U.S. had been more like China, this would…
This 25-minute video is a good overview of the demographic challenges we face. The media spends about 1000x more time on the climate change hypothesis while ignoring the demographic issues…
Covid, and then Russia’s war on everyone, have led to numerous changes in global trade. Some argue that the multi-decade period of global trade expansion is ending and we will…
China, after ending its non-sustainable ZeroCovid strategy, is now having a massive outbreak of Covid. That’s interesting: China also has near universal face mask compliance. But universal face masks and…