Economy: Today’s homes cannot be compared to 1950s-1970s homes
Another comparison of homes from 1970 to today. The differences are huge, making price comparisons useless.
Follow up: Christmas/Holiday retail sales
The predictions (gloomy) versus what actually happened (sales were up).
Health: Ending the ACA “mandate” led to lower premium hikes
Some claim that ending the ACA mandate for coverage led to higher prices. But in fact, premium hikes moderated once it was ended. Here's why that happened...
Economy: Americans pay 96% of Trump’s tariff costs
Trump goes full protectionism, seeks to have Americans pay higher prices for most everything, declares free trade over.
Education, Work: Do students from wealthy backgrounds work part-time?
A chart shows more students "working" or "interning" if they come from wealthy households. But this may be misleading.
Warning: Everything is a scam
Charitable donation turns out to be a scam. Because everything is a scam. I'm dealing with 3 of them (from real businesses) just in the past week.
Demographics: China’s fertility rate drops to 0.93
Over the longer term, China's population is collapsing from 1.4 billion perhaps to 600 million or lower.
Public library usage has collapsed
My county recently opened new libraries – and one of them is in my city, where the square footage of the original library has been doubled.
Demographics: US probably saw a drop in population in 2025
For the first time in at least 50 years, the US population in 2025 likely dropped.
Innovation: The decline in the incidence of home structure fires
Since the 1970s, the incidence of structure fires has declined by 55%.