Economy: Federal Reserve interest rates over time
This chart illustrates how the Fed got way behind on interest rates, will a crushing rapid rate hike sequence. The chart also shows how much worse things were when peak…
International: How Global Are We?
I have updated this post with new information – about 1 in 4 US STEM workers were born abroad. In the Seattle area, over 40% were born abroad and over…
Demographics: Aging planet
The Guardian propaganda rag notices the fertility rate problem and proposes a socialist solution that has already been proven not to work.
True: Bill Gates – “‘Better to be born 20 years from now…than any time in the past’”
I am currently reading Superabundance. The authors point out that by virtually every measure you can come up with, we are doing much better than at any time in the…
Geopolitics: The natural state of the world might not be the mostly peaceful past decades
“Polarization permeates our world, whether in domestic politics or interstate relations,” S. Jaishankar, the Indian minister of external affairs, wrote in a recent book called “The India Way.” He also…