EVs: Tax credits, buying versus leasing
To take advantage of a tax credit loophole on EVs, some car makers want to do more leasing: Hyundai, Kia and Ford say they will look to increase leasing on…
AI: Prof. Noah Giansiracusa on the media hype over AI
"AI" systems are doing amazing things but the limitations are still huge. Unfortunately, the hype has gotten ahead of the reality, says Prof. Noah Giansiracusa.
Business: Gen Z’s thoughts on work are not crazy
Most of my Gen Z peers actually fall somewhere in between, advocating for work-life balance and professional growth, including climbing the corporate ranks. But those teens and 20-somethings are being…
Demographics: Washington looking to cut schools, programs
Seattle officials say it’s too early to know which schools would close but the majority of enrollment loss has been in elementary grades. Source: School closures, cuts to clubs and…
Demographics: American colleges in crisis
Source: American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record | Fortune What first looked like a pandemic blip has turned into a crisis. Nationwide, undergraduate college enrollment dropped…
Public health: Public health fan group wants the public health emergency to continue forever
Socialist public health fan group is demanding the public health emergency remain in place forever and DEMANDS (capital letters!) a host of socialist programs be implemented. Hah hah.
Demographics: Many confused by media disinformation
First, it’s the fertility rate issue – 75% of the world’s population lives in countries where the fertility rate is below population replacement levels. This chart is for the U.S.…
Brain injuries: My story – Brain Injury Awareness Month #BrainInjuryAwareness #BrainInjuryAwarenessMonth #MoreThanMyBrainInjury
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month Until 2018, I knew nothing about brain injuries and suspect you know nothing about them too. Which is odd since I had had a…
Bogus Legal Claims in Unsolicited Email
Someone mistyped an email address – probably leaving out a middle initial – and it ended up in my in box. This happens often. This email, from a wireless service…
Stupidity: We “literally did nothing to stop the infection from spreading”
This is what counts as our brilliant technocratic overloads: If only we had been more like China … We did nothing. Like shutdown non-life-threatening health care, prohibiting me from seeing…
Demographics: Population growth (or shrinkage) matters to business but varies based on type of business
Each business needs to focus on how the fertility rate decline and changing demographics (older population, fewer young people) impacts their business in the next few decades. Business leaders should…
Economy: Inflation is a wealth tax on everyone
Here’s the inflation breakdown for December 2022 — in one chart (cnbc.com) Sen. Warren does not understand we already have a wealth tax – it’s called “Inflation” and then at…
Demographics: Visualizing the Changing World Population, by Country
These charts highlight the changing world population between 2022 and 2050, showing which countries are growing—and shrinking—the fastest. Source: Visualizing the Changing World Population, by Country
Demographics: wage growth stalled in the ’70s and ’80s
Each side of this mostly friendly argument has a strength and a weakness. The difficulty of the wage-stagnation theory is that wages haven’t actually stagnated. Even looking only at men’s…
Healthcare: “Out-of-pocket health spending rises at highest rate since 1985”
The “experts” assured us the ACA would fix this. In fact, our premiums would be 4x greater in 2023 than in 2014, to cover 2 people versus 3 in 2014.…