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.…
Environment: Solutions need to be sustainable and not lead to a lower quality of life
During the pandemic, public health was quick to institute numerous restrictions on our lives – restrictions that their own prior published research said did not work at all, only worked…