Policy: Tariff madness
Trade restrictions make everyone worse off. How does this make sense?
Education: Spending more $s not linked to better outcomes
In Oregon, dramatic increase in education spending led to worse outcomes.
Economy: Gender gap in home ownership by single persons
Single women own more homes than single men.
Environment: Global trend in air pollution – is down
Air pollution has been dropping - by a lot - for quite a while, which is great news.
All the layoffs you did not hear about last week
From the saturation media coverage you might think only Federal workers lost jobs in the past week, but you would be mistaken.
Economy: Historical home ownership rate in the U.S.
Contrary to media doomerism, today's home ownership rate is at nearly the highest level of the past 65 years.
Software: Microsoft Skype to shut down
Skype will be shut down in May. Microsoft wants users to switch to Teams.
Energy: Induction electric cook tops
Electric induction cook tops are probably the future of home cooking. We like our portable induction single burner.
Public health: Culling chicken flocks doesn’t work
Killing hundreds of millions of chickens to stop H5N1 has failed, but at least it caused egg prices to skyrocket.