If you are going to compare median family incomes in the US over time, you should recognize that family structures have changed in the US. Bluntly, there are far more families that are headed by a si… (View Post)

StillWaters - I sympathize with the difficulty of finding an honest graph. It is one of the reasons I have started thinking about re-learning the R language. As I recall, it is fairly easy to constru… (View Post)

Pedant comment: That chopped-off bar chart at the trading economics site is very bad practice, since it is visually deceiving. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/government-spending-to-gdp (View Post)

The government of Sri Lanka made other mistakes, for instance: "Faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agri… (View Post)

So the CSS Shenandoah refused to surrender at the end of our great Civil War -- just like two -- if I recall correctly -- Nazi submarines that refused to surrender at the end of WW II, but instead he… (View Post)