I don't know. To offer one hypothesis... social media algorithms have incentivisied what gets attention, which isn't truth, but outrage and easy "answers". Modern populism, often … (View Post)

Some US political cartooning (View Post)

The US appears to be pushing for a nuclear deal that will be very similar... sorry, I mean completely different to and much, much better than the one Obama got. (View Post)

This one's https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/research-department-working-paper/2019/estimating-the-marginal-propensity-to-consume-using-the-distributions-income-consumption-wealth.aspx?utm_… (View Post)

... whereas this one https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107919/ is the classic paper that found... This paper uses data from 18 OECD countries over the last five decades to estimate the causa… (View Post)