[unable to retrieve full-text content]During the Trump administration (according to the Migration Policy Institute), the Trump administration signed over four hundred executive actions on immigration between January 2017 and July 2020.  These executive action changes limited asylum, banned entry from a list of countries (initially seven, but later expanded to thirteen), sought to deter cross-border immigration from Mexico and […] The post The Misinformation About Immigrants in the...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]He wanted generals like Hitler’s, a leader he sometimes praised. “Do you really believe you’re not loyal to me?” Trump asked then–chief of staff General John Kelly. Kelly was clear: “I’m certainly part of the administration, but my ultimate loyalty is to the rule of law.” October 22, 2024 – by Prof. Heather Cox Richardson […] The post Shifting the burden of supporting the country from the...

The dangers of using pernicious fictions in statistics In much of science and medicine, the assumptions behind standard teaching, terminology, and interpretations of statistics are usually false, and hence the answers they provide to real-world questions are misleading … In light of this harsh reality, we should ask what meaning (if any) can we assign to the P-values, “statistical significance” declarations, “confidence” intervals, and posterior...

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Democrat rate policy still has US overnight risk free IOR rate at 4.9% so what is so bad about a 10yr risk free UST rate of 4.2%?  It’s still significantly inverted over time …  usual Art degree moron suspects going apoplectic meanwhile a significantly inverted yield curve… hard to understand how these peoples brains work… 🤔

Publications Solid foundations Local investment need for a decade of renewal By Benedikt Straňák, Emmet Kiberd 24 October 2024 Download the report The physical...

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[unable to retrieve full-text content] – by New Deal democrat In the past number of months, I have been looking for a rebalancing of new vs. existing home sales. The sharp increase in mortgage rates beginning in 2022 locked many existing homeowners into their houses, since they could not afford the concomitant increase in mortgage payments that would accrue from […] The post Rebalancing of housing market continues: existing home sales down, inventory up, price growth...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Getting the vote out has been a big factor in voting. Much of voting today is done via mail. The U.S. Postal Services plays a large role in making sure votes are delivered on time. The graph below is from the September 30, 2024 review of the USPS performance resulting from the America Plan. A […] The post U.S. Postal Service’s Delivering for America Plan appeared first on Angry Bear.

from C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh The latest World Employment and Social Outlook Report (update for September 2024) from the International Labour Organisation highlights some disturbing trends. Importantly, it identifies a significant decline and then stagnation in the share of labour income in GDP, for the world as a whole, in the past few years. This comes as part of a persistent trend of decline in labour income shares, other than spikes in “crisis years” like 2008-10 and...