Newmark's Door

Posting will resume Monday.

I've written this here before: modern cosmology seems pretty weird.

No surprise: 36 years ago two of my former colleagues in the NC State economics department reported this result.

They like Ambra in Philly best.

"Let's find your perfect destination, one step at a time. Answer a few questions and discover where you could call home."

Disclosure: it picked Malta for me, which may well be lovely, but is almost certainly not right for me.

A short review of the principal work--with a suggestion of what future work should be done--of this years economics Nobel Prize winners.

Hear, hear.

That data also show the top one percent of taxpayers earned 26.3 percent of Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) but paid 45.8 percent of all personal federal income taxes. The top 0.1 percent of earners paid 24.7 percent and the top 5 percent paid 65.6 percent. 

UPDATE: headline corrected. Thanks, Peter K.

Veronique de Rugy has, as usual, some excellent ideas. But I make the odds at about 1 in 10 even half of them get adopted in the next four years.

"But few observers have yet focused on how several local election outcomes will make 2024 the 'anti-crime election'—one for which many Americans have longed for about a decade."

Not "obsolete" exactly--I don't advocate for anarchy--but I'd like government at all levels to be trimmed back. And even more, I'd like politicians to just stop lying.