Political science, economics, data science, and environmentalism
One reason a lot of people support Brexit has been for the United Kingdom to create a European Union-like organization among its commonwealth realms, and they argue this will increase the United Kingdom’s power projection. Let’s compare what this will be compared to the European Union which the United Kingdom has left. European Union …
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If you look at the Russian population pyramid, there are several important places to remember which are clear in this population pyramid as I have clearly marked. Russia didn’t have to have its current baby bust. If Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine and focused on upskilling Russians, growing their domestic economy, and improving the quality of …
Going from smallest to largest… We’ll use the Capitol Building of the United States of America as our reference point, because a large percentage of Americans have visited it at least once in their lives, and if you haven’t, you need to. LEVEL 0: Private cars First of all, we will always have cars. 20% …
The presidency of Donald Trump was one of the worst America ever had. Even though he had few legislative accomplishments, America won’t be safe until the courts are unstacked from what he did. Donald Trump didn’t even win the popular vote, but reduced turnout and a lack of campaigning in three states gave him a …
On the surface, to someone who doesn’t understand macroeconomics, sending surplus money back to taxpayers sounds like a great idea. It sounds like a benefit to taxpayers to give them relief and helps people out. Right? But in reality, it is not a good policy. This creates a pro-cyclical fiscal policy which means people pay …
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New CDC advice: push all of your money in bonds when the stock market goes up! I’m a little frustrated here… This whole idea of loosening up our policies when they start to work is moronic. We cannot do science via popular opinion, we need to do policy based on science, which is based on …
I just wrote a post examining which countries are democratic enough that we should seriously consider extending visa-free travel to them. I identified 27 different countries where there is no good reason why they shouldn’t be allowed to travel to the US and Canada without a visa, and I think we need to update our …
I just deactivated my twitter account. I’m not going back. Here’s why: I am pretty sure they are hiding my posts. I had over 2800 followers and I got maybe 100 impressions per tweet. It clearly didn’t show my tweets to the people who actually interacted with me. I had time off work and I …
A common misconception is that trade unions are a critical part of Marx’s theory of revolution. I’m here to convince you that is not the case, and the presence of unions in the First International was merely a temporary and doomed-to-fail alliance of convenience. The First and Second Internationals The International was formed on 28 …
Pretty much everyone knows about the beginning of civilization. Around 4000 BCE different civilizations started to pop up in a few river valleys in Africa and Asia. Sumer was organized as an early dynasty around 4500 BCE. The Indus valley civilization appeared around 3300 BCE. It remained stable for 2000 years. China was established as …