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UPDATE: Edited June 10, see below. From time to time I like to write my elected officials to ask questions about policy and about the communications that they send to us from time to time. We received a mailer from our local Assemblyperson Jennifer Lunsford at the beginning of May that was a marketing document […]

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Gerentocracy

Our gerentocracy doesn’t suck because they are old. No, it sucks because their ideas have been terrible for 50 years, and they continue jamming them down our throats to this day. Have a nice day.

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Red Meat

Steak demand seems to be positively correlated with how red your politics are (HT: Jason Lusk and his Food Demands Survey).

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Alex Tabarrok has a post today supporting the idea of term limits. He, like me, seems to support them on the grounds that if you know the opposite party may soon be in office, that may soften your governing stand while in office. I want to believe this is what happens. But in a world […]

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Folks, remember, the Presidency doesn’t matter much – but I do think there is some writing on the wall from what we see from the messages that have resonated with voters … … we are a country of economic illiterates (and statistical ones too – ahem, polling and uncertainty bands anyone?). If there was ever […]

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In addition to just not posting, I’ve definitely tried to avoid the muck of politics. One thing has really stuck with me however is that I think that the Democratic and Progressive left has turned into quite a selective conservative movement, much in the tradition of the modern conservative movement (does it exist?). What is […]

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This finding, while not surprising, is hard for me to square with the Political Economy we live in: On the Distribution of the Welfare Losses of Large Recessions by Dirk Krueger, Kurt Mitman, Fabrizio Perri  –  NBER WP#22458 How big are the welfare losses from severe economic downturns, such as the U.S. Great Recession? How […]

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A very good and underappreciated site is Put a Number on It. Here, from a recent post on inequality, is not something many are familiar with: Transfers comprise social security and the rest of welfare. I gave $5,700 to every person over 65 and spread the rest based on number of children and distance from […]

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Ponder This Over Your Memorial Day BBQ

If someone had told two years ago that one party was going to run a ticket with two ex-governors who were regarded as competent and scandal-free while another party was going to run Trump, which would you have guessed would be the mainstream party and which would you have guessed would be the wacko third […]

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Hillary in a landslide. Republican House Democratic Senate.

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