Well, it's New Year's Day, and here I sit in my drafty New England garret ready to contemplate the most significant opportunity last year in the intersecting worlds of macro-economics and quants. The winner is obvious: the continuation (from 2010) of the DNC's incompetence. Ah, I bet you were thinking: Obama won? That was no surprise. Given that he won by a larger margin than any one of the pundits predicted, including 538, his coattails were a tad motheaten.
2010 set in motion the eventual hegemony of the radical loony Right. 2012, thanks in no small part to the DNC, leveraged the gains in 2010 (particularly the opportunity to set voting districts and "rules", code for voter suppression) such that more state and local government is now in the hands of the lunatic Right. DNC has much blood on its hands, but they've been quiet. Quaking in their well paid bunkers in Georgetown and Bethesda and McLean.
Here's some reporting on the damage. Countering 2010 and 2012, is the movement (mentioned here before) that urbanization is the great Lefter. Once again The Atlantic lays it out quite nicely (this one is linked). I wonder whether those might be ggplot2 maps?
It's the Distribution, Stupid
Essays on topics economics: monopolists, oligopolists, and oligarchs aren't better decision-makers for the society just because they's rich and they ain't the gummint.
Infinite granularity yields infinite complexity.
Vaccinated ≠ Not Infectious
$536,800,000 MARF™(party like it's 1829)
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
Milton was going on about the money supply, so what I said was everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my written work.
-- Robert M. Solow, 1924-2023 [Dr. Hemond noted that he made his fortune in the stock market]
-- New York Slammers, so far/2024 [GA and The Feds still to come]
Milton was going on about the money supply, so what I said was everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my written work.
-- Robert M. Solow, 1924-2023 [Dr. Hemond noted that he made his fortune in the stock market]
Covid-19 has killed at least
1,123,836 people (as of 20 March 2023, final update)
Buck {Showalter] has always reminded me of something his father once told him:
"The jobs that are easy don't pay very well."
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Mike Lupica/2023 [and don't qualify them to run anything; sub-GED knuckledraggers take note]
-- Monticello.org [take that, MTG]
-- Marriner Eccles/1951
This week's thought
[The intelligence community] argued that [the restrictive amendment] would cripple the program because they typically use it before there is enough evidence to meet a standard of probable cause for a warrant, like early in investigations when they are trying to learn more about a phone number or an email account found to be in contact with a suspected foreign spy or terrorist. -- Charlie Savage/2024 [IOW, let's catch the thief before the horse is out of the barn - the MARF™(party like it's 1829) traitor's worst nightmare]
About Me
Who I Am
Left wing economist since before it was fashionable
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