Looks like Northern Oceania may have awakened western Eurasia.

Good news, the productivity challenge can be solved! Become an energy-rich exporter or a financial and tax avoidance hub and keep your fertility rate below replacement. So easy!

These don't prove anything, just call into question the idea that pop growth below replacement rates leads to a Workers' Paradise.

Will be interesting to see if the preliminary narrative, that Trump votes correlate positively to county-level rate of depression, gets traction despite this follow up. (Follow-up analysis jibes w/ my anecdotal experience w/ voters from both sides.)
freerangestats.info/blog/2025/01...

He's right, you know. 😉

No one's innocent in this mess 😂

"...many of the problems we face in our economy now relate to the changes in the stylized facts about the behavior of the economy: Every one of Kaldor's stylized facts is no longer true, and unfortunately the changes are mostly in a direction that complicates the formulation of economic policy."

That's a thing, but they weren't entirely wrong.
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRCCL...

What happened in 2000? Impact of 1996 Telecomm Act? Other? Or were the 1990s an aberration? Moar data...

November 1st vibes.

😂😂😂😂

It's an unsurprisingly bad take, but it's also not entirely untrue. 😉

universityseminars.columbia.edu/books/gold-f...

open.substack.com/pub/briefing...

It'll take some odd time warpy turns but turn out OK in the end.

It's reported that Northrup, Lockheed and Raytheon scouts were in attendance. /s

*smirks from beyond the grave*