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Good news: air quality in the US has improved!

Summary:  This post will get little traffic, like most that give good news.  “If it bleeds, it leads.”  Articles about the last faux-doomster news get traffic, re-enforcing the widespread belief that the ecology of the USA slowly (or rapidly) rolls down to Hell.  How sad. Althought a disappointing for “the environment is going to hell” …

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Yes, it is a “mancession”, with men losing more jobs than women. Just like all recessions.

The past quarter-century has been an extraordinarily stable period for the economy (as we accumulated debt to maintain growth).  With only two recessions since 1982, both mild and brief, we’ve forgotten what recessions are like.   So we get analysis like this: “Mancession Continues: Male-Female Jobless Rate at Historic Levels, Higher Than Last Two Recessions“, Mark …

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Women dominate the ranks of college graduates. What’s the effect on America?

This will be one of the greatest social science experiments ever conducted.  After WWII nations tested free markets vs. government-dominated systems.  Europe, North America, and East Asia using variants of the former.  The red block, Africa, and Latin America using variants of the latter.  The results were clear, and the world changed. Now we’re testing …

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