The Great Divide — political polarization grips America.
Those living in countries were the opposition party won by a landslide might consider relocating. Otherwise it might get pretty lonely the way things are shaping up.
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right
Purple America Has All But Disappeared
David Wasserman
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@Tom, of possible interest to MNE, delightful interview with Angus Deaton, touches on rent seeking, inequality, and whether government is making things better or worse.
Life expectancy in much of Appalachia is below life expectancy in Bangladesh. .... There's a town in Indiana where the currency is OxyContin units. They’ve stopped using money and they’re using grams of OxyContin!
"Those living in countries..." should be "Those living in counties ...", I do believe.
But what would an algorithm know? :)
@Dan Lynch
I've just read the interview. It's really good and thought-provoking and full of recommendations about good books.
Deaton himself also strikes me as a genuine bloke. I mean, to have a Nobel laureate repeating over and over that there are things he doesn't know about is almost unimaginable. Compare that with the econo-poseurs populating the econoblogophere.
I didn't like the rent-seeking emphasis he gives to the economic problem. But I guess one could say I'm quibbling.
Thanks for the link!
Glad you enjoyed it, Magpie.
I dunno if Deaton is on board with fiat money, etc., but just the fact that he is a decent human being and cares about little people is refreshing for an economist these days.
FYI I grew up in the Mississippi Delta. It was bad then, and it's gone downhill since then. Crime, drugs, unemployment, poverty, segregation. And nobody cares. They're disposable people.
Watch Hell and High Water! I cannot recommend it enough: a great movie.
FYI I grew up in the Mississippi Delta. It was bad then, and it's gone downhill since then. Crime, drugs, unemployment, poverty, segregation. And nobody cares. They're disposable people.
I remember reading something like our betters hate us, they despise us, and they fear us. I think it was Gavin Mueller.
Whoever said it, he/she is right.
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