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The Daily Chart: White House Hypocrisy by the Numbers

Featured image One of the central totems of the modern left and its women’s auxiliary (the feminist movement) is the alleged “wage gap” between men and women. You know the cliche—women only earn 80 cents for every dollar a man earns. This cliche has been exploded countless times, but it refuses to die because it retains endless utility for grievance-junkies who run the Democratic Party. You know the Biden White House will »

The Daily Chart: Fake Green

Featured image Churchill remarked that “For a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” A similar thing can be said, apparently, for green energy—you can’t subsidize or tax-break yourself to a truly profitable business. »

The Daily Chart: Heavy Metal Madness

Featured image One fine sunny Sunday several years ago found me in Helsinki, Finland, where I spotted a rock bacd setting up in a square by a park, and I decided to linger for some free live music. Who knows—I could be catching the next Abba, or Eurovision Song Contest contestant. Well, it wasn’t any of those. What it was is kinda hard to describe. Best I could do at the time »

The Daily Chart: Another Red/Blue Dividing Line

Featured image As we have noted repeatedly here, people are voting with the feet and moving from high crime/high tax blue states to low tax/low crime red states in increasing numbers. Alongside tax rates as a factor in higher economic growth in red states is that red states are more likely to be right-to-work states than blue states. This is not universally true; heavily unionized Michigan was a right-to-work for a decade, »

The Daily Chart: Forget Red v. Blue

Featured image Yesterday we noted Trump’s rising strength among certain voting groups. How about by profession instead of ethnicity, gender, and the other usual things? Like professions perhaps? Everyone likes to say the political divide in America is between red states and blue states. But it looks like the division is more white versus blue when it comes to who is supporting Trump’s campaign—that is, white collar professionals against blue collar workers. »

The Daily Chart: Trump Gaining Strength?

Featured image My pal Henry Olsen explains in his recent Telegraph column that Trump is underperforming his polls in recent contests, and appears to be stuck between a very solid floor and a rigid ceiling. Perhaps, but the Telegraph included this graphic, taken from recent Pew polls, that suggests a different picture: To be fair, a generic Republican ought to be polling about 60 percent of the white vote, and that’s just »

The Daily Chart: Housing Bubble 2.0?

Featured image Right now the unaffordability of housing has become a national issue, and not just one for the two coasts. The fundamental reason for this is the spread of coastal-style over-regulation of housing to the interior states of “flyover country,” which had for decades mostly resisted the over-regulation of housing. Rising interest rates have something to do with this too. In any case, maybe another housing crash is in the works? »

The Daily Chart: Lessons from the Coming Tory Wipeout

Featured image According to the polls, the Tory Party over in Britain s heading for a wipeout at the hands of the Labour Party later this year, thereby squandering Boris Johnson’s record Tory landslide of 2019. Has there ever been a greater example of political malpractice in recent decades? There are lots of reasons for this dreadful scene (starting with Johnson’s own terrible handling of COVID and other unforced errors) which can »

The Daily Chart: Bummerburger (with Cheese)

Featured image A sequel of sorts to yesterday’s chart on global meat consumption: There has been a lot of media coverage of the fact that fast-food meals are suddenly expensive, yet somehow the media never mention or explore the possible linkage to higher minimum wage laws even though fast-food chains in California have said openly that the state’s coming $20 minimum wage will force them to raise prices further. It ought to »

The Daily Chart: Meat-Eaters

Featured image The chart below is dense and you may need to enlarge it, but the key takeaways are that the U.S. only ranks fifth in the world in total meat consumption. And this only comes from our high ratings in two categories: beef and chicken. I am rather amazed we aren’t in the top ten for pork, since bacon is a crucial American staple. C’mon America! Step up! Chaser—or more a »

The Daily Chart: McJobs or GovJobs?

Featured image The headlines tell us that job growth is robust, showing that “Bidenomics” works, even if Biden’s brain doesn’t. We have mentioned here before that a disproportionate amount of job growth appears to be in government, and here’s another look at it from our friends at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity: It should be mentioned that given the government’s role in funding (and distorting) the entire health care marketplace, some of »

The Daily Chart: Confidence Game?

Featured image The stats geek Nate Silver offered up an interesting observation at the New York Times a few days ago. Since the late 1970s there have been two primary surveys of consumer and business sentiment about the economy—the University of Michigan survey, and the Conference Board survey. The Michigan survey is designed to measure pocketbook sentiment of consumers, while the Conference Board tries to measure business conditions. For more than 40 »

The Daily Chart: Real Gaslighting

Featured image U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell again last year, and the Biden Administration will no doubt claim that it is because of their “Inflation Reduction Act” measures promoting renewable energy. In fact, the reduction owes almost entirely to the growth of natural gas power generation: So what does Biden do? Announce new measures to throttle natural gas production and distribution. Chaser—here’s why restricting U.S. natural gas exports is stupid: »

The Daily Chart: Oppressed Women?

Featured image Today women outnumber men in college enrollment, and in many graduate fields. Women are advancing in the corporate ranks. Yet for some reason word is out that women have it worse than ever, though the problem is skewed to younger people, which raises the question, what the hell are they learning in school? (Never mind: we know.) Naturally the problem also skews by ideology: Chaser—discrimination in favor of men in »

The Daily Chart: The High Cost of White Liberal Guilt

Featured image By now it shouldn’t be necessary to point out that the liberal response to the death of George Floyd in 2020 has been a disaster for the very people whom liberals claim they champion: low income minorities. The mindless embrace of the “defund the police” and reduction of enforcement of traffic stops has led to a significant increase in black mortality especially. Nice going liberals. »

The Daily Chart: Do-Nothing Congress? Hooray!

Featured image Word has gone out for the media from Certified Smart People: attack the Republican House for being the least productive Congress in decades in terms of the number of bills actually passed. This shows how out of touch they are, since “Do-Nothing Congress” is one of the happiest phrases around for anyone acquainted with Gideon Tucker’s famous axiom, “No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is »

The Daily Chart: Why Do Dems Want Tax Cuts for the Rich?

Featured image Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries has his knickers in a twist because House Republicans refuse to re-instate the state and local tax deduction. But I thought Democrats want to increase taxes on the top 1%?  This ought to be an embarrassment, but Democrats long ago got over being embarrassed by hypocrisy. I say to House Republicans, keep pouring SALT into self-inflicted blue state wounds. »