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The Daily Chart: Confidence in the News Media
Given the news about NPR (and even the New York Times, currently enduring its own internal Maoist struggle sessions, which I’ll discuss separately), this chart hardly needs any explanation. Though I’ll add that if the media keeps going in its current mode, I’m sure they can drive public trust all the way down to zero. »
The Daily Chart: California Dreaming Indeed
Last week the Wall Street Journal‘s James Freeman wrote about the wishful thinking of California elites who waive away any of the sensible causes for the droves of people leaving California (resulting in a sustained net population loss over the last few years for the first time in 170 years) such as high taxes, senseless regulation, rising crime, unaffordable housing etc. Maybe Mr. Newsom is just unlucky. This week in »
The Daily Chart: Red v. Blue on Tax Day
With everyone’s favorite day (April 15) hard upon us, worth noting how state income tax rates fall out. Pick your home state accordingly: »
The Daily Chart: Bidenflation by the Numbers
As readers will know by now, the mid-week inflation report came in “hot,” such that a June interest rate cut if thought to be off the table. Markets tumbled, and expectations for interest rate cuts tanked as well. Apparently no one has been paying attention to soaring commodity prices, which is usually a bad sign. In any case, here’s a before- and after- shot at why Biden is desperate for »
The Daily Chart: Plastic Madness
So we went and banned plastic straws and plastic bags in much of California and elsewhere because they are made from fossil fuels and a solitary turtle was once found snorting fentanyl through a plastic straw, or something. In any case, Greta/Gaia was displeased, so plastic products had to go. Well guess what: the substitutes for plastic products mostly produce higher greenhouse gas emissions than plastic. Not by just a »
The Daily Chart: DEI is DIE-ing
There has been some terrific news on the college front in recent weeks, such as at the University of Texas and University of Florida, where the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) commissars have been summarily sacked and the programs shut down, but it appears to be occurring in the corporate world as well. The Harvard Business Review is out with an article entitled “Why Diversity Programs Fail,” and yes, you »
The Daily Chart: A Conspiracy So Vast. . . [With Comment by John]
Ever since Richard Hofstadter published his worst book in 1964, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, it has been a sturdy cliche that conservatives and Republicans are more likely to believe conspiracy theories. This is nonsense to anyone with common sense perception (JFK assassination anyone?), but a new study in the journal Political Behavior (“Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories?“) takes the usual deep quantitative dive »
The Daily Chart: Full F5 Nonsense
Welp, we had earthquakes on both coasts last week, and today a total eclipse in the heartland. Can boiling frogs and locusts be far behind? All caused, of course, by climate change. Because there’s nothing it can’t do. Including make liberal Democrats looks stupid: What about tornados! We know those are getting worse with climate change: Enjoy your eclipse everybody. Just remember to wear your fake-news filtering glasses. »
The Daily Chart: Where Are the Pronoun Police?
Terrific—a new thing for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to police in employment discrimination. A Canadian social scientist (the best kind, no doubt) is out with a paper that finds job applicants who include non-binary pronouns (like “they/them”) on their resumes get fewer call backs than normal people. Who woulda thunk it? Potential employers prefer to avoid hiring dramatists and schizophrenics. The paper is Taryn versus Taryn (she/her) versus »
The Daily Chart: Youth Angst for Real
I used to joke that “I was a teenage existentialist,” which is partly true, except I knew even at the time that it was a pose. But the angst at the center of teen life that used to be the subject of every teenagers-in-heat movie of the 1980s now looks more serious. I wonder if this trend might be related to this trend: »
The Daily Chart: Snow Jobs
The joke in the Washington Beltway is that it only take a couple of snowflakes falling to cancel public schools and generate a run on bread and milk in the grocery stores. With a substantial early spring storm pounding the left coast a few days ago, and a separate storm pounding the midwest last week, worth noting these data on which parts of the country appear to be more robust »
The Daily Chart: Biden Repudiating ‘Bidenomics’?
You may recall that back around 1984, when the economy was booming, President Reagan took a victory lap with the comment that “I notice they don’t call it ‘Reaganomics’ any more.” Worth recalling that “Reaganomics” was a term liberals and the media came up with to attack Reagan during the deep recession of 1982. So it is ironic that Joe Biden decided to try to peddle “Bidenomics,” which has been »
The Daily Chart: Et Tu, Chocolate?
Now that Easter is safely past (except for the Orthodox!), maybe (checks notes) chocolate prices might start to come back down? You know Bidenflation is bad when it reaches chocolate. (Note that the last time chocolate was this expensive, Jimmy Carter was president. Coincidence? I think not!) »
The Daily Chart: How Much More Juice?
The Wall Street Journal warns today of “The Coming Electricity Crisis,” as “Projections for U.S. electricity demand growth over the next five years have doubled from a year ago. The major culprits: New artificial-intelligence data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants, and the government-driven electric-vehicle transition.” Here’s what some of these projections look like: For the climate cult, electricity shortages are a feature, not a bug. »
The Daily Chart: Ideology and Anxiety
Do you suppose there just might be a relationship between student ideology and the increase in anxiety or mental illness among young people? Eric Kaufman has done it again, with a report just out from the new Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham in the UK on how the mental health crisis does not explain wokery. I recommend looking at the whole thing, but one finding »
The Daily Chart: Immigration and Crime in Europe
From MSN: Report Shows Higher Conviction Rates for Muslim Immigrants in Denmark Compared to Natives Recent revelations based on data from Statistics Denmark shed light on a concerning trend: immigrants and their descendants in Denmark were convicted of violent crimes at a significantly higher rate than individuals of Danish origin between 2010 and 2021. The statistics paint a stark picture, particularly for young men from predominantly Muslim nations in the »
The Daily Chart: The U.S. Nuclear Deficit
I once asked a French acquaintance how it was that France managed to build over 5o nuclear power plants over the same time period that the U.S. built virtually none, and his answer was basically that France didn’t pay any attention to Jane Fonda. Actually his explanation was more colorful (and accurate). Read this with a French accent in your mind: “Ah, but it is simple you see: In France, »