According to Politico, President Obama's support has declined to the point that only 50 percent of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush. Forty-four percent say they'd rather have Bush.
In one sense, this isn't very surprising. Most people probably don't believe they [...]
From the New York Times:
The decline of the American dollar has led to a trade imbalance north of the border, on the rinks of the National Hockey League.
Over the past two decades, the Canadian teams in the N.H.L. were considered poor cousins of their colleagues in [...]
NBER paper by Bound, Lovenheim, and Turner (2009).
Partly as a consequence of the substantial increase in the college wage premium since 1980, a much higher fraction of high school graduates enter college today than they did a quarter century ago. However, the rise in the fraction of high school graduates attending college [...]
This is great!This is great!I'm currently finishing the last volume of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. One of the book's themes is the decline and fall of Kenneth Widmerpool, a friend (sort of) of the narrator who is introduced in the first pages of the first volume, some forty years' [...]
From David Meltzer and Zhuo Chen (HT Greg Mankiw):
Growing consumption of increasingly less expensive food, and especially “fast food”, has been cited as a potential cause of increasing rate of obesity in the United States over the past several decades. Because the real minimum wage in the United States has declined [...]
The more you read the fine print of the Democratic health insurance proposal, the more you realize how perverse the incentives and what a truly nutty outcome seems likely to occur due to its details.
Obamacare could have the unintended consequence of raising health insurance premiums and causing a decline [...]
