Producer Ted Bergmann on Suzanne Somers’ contract negotiations on “Three’s Company”
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To Help the Poor, Focus on Poverty Reduction Rather than Inequality
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Here’s a simple quiz to determine whether you should support a candidate like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren: Would you embrace a policy that increased income for poor Americans by 10 percent if it also happened to increase income for rich Americans by 15 percent?
Normal people automatically say yes. After all, they don’t resent rich people and they want lower-income people to enjoy better living standards.
Some of our left-leaning friends (including at the IMF!), however, are so fixated on inequality that they are willing to deprive the poor so long as higher-income people have even larger losses (Margaret Thatcher nailed them on this issue).
Let’s look at some analysis of this issue.
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial that starts by highlighting some good economic news.
…low- and middle-income folks are reaping more economic benefits than during the Obama years. …Worker earnings increased…
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BBC News coverage of terrorism in Israel – August 2019
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The Israel Security Agency’s report on terror attacks (Hebrew) during August 2019 shows that throughout the month a total of 149 incidents took place including 97 in Judea & Samaria, 25 in Jerusalem and inside the ‘green line’ and 26 in the Gaza Strip sector.
In Judea & Samaria and Jerusalem the agency recorded 95 attacks with petrol bombs, 14 attacks using pipe bombs, five arson attacks, two shooting attacks, two stabbing attacks, one attack using a grenade and one vehicular attack.
Incidents recorded in the Gaza Strip sector included nine attacks with petrol bombs, three attacks using pipe bombs, one attack using a grenade, three shooting attacks and seven incidents of rocket fire.
Two people were murdered and eight wounded in attacks during the month of August.
The BBC News website reported the August 7th murder of Dvir Sorek the following day but no follow-up reporting was seen…
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Most feminists have lost their way
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in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: political correctness, regressive left, women's liberation
The woke left would not understand this at all
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in law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Deborah Lipstadt Explains Why Holocaust Denial Shouldn’t Be a Crime
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in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics Tags: free speech, The Holocaust
WHY PEOPLE ALWAYS REGRET NOT TAKING RISKS – William von Hippel
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in economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital Tags: evolutionary psychology
Richard Posner Politics in the Supreme Court
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in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, Richard Posner Tags: constitutional law
Energy Savings from Building Codes are Only Symbolic
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Richard Tol posted at Climate Economics: How much energy do building code save?
Not nearly as much as expected, according to this paper by Arik Levinsohn. California has had building codes for energy since 1978, and they are tightened every so often. Levinsohn compares the energy use of buildings build before and after a code change, compares Californian houses to houses elsewhere in the USA, and compares the weather sensitivity of houses with different building codes. He finds that codes save energy, but the ex post estimates are lower than the ex ante ones on which the regulation was based.
Arik Levinsohn wrote at American Economic Review How Much Energy Do Building Energy Codes Save? Evidence from California Houses
Abstract
Regulations governing the energy efficiency of new buildings have become a cornerstone of US environmental policy. California enacted the first such codes in 1978 and has tightened them every…
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Watch Bill Maher’s show while you can
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Hunt is New Zealand’s human rights commissioner
This, sent by reader Michael, is a video of Bill Maher’s show last night, featuring Andrew Sullivan and Sarah Haider, as well as Samantha Power, Timothy Naftali and Heather McGhee Watch it while you can, because these things are taken down soon. I haven’t even watched it in my rush to make it available here.
Haider is the special guest, and appears at 31:32.
I’ve now watched it. It’s a good show overall: there’s discussion of Justin Trudeau’s blackface, NZ prime minister Jacinda Arden’s unwise donning of a hijab after the Christchurch mosque massacre, Trump Derangement Syndrome, and much more.
M4 Sherman – The Workhorse of D-Day
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
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