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Well, looks like the Biden Admin is trying to give ESG funds a cover just as the supposedly ESG-i-est of ESG ops blew up.
WSJ editorial: Biden Puts Your 401(k) to ESG Work
The Biden regulatory machine doesn’t rest, even in Thanksgiving week. On...
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I love a good Simpson’s Paradox example out in the wild, and here is a perfect one a friend sent me:
MICHIGAN absentee ballot *****return**** rate
18-24: DEM 47%, GOP 36%
25-34: DEM 49%, GOP 43%
35-49:...
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From the NY Post we hear:
New Jersey teachers union condemns parents as ‘extremist’ in new ad
A New Jersey teachers union condemned parents who confront school officials at school board meetings as “extremist” in a new advertisement this week.
The New Jersey chapter of the National Education Association (NEA), the...
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Just got this breaking news:
Stock futures slide after GDP contracts for a second time, raising recession fears
Stock futures fell on Thursday after the latest GDP reading showed a slight decrease, adding to investors’ worries about an economic recession.
Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 61...
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Let me break into my series on external causes of death into a political aspect of mortality.
A year ago, I pointed out that the Senate was an old folks’ home in more ways than one.
The Senate is based on the Roman Senate, which is based on the Latin term...
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I hope its shambling wreck isn’t resurrected next year, but if Chuck Schumer keeps bringing it up for a vote, and it keeps getting put back into its grave, I’m just fine with that.
While the Democrats keep sticking knives in each others’ backs, let...
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While we wait to hear of Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, here are prior posts I did on Supreme Court mortality.
That’s background...
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I’ve not had a good “How Not To Be A Dumbass” post in a while.
I was going to put this in the next Taxing Tuesday, but this is so stupid, I can’t let it wait.
ORDER OF MAGNITUDE IS IMPORTANT
For those who don’t want to listen to the...
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In November 2019, I looked at a press release announcing a proposed reform/bailout for multiemployer pensions. It addresses multiple problems with MEPs, some of which have been entirely ignored in the other major MEP bailout proposal out there, specifically, the Butch-Lewis Act.
Well, Congress seemed to...
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Well, supposedly.
I guess all the docile French just fall in line because, ya know, process.
About that “falling in line”….
Baton-wielding police...
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