Econocentric

 Want to know why you see so many crazy people on the streets and in social media? 1955: 161 million American citizens 1955: 560k mental asy...

Liberals always complain that The Rich are not paying their "fair share" of taxes. Whatever that share is , it seems to be increas...

 The media says we have a gun problem. I'd say it looks like something else. Firearm Homicides per 100,000 population   US Whites     ...

 

You hear everywhere "Hurricanes are getting more severe and frequent because of CLIMATE CHANGE!" Maybe this a better example of ...

The inconvenient fact about the climate is that we are in an all-time cooling period. It may be reverting to a more normal warm period. If s...

 Contrary to what you hear from Democrats, the US tax system is highly progressive. 

There is always much handwringing about the "racial gap" in wealth. It's casually treated as a result of racism. Yet look at t...

 Whatever you think about "Bidenomics", it did not increase wealth. 

 Lower tax RATES for the highest incomes result in a greater tax burden, not a lesser one.  The simple reason is that when you can keep more...

Trillions of dollars spent to produce negligible temperature change. 

 Here's a partial list of things made from petroleum we'd have to live without. 

 

What happened? Capitalism happened. And the US practiced it at a higher level. 

Wondering why elite schools like Harvard resort to blatant anti-Asian discrimination?  Do you think this might be one of the reasons for the...

There is an inverse correlation here with educational achievement. If you wanted to improve the performance of black kids and get more of th...

The media can't figure out why they aren't believed anymore. I can come up with a few reasons for that. Russian Collusion “Very fi...

 Yes, I know facts are racist (along with roads and math), but . . .

 

Little difference in Covid deaths in lockdown states versus free states. Huge difference in economic damage.  

According to their "equity" goals, shouldn't colleges be making it harder for women to gain admission? 

This is what happens when you lock kids out of school for two years on the pretense of protecting them from a virus. 

I wonder how this happened. Bet it had something to do with government control. 

 You can hear just about every day Democrats complaining that our debt explosion was caused by Trump's "tax cuts for the rich"...

 Ever wonder why some countries might have had a lower Covid mortality rate than the US? 

 Does this look like a revenue problem? Or a Spending Problem? 

 According to the Crime Prevention Research Center , only 1% of US counties with 20% of US population account for 42% of homicides. Democrat...

 Why is healthcare so expensive?

Climate change alarmists routinely cite increasing incidence and severity of heat waves, hurricanes  and tornadoes. Facts do not stand in th...

 Not one EXPERT has admitted that these mask mandates in Austria utterly failed

Want to see why our economy is not growing faster? In one easy chart? You can replicate this on your own if you like. Divide your portfo...

Go back to work and take a pay cut? In Washington State the jobs would have to pay you $122,000 in order for your family to be better off th...

 Can we once and for all put an end to myth that wearing masks stops a virus from spreading? 

A recent Newsweek poll found these results. Countering this level of stupidity is a pretty daunting task. And gives you some insight into wh...

Any economist could tell you what will happen when you make less qualified people perform any task. 

But the truer you are to capitalistic principles the better off you are. 

Federal tax collections are near an all-time high. 

 After taxes and transfer payments form government, middle class working families are not any better off than those who are working little o...

This study from researchers at  Harvard and the University of Exeter brings facts to the arguments about whether government handouts are pro...

 Why are Americans so sad? Possible answers: 1. The more you have the more obsessed you are with what you don't have. 2. Easy solutions ...

Could there be any stronger evidence that mask mandates did absolutely nothing to alter the spread of Covid?  And yet there are still people...

BLM and their media friends often cite the fact that police shootings disproportionately involve black men more than white men. What they av...

 The data on mask mandates is pretty conclusive -- and one sided. If masks had an effect, those red lines below would be higher than the bla...

 After 15 years of moving toward and achieving energy independence, the Biden administration is moving us in he opposite direction. 

It's always been obvious that the majority of our fellow countrymen are woefully out of touch with reality, but once in a while you come...

It has been documented that Democrats are still more likely to stay at home than go out to work, shop or eat at restaurants . They are more ...

When California lifted its mask mandate, Santa Clara County insisted on keeping theirs. The infection rates in Santa Clara are identical to ...

We have listened to the lockdown governors tell us to "mask up" for two years. Two years of wearing an appurtenance that does abso...

A new report from the CDC , looks at the risks of Covid: Among 1,228,664 persons who completed primary vaccination during December 2020–Octo...

  Representative Pramilla Jayapal (Socialist, WA and whackadoodle chairman of the House Progressive Caucus),  blamed “corporate greed”  for ...

 The CDC's own data shows that masks mandates don't do anything to stop the virus. Why do they keep putting out the mask myth? 

  Oxfam’s new report rails against a “40-year period of neoliberalism, during which economic policy choices have been purchased by rich, pow...

    This is pretty clearly driven by the media. The more time you spend amongst a group (like listening to Fox News CNN), the more “extreme”...

 From the wonderful book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (written 10 years ago). One of the experiments he did was pose this ques...

 An update on the relative price change of different sectors. As always, it is goods and services that are subsidized by government that are...