…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…tribal shorthand. “Comparing Sweden’s universal healthcare system with the U.S. private insurance model is a tractable empirical question with measurable outcomes: cost per capita, mortality rates, coverage rates, administrative overhead,…

…of production, even though in the “higher stage of socialism” generally labeled “pure communism,” the state is supposed to “wither away.” Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production,…

…prices to fall so you can buy? You may have a long wait, consumeraffairs.com, Mark Huffman. In spite of a doubling of mortgage rates over the last 12 months, pricing…

…cuts, growth rates should go up and unemployment rates should go down if tax rates go up. There are two reasons this is true. One is that taxes pay for…

…state? National medical exemption rates remained around 0.2% with little variation from the 2014–15 to 2024–25 school years. Of all reporting states in 2024–25 school year, medical exemption rates were…

…News and Media article. It is no secret or exaggeration to say guns (or bullet-spewing-weapons [my label]) are responsible for the loss of thousands of lives yearly. The loss has…

…Voodoo the Elder Bush always said it was. Lowering top marginal rates and taxing capital gains at half the rates of capital income would under my model have the effect…

…liquidating the rail system through radical downsizing and degraded service, all while further damaging the prospects for American manufacturing by charging higher and higher freight rates.  To deal with their…

…the next decade, achieved through a combination of limits on breaks and higher tax rates on ordinary income, capital gains, dividends and estates”); Jackie Calmes, Demystifying the Fiscal Impasse that…