Happy 89th birthday (June 30) to Thomas Sowell, one of the greatest living economists
Mark J. Perry
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Mark J. Perry
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Economics prof. (emeritus), AEI scholar (emeritus), & ex-blogger. CH❤️ Recovering musician. He/He/He
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Joined February 2009
- The University of Michigan Has At Least 82 Full-Time Diversity Officers at a Total Annual Payroll Cost of $10.6M. That Would Support Full In-State Tuition for 708 Students.
- Reversing a 75-year trend of lower tariff rates, Team Trump's tariffs are expected to take tariff rates to 8.4% this year, the highest since 1948. Reminder: There is NO example in the history of advanced economies when sweeping tariffs had the positive effects the
- Q: What did socialists use before candles? A: Electricity.
- Median Household Income and Share of Births to Unwed Mothers by Race in 2019. See Any Patterns?
- The amazing 80% reduction in world poverty from 42.3% in 1981 to 8.6% in 2018. It probably took 1,000 years to cut the poverty rate in half from to 84% to 42% in 1981; then 24 years to get to 21% in 2005 and then only 10 years to cut it in half again to 10% in 2015. #Capitalism
- Some Data to Ponder Now That Calling America ‘A Land Of Opportunity’ Is Considered to Be A Microaggression
- Just out today: @OhioState has a small army of 132 "diversicrats" at an avg. salary of $77,000 and total est. payroll cost of $13.4M, which would cover in-state tuition for 1,120 students apps.hr.osu.edu/salaries/ @jennsmola @CollegeFix @FreemanWSJ @stevenfhayward @charliekirk11
- If you fell out of your chair upon realizing that the University of Michigan has a full-time diversity staff of nearly one hundred employees, one of whom earns more than the president of the United States, you can be forgiven. I nearly did too. intellectualtakeout.org/article/divers…
- Some interesting Census Bureau data on median household income of Asian Americans vs. White Households.
- Top 20 Most Dangerous US Jobs and Percent Male, Updated for 2016, New Data for 2017 Will Be Out Later This Month @jordanbpeterson @CHSommers
- Some Ivy League stats: 1. Undergraduate enrollment at the 8 Ivy League schools is 61,100. 2. Black enrollment at the Ivies is 7% or 4,277. 3. Average SAT scores at the Ivies is in the 1500s = 98th percentile or higher. 4. Average SAT score for Blacks = 907 or 23rd
