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Four charts to overcome your pessimism about how recent generations are doing economically
Jeremy Horpedahl ๐ฅ๐
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Jeremy Horpedahl ๐ฅ๐
@jmhorp
Dad, Economist, and Arkansan.
Associate Professor @UCAbusiness, Director @ACRE_UCA, Adjunct Scholar @CatoInstitute. Tweets are mine
- Water is one molecule away from hydrogen peroxide Salt is one molecule away from bleach
- South Korea Population: 51 million COVID deaths: 492 South Dakota Population: 0.88 million COVID deaths: 568
- Soft drink companies use sugar substitutes because of high tariffs on sugar. If you mandate that they use sugar instead of corn syrup, without also removing the tariff, this will cause... prices of soft drinks to increaseBREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly intends to require Coca-Cola to begin using Cane Sugar instead of High-Fructose Syrup as HHS Secretary.
- "You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.โ - Pres. ReaganImagine your parents moved to Italy in the 70s and you claimed you were โjust as Italianโ as a centuries-long family from Sicily That's what the American question is all about
- There are over 600 car accidents in New York City *every single day*. Why is the NY Post reporting on one minor accident 600 miles from NYC? (No one was hurt)Haitian motorist making illegal turn in Springfield, Ohio, smashes into mom driving with autistic daughter trib.al/Nd9Xcgs
- We've sure come a long way from "Hillary used a private server for some emails" to "DOGE just exported the entire Social Security database to a private server""senior Trump appointees at the SSA who were recently part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team made the copy"
- He could give each American $1 million and still have money left overAs of today, Elon Musk is worth $351.2 Billion.
Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextThere are approximately 350 million Americans, Musk could give each American ~$1000, not 1 million. worldometers.info/world-populatiโฆ. - Where are people buying groceries? This order is $18 at my local Walmart, not $50
- Oh wow. Lots of waste, fraud, and abuse to investigate!
- According to the USDA, almost 90% of SNAP recipients are born in the US, and another 6% are naturalized citizens
01:4159% of food stamp recipients arenโt even American?!Readers added contextAccording to the USDA, almost 90% of SNAP recipients are born in the US, and another 6% are naturalized citizens. Table 3.6: fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/โฆ
