James Pethokoukis
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Analysis: Why it could be a Biden blowout in November
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Poll of the week: A new ABC News/Washington Post poll from Minnesota finds Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with a 57% to 41% lead over President Donald Trump among likely voters.
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James Pethokoukis "It is our mistake, though, to assume any cosmic companions are intelligent, akin to elephants assuming aliens have trunks. ... The cleverer we get, the more dangerous our technologies become. One human being could wipe out life on Earth.” 16h
Coronavirus is heat tolerant, self-healing and very resilient in lab tests
South China Morning Post 51h 3 tweets
Hungarian team finds virus particle withstands being probed by a nano needle 100 times, possibly making it the most physically elastic virus known
James Pethokoukis "Its mechanical and self-healing properties may ensure adaptation to a wide range of environmental circumstances” " via 27h
How trade openness can help to ‘deliver the poor and needy’
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White Sox clinch their 1st postseason berth since 2008
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The Chicago White Sox are headed to the postseason for the first time since 2008 after beating the Minnesota Twins 4-3 Thursday at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States
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James Pethokoukis But what about slower checkout lines? 🙄 | "The findings suggest that immigrants act more as 'job creators' than 'job takers and that non-U.S. born founders play outsized roles in U.S. high-growth entrepreneurship." 3d
Meet the Man Behind QAnon—America's Fastest Growing Cult
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Jim Watkins owns 8kun—formerly 8chan—where the mysterious figure of QAnon posts cryptic messages to millions of crazed followers. Watkins also runs a super PAC supporting pro-QAnon candidates. His former business partner, and 8chan's founder,...
Economic Ratings Slightly Better; U.S. Mood Unchanged
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Americans' evaluations of the economy are marginally better than in August, but their satisfaction with the state of the nation is unchanged and stuck near historical lows.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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On the link between US pay and productivity
Voxeu.org 943d 9 tweets
Since 1973, there has been divergence between labour productivity and the typical worker’s pay in the US as productivity has continued to grow strongly and growth in average compensation has slowed substantially. This column explores the causes and...
James Pethokoukis 5/ And bigger income gains if faster productivity growth. Looking at 1975-2015, economists Stansbury and Summers find a percentage-point increase in productivity growth predicts a three-quarter point increase in average and median compensation growth. 4d
3 charts showing good news about American wage growth | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
American Enterprise Institute - AEI 232d 2 tweets
Democratic presidential candidates remain dismissive of the American economy and its record-long expansion. They fail to recognize that wages are rising, and they're rising fastest for those at the bottom.
James Pethokoukis 3/ ... and that was for workers in the top, middle, and bottom third. And that was accounting for inflation. And that was even separating out the minimum wage. You can mostly thank a long economic expansion. 4d
If There Really Is Life On Venus, We Could Be Doomed
Forbes 4d 1 tweets
The presence of life on Venus could indicate that our civilization is heading for extinction.
New QAnon-Allied GOP Senate Candidate Also Pushed Anti-Semitism, Flat Earthism, and 9/11 Conspiracies
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee did not return a request for comment.
COVID outcomes update: Health and employment impacts in the US compared to other countries
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Harry Holzer explores the data on health and employment outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that in both areas the the U.S. has had worse results than other OECD nations.
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James Pethokoukis “I think market participants have a sense if things start to sour in terms of economic performance that the Fed will provide further stimulus and in some sense remove a good chunk of the downside tail risk for them,” said Mr Sheets of PGIM Fixed Income" 📈 5d
U.S. Incomes Up, Poverty Rate Down in 2019
Janet Adamy - WSJ 5d 3 tweets
Median household income climbed 6.8% from 2018—while the poverty rate was 10.5%, a drop of 1.3 percentage points—in the final year of the country’s decadelong economic expansion.
Racism Is Real. But Is “Systemic Racism”? That Time I Was Published by Newsweek—For Two Hours
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The opinion editor of Newsweek should be commended for striving to publish a diversity of views at the site, but its editor-in-chief committed journalistic malpractice by taking down an essay already published in order to reschedule it when it could...
The Price of Unrealistic Optimism | National Review
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Normalcy bias can be a powerful force in human thinking, but long into a crisis before it becomes inexcusable?
Eisenhower Memorial, Delayed by Design Disputes, Opens This Week
Peter Baker - Nytimes.com 6d 3 tweets
The memorial in Washington, D.C., pays tribute to the general who led the Allies to victory in Europe during World War II and the president who sought peace after it was over.