residents have swapped out soda and replaced that soda with beer. Pointedly, the study says Seattle’s soda tax “induced” consumers to buy more beer. …The PLoS study, by University of Illinois-Chicago resear
Professor Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins University wrote a good description of this concept for National Review. Before the rise in central banking (monetary nationalism), the world was dominated by unified currency areas, or blocs, the largest of which was the sterling bloc. As early as 1937,...
There’s now even more evidence to share, thanks tonew academic researchby Gabriel Chodorow-Reich from Harvard, Matthew Smith from the Treasury Department, Owen Zidar from Princeton, and Eric Zwick from the University of Chicago. Here’s the most important finding. The authors have a jargon fil...
“Switzerland, especially in popular votes, has never had a tradition of approving state intervention in the labor markets,” said Daniel Kubler, a professor of political science at the University of Zurich. “A majority of Swiss has always thought, and still seems to think, that liberal ...
By the way, I’m mixing and matching data from several sources, so I’m sure that the numbers from the late 1960s are not a perfect match forthe IMF numbersI used for 1919-2023. That being said, there’s no arguing with the core finding. Massive revenue increases resulted in much hi...
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Mark August 16, 3766 on your calendar. According to…researchers at Tohoku University, that’s the date Japan’s population will dwindle to one. For 25 years, the country has had falling fertility rates, coinciding with widespread aging. The worrisome trend has now reached a critical mass know...