Most of the girls are sterilized, the others, who are potential ovary providers, are drilled to take contraceptives, for bearing children is unthinkable, and "mother" and "father" are even indecent words. A monogamous relationship would also be indecent, but sex is an ordinary theme, because ...
Now, ina New York Times essay about ending poverty, Annie Lowrey shares an economic perspective that is the most encouraging thing I’ve read in months: This deadly and cyclical form of poverty is already on its way toward obsolescence, and much faster than many development economists expected....
This chart shows the process at work after 2008. The NFIB survey showed a collapse in the desire of small businesses to hold inventory. Meanwhile their suppliers (large businesses represented in the ISM data) continued to expect an increase in demand as they viewed their customers’ inventory le...