Former Chinese leader Hu Jintao mysteriously escorted out of the Great Hall of the People ahead of an expected speech by President Xi at the end of the CCP's Party Congress1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Xi Jinping says, “The East is rising, the West is declining.” He’s wrong.2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
A boy born in Rwanda in 2021 has a higher life expectancy (70) than a Black man in the United States (67).1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Those ages 50 and older produce roughly half of all tweets from U.S. adult Twitter users – and 78% of all political tweets2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
For first time ever, there's more People Living Alone (37.9M) than Households with a Child (33.9M)1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
This would be a comically silly post, if it wasn’t coming from the head of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Do people realize that immigration to the U.S. has dropped by half just since 2016?2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
In 2003 the average immigration form was 3 pages and total length of all required forms 193 pages. In 2022 the average form is 10 pages and total length of all required forms 701 pages.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Immigration is America's superpower, so this should be raising alarm bells for policymakers:2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
New CBO report: The poorest *half* of America -- ~150 million people -- hold only *2 percent* of the country's total wealth1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Pedestrian fatalities are falling in countries around the world. In the US they're rising.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
7 million men aged 25-54 in the USA are not working. What are they doing?1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Married men work substantially more hours than men who have never been married, even after controlling for observables.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Trump signed a law in 2018 making the removal of classified documents a felony.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
When we say Kyiv is winning the information war, far too often we only mean information spaces we inhabit2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Governor of Texas Greg Abbott signed an executive order listing Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
LGBT Identification Has Been Stable in Older Generations, Rising in Younger (2/17)2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Indian-origin Family Installs Amitabh Bachchan’s Life-size Statue outside their Home in USA for $750001yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/india
Taiwan must have the most extreme ratio of claimed territory to actually controlled territory of any country in the world1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
CBS poll: Does Roe v. Wade change motivation to vote and be politically active?2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Public Lays Blame for Student Debt Forgiveness Limbo on Conservative Judges, Republicans in Congress1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Time of the latest sunrise of the year if daylight savings time is made permanent2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Unanimous vote for China’s president Xi Jinping. 2,952 delegates voted in favour of this, no objections, none abstaining. Whole process democracy (TM).1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
New self-storage facility in the middle of Manhattan. You’re not allowed to build housing here (and the politics of rezoning are too difficult and toxic to ch-ange it), and the office market is weak, so self-storage it is 🙄1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
UMASS Poll: 46% of Americans Want No-fly Zone over Ukraine even if it Risks Nuclear War (3/24)2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
The Dallas Fed surveyed over 100 oil and gas executives, and they gave one overwhelming reason why there hasn't been more domestic energy production. Hint, its not ESG or Biden.2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Another indicator that WFH is permanent: public transit journeys stabilizing at 35% below 2019 levels. Concerned for the health of public transit systems since cost are heavily fixed.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
After a Slump, Legal Immigration to the United States Is Returning to Pre-Pandemic Levels1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
MRW I (a person experiencing liquidity), is told I need to pay fast food workers a living wage.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Violent crime is a key midterm voting issue, but what does the data say?1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades. Pre-pandemic WFH was trending towards 5% of days by 2022. Now WFH is now stabilizing at 30%, a 6-fold jump.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Partisanship colors Democrats’ and Republicans’ views of the country’s most pressing foreign policy issues1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
New paper finds working from home saved workers in 27 countries an avg of 72 mins/day of commuting time in 2021-22 (55 mins in the USA)1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Immigrants are responsible for 36% of total innovation, 2/3 of which is due to their innovation externalities on their native-born collaborators1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Pakistan's deadly floods have created a massive 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images show1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Yellow states have sanctioned Russia, gray have not. Nearly the entire Global South hasn’t sanctioned Russia and their condemnation likely isn’t coming any time soon.2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
1/4 of international students at US universities find jobs in the state they graduated.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Only two percent of Taiwan's 23.5 million people identified as solely Chinese, down from 25 percent three decades ago.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Last Year’s ‘Historic’ Gas Price Surge Cost U.S. Drivers Just 36 Cents More Per Day1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
New paper from UC Berkeley finds that new housing made rents within 100m fall by 2% and displacement risk fall by 17%1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
New letter from conservatives says McCarthy hasn't gone far enough. Speaker election is Tues and 9 Rs are still skeptical.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
This is just an incredible inclusion in China’s new communique on “US Hegemony and Its Perils.”1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Congestion pricing in NYC is the perfect case study of what’s wrong with NEPA. This is the 4,007-page environmental assessment that took 3 years to produce even though the state legislature approved congestion pricing in 2019.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Labour force participation for white American women is only 55%. I knew it was low. I didnt know it was this low.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
New polling data from NCCU: Only 1.2% of Taiwanese want unification with the PRC.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Leaked SoCal hospital records reveal huge, automated markups for healthcare2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Nearly a quarter of tenure-track faculty have a parent with a PhD; US faculty members have a parent with a PhD roughly 25 times more often than the general population, with nearly double that rate at prestigious universities1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Native Siberians and North Caucasians* are hugely overrepresented among the Russian casualties in Ukraine. Looks like Russia is ready to fight till the last indigenous person, solving two problems at once.2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Two-thirds of Republicans want Trump to remain a major political figure, with 44% saying he should run again in 20242yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Since 1970, Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left.2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Latinos See U.S. as Better Than Place of Family’s Ancestry for Opportunity, Raising Kids, Health Care Access2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Gasoline prices plunging. Terrorist targeted and taken out. Nancy gets her trip to Taiwan. Dude is on a roll.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
More than half of Americans support a maximum age limit for elected officials2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Economist/YouGov: A growing number of Americans say immigration makes the country worse off (10.5.2021)2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
New privately owned housing unit authorizations, by state, 1980-20202yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Good policy implementation is dependent on good evidence; don’t let your personal wishes distort reality2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
SUVs are so wasteful that electrifying them can *worsen* climate change.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Morning Consult poll: Trump’s 2024 Strength Is Increasing, and GOP Voters Prefer DeSantis as His Running Mate (3/24)2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
A growing share of Americans say affordable housing is a major problem where they live2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Privatizing Infrastructure: When private equity funds buy airports from governments, the number of airlines and routes served increases, operating income rises, and the customer experience improves.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Americans at the ends of the ideological spectrum are the most active in national politics2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Latest from the Centre for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-term Forecasting: Russian inflation 20-23%; GDP -6.3-6.6%; unemployment 7-7.3% (from 4.8% last year).2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/ArchitecturePorn
The total number of people working part time voluntarily—22.1 million in January—is now almost six times the 4.1 million who are working part time but would prefer full-time hours.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
The average worker... is willing to give up one percent of wage (550 dollars on average) to get just a 0.25 percentage point increase in employer retirement contributions (110 dollars on average).1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Don’t like sprawl? Just call It something else. State of Florida edition.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
“The Great Resignation Was Caused by the COVID-19 Housing Boom. If housing returns in 2021 would have been equal to 2019 returns, there would have been no decline in the labor force participation of older Americans.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
US temperature records set in 2021; Orange = all-time high, Blue = all-time low2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
SMH, another thing the top 10% is proportionally hoarding, trickle down carbonomics doesn’t work2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
The capital intensity of chip industry is staggering. 5 big spenders, not including intel, are currently spending $35 bn (entire value of Chip Act credits) PER QUARTER! In 3 MONTHS!1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Russia is exporting more crude than ever. Oil tankers are flagged all over the place to conceal ownership. The IIF built a web crawler that goes from shell company to shell company to find the owner. Russia exports so much oil thanks to Greek-owned oil tankers1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Growing share of Americans say they want more spending on police in their area2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Unions prevailed in 639 NLRB elections in the first half of the year, according to Bloomberg Law’s just-released NLRB Election Statistics report. That’s the highest H1 win total for labor in nearly 20 years.1yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
Many feel that the “other” has an easier time expressing their free speech rights2yr ⋅ badatmathdave ⋅ r/neoliberal
