William Shakespeare, probably b. 460 years ago today, made great money in the theater business & died a mere 52 years later, also on April 23. If alive today, I have the irreverent view that he'd have a special deal writing shows for HBO or Hulu. (Dickens might be at Showtime.)

'Overwhelming majority of Ukrainians support gov't in continuing the fight.' 'Efforts to draft young men hampered by increasing reluctance to join the military.'​ Zelensky has banned opposition parties/media & canceled elections. ​So how does Ian Lovett​ report war's popularity?!

Joyce, do you really think that Biden's reps could not set terms for this NY Times interview that would give ample space for the 'achievements' you cite? I encourage you to stick to writing fiction, while avoiding naive statements about politics & journalism!

For some of us, Passover is seriously tainted by the killing of the first-born of Egypt, including infants & small children, who bore no responsibility for what was happening to the Jews. Tragic echoes of what has been happening in Gaza.

'The transition away from fossil fuels is yielding results.'-NY Times. 'Last year, China got more additional power from coal than from solar & wind, India got 3 times as much, while Bangladesh got 13 times more & Indonesia 90 times more.​'-Bjorn Lomborg nypost.com/2024/04/09/opi…

RBR hits a new low in logic: 'more than a dozen' Kennedy family members favor Biden? As though we're supposed to be swayed by those dozen dummies! (Not that I myself favor RKK Jr after Dave Smith got him to say it's good that aid to Israel enriches our military contractors!)

Get a load of these awesome photographs from our last debate between our director, Gene Epstein , and independent journalist, Joe Nocera - moderated by our COO, Jane Menton. Thank everyone for coming out for a fantastic night, and we hope to see you again very soon!

This coming Tuesday, April 23, on the Soho Forum stage, Brent Orrell Brent Orrell will take the affirmative & Tom Woods the negative, on the resolution: 'Government-imposed restrictions during the Covid pandemic were prudent & essential .' Join us! bit.ly/3JpgtK9

'heat is killing more people than most other natural disasters combined'-R. Jisung Park At least questionable? CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, based on death certificates, indicates twice as many die of 'excessive cold' than of 'excessive heat.'
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'I've said it for years. After military service, paying your taxes is the most patriotic thing we can do.' By endorsing military service as patriotic by definition, Mark Cuban is in effect endorsing every war (Vietnam, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) the US has waged. Really?!

Why CRapitalism? Capitalism: a system of profit & loss. CRapitalism (or crony capitalism): gov't prevents loss & enhances profit (as explained in this debate). Why just call it 'cronyism'? Webster's 'crony'='long-standing close friend.' Hence imprecise. youtube.com/watch?v=79_NIa…

One Key to Why Folks Feel Unenthused? This tracks the 5-year expected price inflation rate from Univ of Mich survey. At 3% per year in April 2024, it's noticeably higher than 2016-2019 (red line) & would be coming on top of prices that've already jumped 22%+ over past 5 years.

Re Lib debates re immigrants: Dave Smith rightly noted folks have a natural right to birth babies, but doesn't follow that your 6 kids thus have an automatic claim on schooling, medical care... So in that sense, Chris Freiman rightly analogized domestic offspring w/immigrants.

The video Martin Fridson, Editor, https://isinewsletter.com is graciously referring to: 'The Dirty Data of Declining Labor Share Myths,' starting at around 11:00, in which I explain the errors underlying the myth that labor is getting a noticeably lower share of output than it used to.
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