#policy failure

[itsmythang]

Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton:

"It is shocking that Trump said no one informed him that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz. I find it unbelievable that one of the fundamental pillars of geopolitical strategy in the Middle East was ignored. That was the first thing we assumed Iran would do. It is their main tool of global leverage. We are now seeing the consequences of a foreign policy driven by impulse rather than strategy.

Vote for a racist idiot

A very critical point is that trump acts strictly on impulse. There is no strategy. There is no analysis. There is no plan. It’s all impulse all the time from someone who lacks critical thinking, is a recognized narcissist and a documented serial liar.

I'm disgusted with this blundering, blathering imbecile and his ship of fools. Let fleas and flies and bedbugs swarm every voter who put this uneducated dumb guy in charge of the country--because, not-so-bright themselves, it didn't occur to them that Just Maybe the person charged with one of the most difficult jobs on earth should be filled by someone

I blame it on the theory of white supremacy. We had a president who rescued our economy from Bush, no wars and global respect, but he was black and the white guys got mad so they had to reclaim the presidency as a white job.geable and SMART. I mean... Yeah. What a concept.

Hillary cooked. MAGA walking around all proud like "this is what we voted for" or "Best President ever" (what???🙃as if they understood politics, economics or history.

[ruigiraccoon]

[iyemarathichiyenagari1971]

एवढे सगळे अनर्थ एका जमीन अधिग्रहण कायद्यामुळे

भूसंपादन प्रक्रियेतील प्रशासनातील अधिकारी व सत्ताधारी शेतकऱ्यांच्या अजाणतेचा फायदा घेऊन, विविध प्रकल्पामध्ये, कायद्याचे उल्लंघन करून त्यांची जमीन गिळंकृत करतात. त्याचे प्रतिनिधीक उदाहरण म्हणून कै. धर्मा पाटील यांच्या आत्महत्या कडे पाहीले पाहीजे. महाराष्ट्रात व देशात असे असंख्य धर्मा पाटील आहेत ज्यांच्यावर अन्याय झालेला आहे. सतीश देशमुख, B. E. (Mech).अध्यक्ष, फोरम ऑफ…

एवढे सगळे अनर्थ एका जमीन अधिग्रहण कायद्यामुळे

[zzkt]

The question, “What if the policy demands that we hurl hundreds of squirrels into an industrial shredder?” arose too late.

—Tim Harford, Who’s responsible for our accountability problem?

[bothpartiesarebad]

(via Leftist Abolish Prison Mass Incarceration Bumper Sticker - Etsy)

[hennethgalad]

The ‘zero-Covid’ approach got bad press, but it worked – and it could work again | Laura Spinney

The places that chose to pursue elimination suffered less overall. Unfortunately, few had the determination to do so, says science writer La

"The virus deprives us of liberty; the efforts preserve it."

Covid: 1

Capitalism: 0

[mamomvpy]

Yellen should re-read Friedman's "The Role of Monetary Policy" and lay the Phillips curve to rest

It is the same thing every month – anybody seriously interested in financial markets and the global economy are sitting and waiting for the US labour market report to come out even though the numbers are notoriously unstable and unreliable. Why is that? The simple answer is that it is not because the numbers are important on their own, but because the Federal Reserve seems to think the labor…

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[absurdlakefront]

After incomes at all levels declined as a result of the Great Recession, income growth has been lopsided since the recovery began in 2009, with the top 1 percent capturing an alarming share of economic growth.

University of California at Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez estimates that between 2009 and 2012, the top 1 percent captured 95 percent of total income growth.

Data for individual states show that rising inequality is a pervasive trend: Between 2009 and 2012, in 39 states the top 1 percent captured between half and all income growth.

The states in which all income growth between 2009 and 2012 accrued to the top 1 percent include Delaware, Florida, Missouri, South Carolina, North Carolina, Connecticut, Washington, Louisiana, California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Massachusetts, Colorado, New York, Rhode Island, and Nevada.

The remaining states in which the top 1 percent captured half or more of income growth between 2009 and 2012 include Alabama (where 98.9 percent of all income growth was captured by the top 1 percent), Illinois (97.2 percent), Texas (86.8 percent), Arkansas (83.7 percent), Michigan (82.0 percent), New Jersey (80.5 percent), Maryland (80.5 percent), Nebraska (74.9 percent), Kansas (74.4 percent), Ohio (71.9 percent), Wisconsin (69.6 percent), Oklahoma (69.2 percent), Tennessee (68.5 percent), Iowa (65.0 percent), Georgia (63.6 percent), New Hampshire (59.5 percent), Arizona (59.0 percent), Maine (58.3 percent), Oregon (57.3 percent), Utah (56.6 percent), Minnesota (56.0 percent), and South Dakota (53.4 percent). 

Lopsided income growth is also a long-term trend. Between 1979 and 2007, the top 1 percent took home well over half (53.9 percent) of the total increase in U.S. income. Over this period, the average income of the bottom 99 percent of U.S. taxpayers grew by 18.9 percent. Simultaneously, the average income of the top 1 percent grew over 10 times as much—by 200.5 percent.

In four states (Nevada, Wyoming, Michigan, and Alaska), only the top 1 percent experienced rising incomes between 1979 and 2007, and the average income of the bottom 99 percent fell.