A recent study by researchers at The Ohio State University has uncovered a startling disparity in the impact of "deaths of despair" across racial lines in the United States. read more
The 2024 Global E-waste Monitor (GEM) [PDF] was prepared by the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The report reveals that annual generation of e-waste -- discarded devices with a plug or battery -- is growing at a rate of 2.6 million metric tons per year (a metric ton is equivalent to roughly 2,204.62 pounds -- all units in this story are metric) and is expected to reach 82 million tons by 2030, from 62 million tons in 2022. Those 62 million tons, the report suggests, would fill 1.55 million 40-ton trucks, which would roughly encircle the equator -- if you parked them end-to-end and paved the relevant oceans. And that's to say nothing of the economic consequences of taking so many trucks out of service and disrupting global shipping routes with an equatorial parking structure, so let's not.
The United States has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, warning that drone strikes risk provoking retaliation and driving up global oil prices, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The attacks helped boost oil prices that have risen nearly 4% so far since March 12, when Ukraine first started targeting Russia's energy infrastructure. A further rally in gasoline prices in the United States would weaken President Joe Biden ratings and undermine his re-election chances.
Proposition 1, the ballot measure supported by Gov. Gavin Newsom that he says will be a "radically different" approach to tackling California's homelessness crisis, passed on Wednesday evening, according to the Associated Press. read more
While speaking about the potential loss of U.S. auto manufacturing jobs to foreign countries, former President Donald Trump said if he isn't elected, "it's going to be a bloodbath for the country." President Joe Biden's campaign quickly accused Trump of fomenting "political violence." "If you actually watch and listen to the section, he was talking about the auto industry and tariffs," Steven Cheung, a spokesman for Trump's campaign, told the Washington Post, adding that "Biden's policies will create an economic bloodbath for the auto industry and autoworkers." read more
Conservatives always tell me this is how capitalism is supposed to work.
#20 | POSTED BY JOE AT 2024-03-25 09:41 AM | FLAG:
It's an idea of how capitalism works, where the actors are prone to irrational behavior but the market works itself out. Thesis: How can markets be efficient if economic actors are irrational? Irrationality is the result of high subjective costs of transaction, which can be reduced through a variety of social and cognitive mechanisms. These mechanisms allow for market efficiency even with actors prone to highly irrational decision-making.
and since people are scared of flying Boeing because of Boeing's corrupt corporate culture, your alternative again, is Airbus, with it's corrupt corporate culture investigated from 2004 to 2016, by multiple countries, and they had to buy their way out of criminal charges.. and these completely rational and informed people jump off that 737 to fly in an A320 which is part of an ever expanding grounding for engine failures. I'm not the greatest pilot, but overriding the many flight systems that effect the tail is 1 button, and engine failures can't be over-ridden, and you have no idea if the plane you're on should have been grounded or not.
"The settlement with the authorities in France, Britain and the United States closes four years of investigations into accusations that Airbus, between 2004 and 2016, used intermediaries to bribe public officials in numerous countries to buy its planes and satellites. The episode had tarnished the company's reputation and forced it to make sweeping changes to top management. It also allows Airbus to avoid criminal charges that, if proved, could have crippled its business by prohibiting the company from seeking public contracts in Europe and the United States. Airbus will be subject to three years of "light compliance monitoring" in France, the nation's anticorruption agency said Friday."
Reason has been thrown out the window in favor of media hysteria.