Climate change and California are not getting on very well.
Social Policy
I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness. Chapter 4 has just been published. A ‘top 10’ overview of the chapter can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/emergency-facilities/ The full chapter is available here:https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Falvo-Chapter-4-Emergency-Facilities-30jan2023.pdf And all material related to the book can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/book/
The press talked up the UK's drop in the Corruption Perception Index. But the UK has long been an engine of corrupt conduct around the world.
Valiant attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing. People much smarter than me have developed fancy indices, and people even smarter than that, such as our own Nicholas Gruen, has called bullshit on many of them. What I … Continue reading
Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
CARE courts to force treatment on those deemed mentally ill and could result in state conservatorship.
Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
Monte Albán, which was a major regional urban center for 1,300 years, is a powerful case study that early investments in public infrastructure and goods foster longer-term sustainability.
Is the press unduly excited about the start of China's expected demographic decline?
Unfortunately, it's prudent to be mindful of what our Davos overlords are plotting. But they seem mighty unsettled.