The top earners pay a bigger share of the government tab than in the past because their incomes have risen so sharply — [...]
The first big, basic difference has to do with what I consider to be the most underappreciated fact [...]
Donohue and Levitt (2001) attribute over half of the decline in U.S. crime rates during the [...]
“Craigslist has become the high-tech 42nd Street, where much of the solicitation takes place now,” said Richard McGuire, Nassau’s assistant chief of detectives. “Technology has worked its way into every profession, including the oldest.”[...]
With the Canadian dollar surging against the U.S. greenback, Robert Katzman is dealing with situations they don't teach in Economics 101.
The owner of five strip clubs in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, says American [...]
“BECAUSE academics may be unfamiliar with the gentlemen's club sub-culture, some background may be helpful to understand why this is an ideal setting for understanding real-world attractiveness effects of human female oestrus.”No doubt [...]
When used judiciously, swearing can be hilarious, poignant, and uncannily descriptive. More than any other form of language, it recruits our expressive faculties to the fullest: the combinatorial power of [...]
In a typical year, most new home sales occur between March and August. In each of those months we usually might expect 35% more homes to be sold than at the seasonal low in December. This August, home sales [...]
I think the Fed should stop caring about recessions. In [...]
Driven by a combination of climate change, trade policies and competition for cattle feed from biofuel producers, global milk prices have doubled over the last two years. In parts of the United States, milk is more expensive than gasoline. There are reports of cows [...]
Home foreclosures in La Crosse County this year are up by nearly a third over the pace in 2006, mirroring a statewide rise of nearly two-thirds.
Fifty-two La Crosse County properties have been [...]
Back in the library, the singer-songwriter's demo is ending. Rubin opens his eyes, blinks and says to Kusatsu: "We may have found one. Does he have any other songs I can hear?" While [...]
Back in the library, the singer-songwriter's demo is ending. Rubin opens his eyes, blinks and says to Kusatsu: "We may have found one. Does he have any other songs I can hear?" While [...]
During the period from 1990 to 2002, U.S. households experienced a [...]
A recent tribune article reports foreclosed properties are up from 2006 for La Crosse county.
Home foreclosures in La Crosse County this year are up by nearly a third over the pace in 2006, mirroring a statewide rise of nearly two-thirds.
Fifty-two La Crosse County properties [...]
Unexpected candidness is a recurring theme of our CE-Oh no! series of posts, but this latest example from Bill Watkins, the CEO of Seagate, truly takes the biscuit. At a recent corporate dinner in San Francisco, the Texan CEO produced [...]
Do women, on average, have a different profile of aptitudes and emotions than men? YESWere the events in the Bible fictitious -- not just [...]
Couple accused of exposure [...]
From The Economist print edition: A new vaccine sparks controversy
“THE governor's action seems to signify that God's moral [...]
High-testosterone men fight hardest for a large cut, the researchers found. But the most testosterone-driven men were also the most [...]
Ten Years in Prison for 17-Year-Old Who Had Consensual Oral Sex with 15-Year-Old: The Georgia Supreme Court just upheld this. The sentence strikes me as unduly harsh even on its own terms, but it seems especially unjustifiable given that:
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A cuckold is a married man whose wife has sex with other men. In current usage it sometimes [...]
'Girls Gone Wild' fined $1.6 million
The "Girls Gone Wild" video empire agreed to pay $1.6 million and its founder was sentenced to community service Wednesday for filming drunken, underage girls in the raunchy videos. The guilty pleas by Mantra Films Inc. and [...]
Estate tax fails to meet standards of a ‘good tax’
By TAGGERT J. BROOKS / La Crosse
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Five facts about prices
Emi Nakamura and Jon Steinsson from
Harvard University present Five Facts About Prices: A Reevaluation of Menu Cost Models (PDF):
We establish five facts about prices in the U.S. economy:
1) The median duration of [...]
But Ms. McGee, 51, a popular art teacher with 28 years in the classroom, is out of a job after leading her fifth-grade classes last April through the Dallas Museum of Art. [...]
Three Wisconsin men have been charged with attempted misdemeanor theft and third-degree sexual assault after attempting to steal a corpse from [...]
...we conjecture that binge drinking conveys unobserved social skills that are rewarded by employers.
Here is the full and very carefully done paper. I've known for a while there is a correlation between drinking and wages, but only recently have I started thinking it [...]
In this note we test if unemployment has an effect on mortality using a large individual level data set of nearly 30,000 individuals in Sweden aged 20–64 years followed-up for 10–17 years. We follow individuals over time [...]
