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Americans are borrowing money again, especially in the most healthy form, credit card debt.
Does the Fed really contribute to economic inequality? Yes, kinda.
Great, now Obamacare is rationing medications and keeping antibiotics away from out most vulnerable population, chickens.
TNC and his book club read Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, a book about our mass incarceration of minority youth.
Young doctors have twice the national average suicide rates.
The UN is pretty much pro American.
We examine, over a 60 year period, the nationalities of the most senior positions in the United Nations Secretariat, ostensibly the world's most representative international institution. The results indicate which nations are successful in this zero-sum game, and what national characteristics correlate with power in international institutions. The most overrepresented countries are small, rich democracies like the Nordic countries. Statistically, democracy, investment in diplomacy, and economic/military power are predictors of senior positions--even after controlling for the U.N. staffi ng mandate of competence and integrity. National control over the United Nations is remarkably sticky; however the in influence of the United States has diminished as US ideology has shifted away from its early allies. In spite of the decline in US influence, the Secretariat remains pro-American relative to the world at large.The US is tracking threats against it form Islamic extremist groups. You don't say? Well at least you reported on the obvious so everyone could be afraid some more.
So, it looks like those self checkout lanes are stealing all of our credit card information. I'm thinking I'll just shop at Amazon.
Cell phone data can be used to track and predict crime. Still no word on the legality of arresting people for crimes they are statistically likely to commit in the future.
Has there been collusion among video game reviewers? Well, they all seem to hate that Destiny game.
Great, yet another reality show making the South the laughingstock of the nation.
Speaking of monsters, Iceland has found the Lagarfilotsormurrin living in one of it's lakes. It's a streetlight.
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