Earl Humphrey here. I'm every Politician's Nightmare: An independent voter who's a retired private investigator and does extensive research before he votes.

Madison, Wisconsin
Joined June 2012
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Florida, once considered a swing state, is firmly Republican – a social anthropologist explains what caused this shift | The Conversation | buff.ly/hSwqEgQ
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Schlock and Awww | The Edgy Optimist | Zachary Karabell | buff.ly/LOJQdQ6
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Apollo's Chief Economist, Torsten Slok, Estimates a 90 Percent Odds of Recession | Economics Matters by Laurence Kotlikoff |buff.ly/UYeUIBB
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The Real Problem With GDP | Tim Harford | buff.ly/eJBxC1P
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The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen | The Verge | Tim Stevens | buff.ly/XZtiNX5 Awesome idea
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An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online | GIZMODO | Vanessa Taylor | buff.ly/2cNuYt6
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Why Macro Forecasting Is Impossible | The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | buff.ly/C9wZowI "There are simply too many variables, each dependent on and reflecting even more variables, to pretend we truly know what will happen next."
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Guest Contribution: “How to Forecast a Recession” | Econbrowser | Menzie Chinn | buff.ly/V3jxtVE Guest post with Jeffrey Frankel
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Craft beer market declines 4% in 2024 | AXIOS | John Frank | buff.ly/H5JNxAq " 9,612 craft breweries were operating last year."
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FDA cuts may mean even less oversight of pet food | The Incidental Economist | Katherine O'Malley | buff.ly/bdPNtgH
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Why taste matters now more than ever | Fast Company | Elliot Vredenburg | buff.ly/HsPMoxb " In the age of AI, design is less about making and more about meaning."
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Always Invert | The Better Letter | Bob Seawright | buff.ly/An4KjcY "...our first goal should be to avoid failure – to limit mistakes."
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The pundit's dilemma | Noah Smith | buff.ly/ROQKIaM "Trumpism will deindustrialize America. That's a hard pill for some thinkers to swallow."
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DHL suspends high value US deliveries over tariffs | BBC | Dearbail Jordan | buff.ly/i2t7vYa
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The U.S. Labor Force Over the Past 150 Years | A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson | buff.ly/r4R90Xi "The combination of AI and robotics will further disrupt the labor force in ways most people can’t even imagine right now."
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Probability of VTRR 90% | Apollo Academy | Torsten Sløk | buff.ly/GryILrx VTRR = Voluntary Trade Reset Recession
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