National healthcare with one weird trick

It depends on the state

Well if it’s real, it will be a no brainer Nobel prize, so it certainly won’t be the last we hear of it in that case.

You’re being weirdly pedantic about everything here. I’m trying to figure out why.

That’d be insane

My guy that’s the point of this whole post. He’s insane.

Ok? I’m not defending this shit bag, just trying to explain the weird headline phrasing.

… 1?

If it’s a rental property, you would own it but maybe not consider it “your house” colloquially

He probably has multiple houses

Fussy parents though they may be, 7% of emergency visits is wildly high. Like… How is it possibly that high?

Who cares what China does?

Is this a big deal in terms of allowing people to more easily quit their jobs and take new ones?

Now do healthcare.

Which is completely irrelevant for why people were feeling bad about the economy for the last many months.

Not sure how to break this to you, but Biden was not elected in March 2020. He wasn’t even president in 2020. The last 3 years isn’t the last 4 years, which isn’t the last 5 years.

My point is if Powell wants to compare dates in good faith, he would make them consistent and reflect on that. “Groceries are up X% in the last 2 years but gas is down Y% during that same time. Maybe people find groceries more compelling than gas.” These are the types of things that legitimate economists and journalists do. Powell is not. He instead cherry picks smatterings of years to make the big numbers and incredulously claim that “smug liberals can’t look at the data.” But they are, and that’s why they’re baffled. He is just looking to dunk on “liberal elites”.

Really shitty discourse to accuse someone of not reading the article when I’m literally quoting it, but do you.

Gas prices are down 30% since June 2022. Dead even since March 2014. Why did he pick March 2020? Because it was the absolute lowest prices of the entire decade due to a global pandemic. Every date he picks to compare is arbitrary. It’s not a comparison of “people felt good in 202X, and now they don’t feel good. Let’s compare the data.” It’s cherry picking.

A true marker of the economy.

Other staples of life have also grown more expensive. Gas prices have gone up by about 50 percent in the past four years. Fuel-oil prices jumped by more than half from March 2020 to March 2024

Wow what totally innocuous and unbiased dates

Lol, ok. Talk about someone who didn’t read what they’re talking about.

The entire article is an attack on “liberal economists”, much like every Michael Powell article.

I’ve listened to literally hours of takedowns on how shitty of a “journalist” Michael Powell is. Not everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Should have known it was Michael Powell from the headline. Guy is a hack republican shill that pretends to be centrist.