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Four charts to overcome your pessimism about how recent generations are doing economically
Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉
@jmhorp
Dad, Economist, and Arkansan.
Associate Professor @UCAbusiness, Director @ACRE_UCA, Adjunct Scholar @CatoInstitute. Tweets are mine
- Precheck line moves faster because you don't have to remove as much stuff. Also, old school metal detector is faster and less invasive.Guys, if we all have TSA precheck, then none of us have TSA precheck
- China was not very successful under communism. In 1981, extreme poverty was still 97%. At the time of Mao's death, China's average income was once of the lowest in the world. Following the adoption of some market reforms, things began to improve rapidly
- Let me suggest that there are childcare options that don't cost $60K per year.
