Category Archives: economics

Poverty Rate and Welfare Spending

I was looking at Welfare spending as a percent of GDP from the following site and wondered if this data were somehow correlated with US poverty rate from this site.  The results were startling!  Starting in the early 70’s, Welfare … Continue reading

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The Benefits of Capitalism

It started with a simple question.  How much  money would you take to give up the internet for life?  Wow, think about it.  Most of our lives revolves around the internet – we pay our bills, manage our finances, tweet, … Continue reading

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