Collecting My Thoughts

$8.2 Billion – The estimated amount of money spent at family clothing stores in August 2014 . Sales at bookstores in August 2014 were es...

Notice that the bottom quintile is lifted briefly about 10 years, and after that the top quintile takes off. Poverty is lucrative business f...

Today I was looking at the U.S. Census.  Now, to answer a question, you can’t always get a table of Honey Crisp apples.  Sometimes it’s appl...

It's going to be tricky counting married same sex couples; just because they live together, they might not consider themselves "par...

March will be a 2-fer for me March is Women's History Month and Irish Heritage Month in the United States. According to the U.S. Census ...

Our household income fell by one-half under Bush! Of course. We retired during the Bush years. Eeek! And our insurance costs have gone up!...

Listening to lies about the economy CNN had extensive coverage of Biden banging the drum for a depression, and the sooner the better. Yes, ...

Irish immigration When we were in Ireland in September we noticed 1) the booming economy, and 2) the booming immigration. We visited a Cath...

2868 How to lie with statistics, charts and quintiles David R. Henderson at TCS Daily has an interesting thought. Read the Census Repor...