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Heyjude's avatar

Oh my gosh Brad, what a wealth of information in easily digestible tidbits! Thank you!

The GDP information is especially interesting. I had no idea the disparity was so large. Why do we care what Europe or Canada thinks?

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Frances Burger's avatar

"the trauma of the 2024 presidential election defeat " ~ Politico

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Marc DB's avatar

My wife was talking last night to a friend of hers who still lives in the Los Angeles area. She said that now you need to wait 2 or even 3 months to get a doctor’s or dentist’s appointment now there as so many of them have left California. Population moves are also about who moves.

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Kayleen Hunsaker Smith's avatar

I was actually flabbergasted by much of this information.

What a plethora of GREAT info!!!

You are awesome for putting this together!!!

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Secret Squirrel's avatar

Amazing post. Overwhelming.

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Wow. I’m going to print these so I can study them. Ty

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Frances Burger's avatar

Luddite. Hahaha

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Alan Devincentis's avatar

Well, regarding your comment, if it was an attempt at sarc, lol. If you’re trying to ba an asshole, you win. I don’t see as well as I used to, so magnifying tiny charts is a requirement. Or I can print them individually, and actually see them. Pray you get old. The alternative sucks.

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Frances Burger's avatar

Your first take was the spirit in which it was intended. (If I remember correctly, PECO provides PDF’s of his Substack articles for people like us.)

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Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

So interesting!

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Inverted Pyramid's avatar

Great stats, I didn’t know that some of these existed... thanks!

The debt of the United States is just as critical to the other debtors and certainly the surplus countries. Allowing any country to exceed 20% is dangerous.l, much less, > than 30%.

If the United States defaults, it will look like dominos and I don’t mean pizza. If you are a country without dependence on the United States... you are wishing for an American meltdown.

Just think to yourself (I totally understand the redundancy) as to... “who are those country/countries?

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Richard Scratcher's avatar

Awesome effort

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Marc DB's avatar

Before there is too much cheer about the forecast apportionments in the 2030 census, consider than many blue state refugees will not turn into Republicans just because their moving van has driven into a red state. The economic disparity between the large cities & their surroundings extends to red states too. Also how they vote.

https://b3547229.smushcdn.com/3547229/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/United_States_presidential_election_results_map_by_county.webp?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1

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Brad's avatar

I agree. I lived in Los Angeles for five years 2017-2022.

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