Quote, Unquote

As we no longer have an economic policy that is managed democratically, it should not be surprising that it produces unfair outcomes. Nor should it be surprising that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, Covid, the war in Ukraine and so-called Bidenflation, this unfairness would give rise to what Wolfgang Streeck calls “tendencies toward deglobalization” — such as those that emerged with a vengeance on November 5, 2024.
~ Christopher Caldwell

via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024

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Campus Trivia

What was America’s population growth over the five decades leading to 2020?

The decade-by-decade population growth of the United States between 1970 and 2020 is as follows:

  1. 1970 – 203,392,031
  2. 1980 – 226,545,805 (11.4%)
  3. 1990 – 248,709,873 (9.8%)
  4. 2020 – 281,421,906 (13.2%)
  5. 2010 – 308,745,538 (9.7%)
  6. 2020 – 331,449,281 (7.4%)

via Wikipedia

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