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So Much Good News

Robin Hanson
Jan 22, 2010
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In the US, Med Reform seems dead and the Supreme Court upholds free speech big-time.  World wide, the modal (log) income, i.e., the most common income level world-wide, has increased by a factor of ten in just 40 years!

HT Rob Wiblin.

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May 15

Amazon.com What Liberal Media? The Truth about Bias and the News (9780465001774) Eric Alterman Bookshttp://www.amazon.com/What-...

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May 15

I agree regarding reform. In the absence of any changes, healthcare will eat up larger and larger portions of GDP. The averted change may not have done any good, but the outlook is still bad. A pretty low standard for "good news".

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