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Month: July 2018

How is america utilizing it’s land? Only a few are used for urban dwelling with majority of the population, it’s little surprise that these areas contribute an outsize amount to the economy.

Posted on by Aaron Buenaventura

There are many statistical measures that show how productive the U.S. is. Its economy is the largest in the world and grew at a rate of 4.1 percent last quarter, its fastest pace since 2014. The unemployment rate is near the lowest mark in a half century.

What can be harder to decipher is how Americans use their land to create wealth. The 48 contiguous states alone are a 1.9 billion-acre jigsaw puzzle of cities, farms, forests and pastures that Americans use to feed themselves, power their economy and extract value for business and pleasure.

Koch-Backed CATO Institute: ‘Time for the U.S. to Have Open Borders

Posted on by Aaron Buenaventura

In an op-ed for USA Today, the Cato Institute’s Director of Economic Studies, Jeffrey Miron, says the U.S. “has nothing to fear, and much to gain, from open borders,” saying that Americans should “forget” about putting a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration.

The real key to intelligence is being able to maintain opposing views on an issue and still function.

Posted on by Aaron Buenaventura

F. Scott Fitzgerald On First-Rate Intelligence – Personal Growth – Medium “Thetest of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability…

WHEN pollsters ask Americans which party they plan to vote for in the elections for the House of Representatives this November, those preferring the Democrats lead those preferring the Republicans by around seven percentage points. But this does not mean the Democrats are a shoo-in to win the House. The Economist’s statistical model of the race for control of the House of Representatives—which uses this sort of “generic ballot” polling, along with other data—currently says that, although the likelihood of a Democratic majority in the popular vote is a remarkable 99.9%.

Impact Bonds designed to pay for specific outcomes used to ensure Indian girls go through school.

Posted on by Aaron Buenaventura

Development-impact bonds designed to pay for specific outcomes used to ensure Indian girls go through school.

If a girl in a poor country goes to school, she will probably have a more comfortable life than if she stays at home. She will be less likely to marry while still a child, and therefore less likely to die in childbirth. So, not surprisingly, there is an Indian charity that tries to get girls into school and ensure they learn something, and there are Western philanthropists willing to pay for its work.

Andrew Byford Has A New Plan To Radically Improve The MTA

Posted on by Aaron Buenaventura

He’s done it in London and Toronto, can he change one of the largest most outdated systems on the planet?

To rebuild the city’s beleaguered public-transit system, after years of chaotic decline and stark dysfunction. He had vowed to visit every one of New York’s subway stations—there are four hundred and seventy-two—and to ride every bus route, in an effort that was part good-will tour, part reconnaissance mission.