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...empirically documented, which suggests that every dollar of increased household wealth will, over a period of time, convert to 3 to 5 cents of spending. Calculators, please: 0.03 times $1.2 trillion equals $3.6 billion in spending. In an economy that is two-thirds consumer spending, that's another growth driver. One other thing about the wealth effect is that it works splendidly in reverse too. There's the prospect that Broun and his colleagues could be serving up a double whammy to households across the country: declining stock market wealth in addition to already plummeting housing wealth...
...throughout the course of adolescence. So you've got this time gap between when things impel kids toward taking risks early in adolescence, and when things that allow people to think before they act come online. It's like turning on the engine of a car without a skilled driver at the wheel...
...ecotourism trade. On the winding road we see the result of centuries of tavy, traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. The verdant forests that once covered much of Madagascar have been burnt or torn down, replaced by muddy rice paddies and secondary shrubs. This loss of habitat is the primary driver of extinction on Madagascar. The trees support a web of life, from the hefty indri to dazzlingly tiny frogs that fit on your pinky, but deforestation in Madagascar is so severe that the island's soil, unmoored by the loss of the trees, simply slides into the sea. The crimson...
...first days were wonderful. After trying several lines, I found that my absolute favorite was the 14. Driven entirely by some sort of computer-sensory device, the 14 didn’t need an annoying front car with a driver obfuscating my view of the underground...
...averse lifestyle the Granite State so loudly pretends to endorse. Perhaps this individual only likes seeing road-trip bonheur melt into something worse. There’s really no way of knowing. The point is that the power dynamic is such in the modern day that our hypothetical driver, the classical Ubermensch, has lost all his purchase in these misguided States. Let us not forget that ours is the land that once acquitted Aaron Burr, a former vice president and notable murderer, of his active conspiracy against the United States and his plan to become the ‘Emperor...