DMT (2020) draw attention to my treatment of the weighted WTP estimates. The regression model for the second scenario has a negative sign for the constant and a positive sign for the slope. When I “mechanically” calculate WTP for the second scenario it is a positive number which adds weight to the sum of the […]
Georgia Runoffs: How You Can Help Flip the Senate The battle for the Senate is far from over. Both of Georgia’s Senate races are going into runoffs, as no candidate in either race received more than 50 percent of the vote. Reverend Raphael Warnock is facing off against Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler. And Jon Ossoff […]
Leave it to Trump and his Republican allies to spend more energy fighting non-existent voter fraud…
Debunking Trump’s Post-Election Lies Even though Joe Biden won the highest percentage of the popular vote for any challenger since FDR in 1932, the Trump campaign is fighting in courtrooms across the country in a desperate attempt to overturn the results. So far, they’ve been utterly unsuccessful. Why? They have no evidence to back up their […]
The Biden Administration: Who Will Hold the Power? Joe Biden is in the process of appointing several hundred people who are critical to what the administration gets done over the next four years. But not all these people will wield the same amount of power – as I discovered during my own time as a […]
“It’s time we address the structural inequalities in our economy that the pandemic has laid bare,”…
Trump’s Final Days: Who Stood Up to Him? We always knew Trump would contest the election results. He’s spreading wilder and wilder conspiracy theories about non-existent voter fraud. Of course, these claims haven’t held up in court because there’s zero evidence. But the integrity of thousands of people responsible for maintaining American democracy is being […]
“Life is going to return to normal,” Joe Biden promised Thursday in a Thanksgiving address to the…
How Mitch McConnell’s Do Nothing Republicans are Killing You The Senate adjourned and left town without even trying to pass a COVID disaster relief bill. By the time they return on November 30, based on current trends, an additional estimated 16,000 Americans will have died from COVID-19. We pay these elected officials to keep us […]
Financial regulators subject banks to stress tests to see if they have enough capital to withstand…