Stidmatt's Views

A political economist's exploration into current events and philosophy.

Sunday, December 1, 2024

It started with Mexico

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Mexico was an official US ally from 1948 to 2004 as a member of the Rio Pact. We then became closer with the signing of NAFTA in 1994 which ...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Education, Corruption, Democracy, Wealth

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The hypothesis is straight forward, the relationship between education, corruption, democracy, and wealth. Income Almost no countries have b...

Potential Schengen members

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  Potential Schengen members based on corruption, press freedom, and democracy: ·       Australia ·       Botswana ·...
Friday, November 22, 2024

Online maps reviewed

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The most famous maps of course are Google Maps and Google Earth. Google Earth has so many amazing features, the historical imagery, streetvi...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Brightline, a model for the future

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Timeline: 1976: Conrail founded from the remnants of Penn Central and Erie Lackawanna Railway 1994: Privatization of British Rail began unde...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

DOGE

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So Trump and Elon Musk are going all-in on DOGE, or "Department of Government Efficiency" to make a smaller government. What does...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Shifty and Untrustworthy

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    People read establishment politicians as shifty and untrustworthy. Here are a few reasons why: Biden promised to support Ukraine while h...
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