"Short, thin Asian dude with vaguely L.A. fashion and short, thin very cute blonde girl" is a type of couple I keep seeing more of, and yet I feel that their story is not being told in popular media...
The guy wears skinny dark jeans and tends to hold his hands halfway in his pockets and slightly hunch his shoulders like a private detective on a case, while the girl looks a bit like a Lord of the Rings elf and smiles a lot...

Don't tell me you haven't seen this couple!!
The first couple of this type I can remember meeting was sitting next to me at a Medieval Times event in NYC in 2015. They were very into swordfighting, and told me many details about how swordfighting would work in the real world.
Just idly googling to find the perfect archetypical representation of this couple, because I'm procrastinating

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31 May
Inflation-adjusted median family income in the United States.
Basically:

1955-1972: Growth

1973-1983: Stagnation/decline

1984-1989: Growth

1990-1993: Decline

1994-2000: Growth

2001-2012: Stagnation/decline

2013-2019: Growth
Note that real median PERSONAL income, which doesn't depend on family size or the number of incomes per household etc., tracks real median family income almost exactly.

So yes, the above graph does give an accurate picture of income trends.
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1/Let's talk about inflation, and why people don't like it.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-do-peopl…
2/Most people don't remember the 70s now, but back then, inflation was the number 1 economic problem on people's minds -- by far!
3/And some folks are starting to look back at that period and ask: Why were people so upset about inflation?

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Republicans: We should run government like a business.

Me: GREAT, let's borrow a bunch of money to do capital expenditures, just like businesses do!

Republicans: No.
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Republicans: Yes.
Me: ...And while we're at it, you want us to hire a corrupt CEO who embezzles money, bellows at employees, and gropes women...right?

Republicans: Also yes.
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1/Today's Substack post is sort of a "where we are" review of a lot of the stuff I've written about this year so far.

My big theme in February and March was optimism. Was I too optimistic?

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2/First, let's talk about the pandemic -- obviously still the most important problem.

Our vaccination effort started out world-beating. Our rollout was massive and rapid, conquering supply chain issues. And our vaccines work really, really well.

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