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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
How to become a millionaire
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In 1979 and 1992, the Roper Organization did surveys that contained a number of questions about millionaires. For one, they handed people a...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The Debt Crisis
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There's been a controversy about the ratio of federal debt to GDP--is there some level beyond which more debt hurts economic growth? ...
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Britain vs. America, round 3
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In 2010, I had a post about Americans' increased knowledge of a number of historical figures between 1952 and 1975. Then about a month...
Friday, March 8, 2013
Room at the top
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The survey I mentioned in my last post also asked people about their chances of becoming rich: 9% said "very likely," 19% said ...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
You may be rich, you may be poor
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People usually have a pretty high opinion of their own talents and overestimate their control over events. As a result, you might expect t...
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Saturday, March 2, 2013
Ye have the poor with you always
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From time to time, the Gallup poll has asked people "Do you think poverty will ever be done away with in this country?"* The resu...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Was our children learning?
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One of my first posts on this blog (and the most viewed, according to Google) was about how knowledge of important historical figures grew...
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