50% of the entirety of consumer spending in the United States is spending by the top 10% of income earners (edit: income over $250,000).

RetailWire

The Wealthiest 10% of US Households Now Represent Nearly 50% of Consumer Spending

The wealthiest 10% of U.S. households now represent nearly half of all consumer spending. What are the potential pitfalls ahead?

30 years ago the number was 38% About 70% of the United States GDP is consumer spending.

Mainstream news has to do a better job interviewing people, especially the people dismantling the U.S. government.. You can't just ask questions and let them spit propaganda. They are all good speakers that's what the republicans and the right do well. What's the point of even having them on then? Ask follow ups and push them on the things they assert with no proof. Here the VP of the Heritage Foundation Roger Severino got a free propaganda session. Good for him I guess.

Are you ready to pay more CANADA PENSION PLAN because we are all going to be DISABLED WITH LONG COVID?!?!

Our preprint reviewing the Loeb 2022 study purporting to show N95s don't work better than medical masks is out. The study is deeply flawed.

SARS-CoV-2 vs measles --- Many commentators have said "SARS-CoV-2 isn't measles". Impression that measles was a terror and this was no big deal. But how deadly was measles? Well, in US, before vax, 3-4mm caught and 400 died each year. 400 COVID-19 currently 665k [posted Sept 15, 2021]

Police wonder why everyone thinks they have a problem. Officer raped a drunk woman, filmed it, tried to show it to a bunch of people, and said he did it to teach her a lesson. "Redmond was previously convicted of drug trafficking in 2018 but received only one year of probation and no jail time. He has been on paid leave from the OPP since he was charged in that case in 2015." OPP can't fire him? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/opp-officer-sexual-assault-jason-redmond-1.6797839

If you exercise some degrees of freedom in conducting your experiment, you can make almost any stupid hypothesis p<0.05. False positive rates can be as high as 60%. These researchers proved, to p<0.05, that listening to kids music made participants 1.5 years younger.

Poorly done study does the rounds. Apparently reeived 600,000 dollars. Money poorly spent. All the usual names in the paper. Paper is a joke