The first gene-edited children may have been born this past month in China. Link. Good!
The average person who purchases at least one lottery ticket spends $600 per year on them. Link. Bad!
Suicide is declining basically everywhere except America. The stats and probable reasons for these trends are here. In Asia, a group that has historically had high rates of suicide is young women, and one of the main reasons seems to be "overbearing in-laws"...
"As the libertarian economist Bryan Caplan has wryly observed, in the United States today we really have no classical liberal party but instead have a choice between two national-socialist parties: one a little more nationalist, the other a little more socialist." Link.
People oppose congestion pricing as a means to reduce traffic... until it is implemented and they see how well it works. Link.
A bipartisan climate bill has been put forward in the House of Representatives that "would apply a $15-per-metric-ton carbon fee to the U.S. oil, gas, and coal industries, but rebate all of the revenue as a dividend to households to shield them from increased fossil fuel costs". Link. Surely it won't pass, but I can dream.
Out of major countries hit by the Great Recession, the countries who have recovered the best, in terms of real GDP per capita, are Germany, followed by the U.S. and Japan. Link.
"residents of the four states that share a border with Mexico are least likely to be worried" about the migrant caravan. Link. This sort of thing holds up in general, where people with the least exposure to immigrants are the most anti-immigrant.
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