Five articles today, all from the NYT, about news from America that gives one a perspective of that (always, but especially right now) fascinating nation.
- “The Trump administration said on Monday that a new French tax that hit American technology companies discriminated against the United States, a declaration that could lead to retaliatory tariffs as high as 100 percent on French wines.”
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Click here for the story and you might also want to read this. I have not read the book myself, but it came up in a conversation just yesterday. I will read it soon enough. Also, I can never understand how Kindle books are more expensive compared to printed ones. Anybody has any ideas?
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.. - “I looked at states that voted for Donald Trump versus states that voted for Clinton in 2016, and calculated average life expectancy weighted by their 2016 population. In 1990, today’s red and blue states had almost the same life expectancy. Since then, however, life expectancy in Clinton states has risen more or less in line with other advanced countries, compared with almost no gain in Trump country. At this point, blue-state residents can expect to live more than four years longer than their red-state counterparts.”
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Cause and effect, correlation and causation, statistics and economics, with a healthy glug of politics. Whats not to like (and dislike)?
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.. - “Should the demagogue succeed in winning the presidency, impeachment in theory provides the fail-safe protection. And yet the demagogue’s political tool kit, it turns out, may be his most effective defense. It is a constitutional paradox: The very behaviors that necessitate impeachment supply the means for the demagogue to escape it.”
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I have subscribed to the NYT long enough to call this piece typical, and you should ask yourself if you think that to be a good thing or a bad thing.
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.. - “These tensions culminated in King Philip’s War of 1675-76, in which the English killed thousands of Native people — including Ousamequin’s son, Pumetacom — and enslaved thousands more. Plymouth and Massachusetts celebrated their bloody victory with a day of thanksgiving.”
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Thanksgiving explained.
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.. - “This year, we are rounding up the worst tech products we often see presented as holiday gifts and are recommending superior alternatives, many of which may go on sale on Black Friday. Consider this a guide to steering away from presents that end up in landfills and toward buying what may bring your loved ones joy.”
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A “worst of” shopping list. What does this say about shopping?
EconForEverybody 
I agree with your point about pricing of Kindle books vs paperbacks. e-books, I had assumed would make reading more accessible to the masses by bringing down the prices (due to costs saved in publishing & distribution or P&D) however, their I’ve commonly found from online searching is that e-books are atleast 70-80% of the price that a paperback comes at. Till date, I haven’t been able to agree with it & hence prefer buying paperbacks. (I wish S. Jobs have lived long enough to disrupt online publishing with the iPads, as well as he did for the music industry with the iPods)
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Thanks for writing in, Shubham! I’d disagree a bit on this – Kindle Unlimited is just great, and the prices of books on Kindle are in general lower. In this case they’re not lower – that’s confusing to me 🙂
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