Montana grizzly bears forage in the dusk We came across a survey covering public support for the Endangered Species Act, including among different demographics, over roughly the last twenty years. Jeremy Bruskotter and Ramiro Berardo, who teach at Ohio State, and John Bruskotter, at University of Michigan, compiled polls taken over the last twenty years and found support of the Act to be remarkably stable. As background, visible declines in game species and those taken for millinery use, like the Carolina parakeet whose flocks once darkened the skies, led John Lacey, a Republican representative from Iowa, to introduce the Lacey Act of 1900, the first legislation regulating commercial animal markets. Later came the Migratory Bird Treaty of 1929, between the US and […]
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Kaiser Foundation on “Limited Empirical Validation”
In their most recent Misinformation Tracking Poll, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that Republican respondents are more likely to believe...
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The 2024 Benchmark in a 32-year Frame
As you can see on the graph below, the 2024 benchmark, -0.5%, is the fifth largest over the last 32 years, among 2009’s -0.7%, 1994’s +0.7%,...
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S&P buybacks grabbing over half of earnings
S&P’s Howard Silverblatt is out with a preliminary reading on 2024Q1’s stock buybacks. In a phrase, they were big, if not quite the biggest. Buybacks...