Lots of Screaming, Not Much Listening
Links for Friday, November 15
As the big grow bigger, anxiety haunts the rest.
—Financial Times on the U.S. economy
Tales of unheeded cries — climate-fraught farmers, helpless would-be homebuyers, Gaza, the suffering Democratic Party constituency. Good news at the end. Plus music.
Links
The suffering seek relief. Who will provide it?
• Science is Screaming. No One is Listening. (Margi Prideaux, Substack)
Over the past four years, I’ve questioned whether I could face another day. I’ve stood on the edge, more than once, since climate chaos roared into my world and destroyed everything. Believe me, you don’t want this trauma. I am saying this out loud, not for pity, but to demand your attention.
File under “Tales from boots on the ground.”
• The U.S. Has Failed Its Children – In the Most Unconscionable Ways (Wall Street on Parade)
Yesterday, the National Association of Realtors released their annual Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers. It showed that by the time Americans have saved enough money for a downpayment to buy their first home in America, they will be close to middle age. The study recorded the median age of first-time home buyers as the oldest in the history of the study, at 38 years of age. (In the 1980s, first-time home buyers were in their 20s.) At the same time the age of first-time home buyers was hitting a record high, the percentage of first-time buyers was hitting a record low – just 24 percent of the market in the latest survey. That is the lowest percentage share of first-time home buyers since the National Association of Realtors began conducting the survey in 1981.
File under “The rich are eating us all.”
• Biden’s internal polling (Pod Save America, via Mediaite)
[Jon Favreau:] … Then we find out when the Biden campaign becomes the Harris campaign, that the Biden campaign’s own internal polling at the time when they were telling us he was the strongest candidate, showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes. That’s what their own internal polling said.
This, according to the Twitter, is that close to that map. (The map Biden had may have shown Maine-1 or Nebraska-2 as his.)
Video here. How do you lose Illinois?
File under “And still he pressed on.”