John W Rodat

The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History by Joseph E. Stiglitz – Project Syndicate

January 17, 2023 Earnings

The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History by Joseph E. Stiglitz – Project Syndicate: The End of Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of History Nov 4, 2019. For 40 years, elites in rich and poor countries alike promised that neoliberal policies would lead to faster economic growth, and that the benefits would trickle down […]

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County Level Population Changes in New York State

September 2, 2021 Demographics

The bigger a county’s population in New York in 2010, the faster the growth to 2020 – not only was the number of the increase bigger, the rate of growth was bigger.  Translation, New York City and the surrounds got bigger. Some upstate urban areas got bigger. Most of the rural rural areas lost population. […]

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SNAP Data for New York

September 2, 2021 Food

This visualization shows trends and related data for New York’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). It’s the old Food Stamps program. I did this for Feeding NYS. Their version is here. Click through it. Among other things, you’ll see some interesting long term trends and some extraordinary spikes during COVID-19. It’s granular to the county/New […]

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Medicaid Enrollment “Blips”

February 16, 2021 Economics

Updated Medicaid enrollment tracker (through last May) today and found some interesting and perhaps related “blips.” For about four years, there had been a slow decline in enrollment for all age groups under 65. In March of last year as COVID-19 slammed New York, that reversed, especially among those 21-44. Not surprising and consistent with […]

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What if Last Week’s Stock Market Tumble Wasn’t Due or Not Entirely to Coronavirus?

March 2, 2020 Disease

My friend Tom Fiddamon (@tomfid), a System Dynamicist of the first order, just published Stock markets and coronavirus – an endogenous perspective – MetaSD. His summary point is: Coronavirus may indeed be the proximate cause of this week’s decline, in the same sense as the straw that broke the camel’s back. However, the magnitude of he […]

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Yeah, we know about lying with statistics

October 26, 2018 Analysis

“It is easy to lie with statistics, but it is easier to lie without them.” Frederick Mosteller (1916-2006)

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Supremes Opera

October 15, 2018 Law

Despite their philosophical differences, Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Ginsburg, both opera buffs, were reportedly great personal friends. So we shouldn’t be surprised, that Derrick Wang, who teaches both music and law, has written an opera about them, Scalia/Ginsburg. Can you imagine a libretto (the script) with a couple hundred legal and operatic footnotes? Can […]

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Congratulations to the Town of Brookhaven, NY

June 19, 2018 Administration

Congratulations to the Town of Brookhaven, NY, to Supervisor Ed Romaine, and to the elected and staff leadership of local villages and participating school districts for winning New York’s first Municipal Consolidation and Efficiency Competition (MCEC). Here’s the Governor’s announcement of the winner In New York’s municipal sector, this was an unusual competition in that […]

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Boom and Bust in the Supply of U.S. Air Force Pilots

May 7, 2018 Aviation

This past fall in San Antonio, I was part of a small group of former Air Force pilots briefed on the current pilot shortage.. Now the issue is written up in Foreign Policy:  USAF pilot shortage: What’s Driving the U.S. Air Force Pilot Shortage? Folks in the System Dynamics (SD) community are quite familiar with this […]

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Courage, Semantics, Personal Knowledge, and “He Knew What He Signed Up For”

October 20, 2017 Military

This comment is well outside the scope of what I usually write about here. But the recent controversy about President Trump’s call to the family of a serviceman killed in Niger began while I was with a group of friends with whom I served in the Air Force. I’m limiting my comments here to the […]

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