1. Chart of the Day I (above). The Brewers Association reported yesterday that an important beer milestone was reached this month when the number of active breweries in the US surpassed 4,000 for the first time since 1873, more than 140 years ago. Welcome to the Golden Age of Beer!
2. Chart of the Day II (above). The FBI released 2014 crime data yesterday and its report revealed that the rape rape last year of 21.6 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants (according to the legacy definition of rape) was at the lowest rate since 1971. Compared to the peak rate of 42.8 rapes per 100,000 population in 1992, last year’s rate was nearly 50% below that peak and the lowest in 43 years. How is it possible to have an “epidemic level” of rape on America’s college campuses when the FBI crime data show that the rate of rape in America is the lowest since 1971, and 50% below the 1992 peak?
3. Chart of the Day III (above). Thanks to the engineering miracles of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, the EIA reported last week that the US has produced domestically more than 89% of the energy consumed this year (through June) for the first time since 1984.
4. Chart of the Day IV (above). The EIA also reported last week that the US relied on foreign sources for only 25.3% of our petroleum supply this year through August, the lowest level of net petroleum imports since 1971. For that increasing level of energy independence, we can also thank the revolutionary drilling and extraction technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that have accessed oceans of shale oil and shale gas in America in recent years.
5. Interactive Map of the Day. From Ireland to Germany to Italy to Mexico: How America’s Source of Immigrants Has Changed in the States, 1850 – 2013, from the Pew Research Center.
6. Gender Fatality Gap: Of the 270 BASE (building, antenna, span, or Earth) jumping fatalities (mostly with a parachute or wingsuit) since 1980, only 20 (7.4%) were female and 250 (92.6%), see data here. More empirical evidence that men engage much more frequently than women in risky behavior.
7. Markets in Everything. South Dakota Sioux Indian tribe to open the nation’s first marijuana resort near Sioux Falls.
8. Chart of the Day V (above), to accompany Thomas Sowell’s article today “The ‘Affordable Housing’ Fraud,” shows that in every year since 2007, the combined number of building permits issued for single-family homes in the Dallas and Houston MSAs has outnumbered all of the permits issued for single-family homes in the entire state of California. Here’s Sowell:
When a growing population creates a growing demand for housing, and the government blocks housing from being built, the price of existing housing goes up. This is not a breakthrough on the frontiers of knowledge.
Housing prices in San Francisco, and in many other communities for miles around, were once no higher than in the rest of the United States. But, beginning in the 1970s, housing prices in these communities skyrocketed to three or four times the national average.
Why? Because local government laws and policies severely restricted, or banned outright, the building of anything on vast areas of land. This is called preserving “open space,” and “open space” has become almost a cult obsession among self-righteous environmental activists, many of whom are sufficiently affluent that they don’t have to worry about housing prices.
9. Video of the Day I (above). More Donald Trump hypocrisy, this time regarding Christmas (from Reason.tv), see related CD post here on The Donald’s hypocrisy on trade.
10. Video of the Day (below). The video below is from the Wisconsin-based Maclver Institute‘s series “Raising Up Wisconsin: How Minimum Wage Jobs Turned Into Family Supporting Careers.” In Part 2 (see Part 1 here on CD), you’ll meet Darin — he started as a minimum-wage dishwasher at a Rocky Rococo restaurant in Racine, Wisconsin thirty years ago. Darin now owns two Rocky Rococo restaurants, including the very store where he started as a dishwasher, and he’s trying to help his employees follow in his footsteps down the same path he traveled to financial success.
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