17 December 2025

Quick Hits

* Property crime rates in 2024 were the lowest that they've been since 1976.


Pretty sure that the labeling of this lines is wrong.

* Immensely increased H1-B visa fees will devastate the supply of physicians in the U.S., especially in rural areas, that are already being pummeled by immense cuts to Medicaid funding and ACA health insurance subsidies used mostly by self-employed people like farmers.

* Large office properties in metropolitan Denver are selling at immense discounts. Some of them are being converted to apartments or condos.

* In a broken clock's right twice a day moment, Trump's push for American automakers to start make microcars in the Kei car and Smart car sizes wouldn't be a bad thing, although his opposition to electric vehicles is horrible policy.

3 comments:

Guy said...

Morning Andrew, why do you think the lines are labeled wrong?

andrew said...

Because the chart below has the right numbers. Larceny is much more common that burglary or motor vehicle theft.

Anonymous said...

It occurred to me recently that the evaporation of cash transactions by necessity will reduce crimes like robbery. And that cybercrime is most likely making up the difference then some. It also seems like the ratio of cash that participated in black and gray markets will rise a lot. I suspect some unexpected consequences from this.