All fifty states grouped by the 2024 presidential result and compared on output, income, prices, growth, jobs, migration, taxes, poverty, and federal balance. Filter the map and inspect every state behind each average.
Finding
Harris-won states had higher 2024 GDP per resident.
Data
2024 BEA GDP and regional prices, 2024 Census and BLS measures, 2022 tax burden, and FFY 2023 federal balance
Every state matched to a national economy of similar size, with the arithmetic shown. The popular Mississippi versus United Kingdom comparison flips when the price adjustment changes.
Finding
Mississippi's 2024 nominal GDP per resident was 0.8% above the United Kingdom's; adjusted for prices, the United Kingdom is 12.3% ahead.
Data
2024 BEA state GDP and regional prices, 2024 World Bank national accounts, and 2023 household consumption measures
Why US homelessness tracks rent and vacancy rather than poverty, drugs, or mental illness, and which housing and wage rules push rent up. A fifty-state table, four zoning natural experiments, and a cost ledger.
Finding
Homelessness per capita tracks fair-market rent, not poverty: Mississippi has a tenth the homelessness rate of Massachusetts.
Six economic systems compared on ownership, price formation, trade, credit, labor, and state power, with historical cases and characteristic failure modes. Includes an interactive coordinate map and a twelve-test matrix.
Core distinction
Private title alone does not identify capitalism when political allocation controls entry, credit, wages, or output.
Eight political traditions compared across ten tests, from economic intervention and redistribution to civil liberty, trade, immigration, and authority. Includes a two-tradition selector and a translation table for labels like liberal and neoliberal.
Core distinction
A single left-right axis loses distinctions that become visible when economic control, civil liberty, trade, immigration, and political authority are compared separately.
Primary texts behind the debates
Mercantilism vs Capitalism vs Socialism: Economic Systems
