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sourcreamus t1_jbod1la wrote
Reply to [OC] Ratio of Median Sale Price of Single-Family Homes to Per Capita Income, by Metro Area by thatdude333
What is wrong with vero beach Florida that is has such reasonable housing ?
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Reply to comment by CaptainKasch in What did the public actually want in the Iranian revolution of 1979? by ReecoElryk
It is more complicated than what he said. The shahs father was the ruler but when he died there was a democratic government elected. The democratic government nationalized British oil which was wildly popular. Britain responded with an embargo. This tanked the economy. Mossadegh was the prime minister and called an election. Exit polls indicated his party was losing and he canceled the election. He then started to rule without parliament. Britain and the US then paid for a coup that installed the Shah as ruler. The Shah planned to restore democracy but predictably never got around to it.
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Reply to comment by morismano in What did the public actually want in the Iranian revolution of 1979? by ReecoElryk
Iran did well in the early 70s, but oil markets adjusted, while the government kept spending. The economy started doing poorly and the newly empowered middle class wanted political power.
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Reply to comment by edvardsenrasmus in US States, Police Training v Shootings/Violent Crime (per million) [OC] by tommytornado
It would be reasonable to assume that in places with lots of violent criminals there would be more interaction between violent criminals and police. That would lead to more police shootings. So the violent crime rate is a proxy for justified shootings.
You could go through the databases of cop shootings and categorize them into justified and unjustified. Then compare the unjustified rate with cop training. The problem with that is the low numbers would mean very noisy data.
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Reply to comment by plaidtattoos in Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday! by AutoModerator
The fall of heaven by Andrew Cooper
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Reply to ELI5: Why can’t governments funds things if they’re always in debt anyway? by goaterra
There are limits to how much a country can borrow. No one knows exactly how much that is because it varies by country and circumstances. When a country can’t borrow any more you get what happened to Greece a decade ago where they had to balance the budget suddenly and the economy melted down.
Your previous prime minister tried to push through tax cuts that the market thought would cause the deficit to be too high and they had to back off from those plans and get a new prime minister.