Day: February 17, 2008

Psychohistory Reaches 450 Posts

/ Adam Nash

Just a quick milestone for this blog.  It’s been a couple of months since I’ve posted any stats.  I don’t have the patience tonight to go into extreme detail, but here are some high level numbers for Psychohistory to date:

Blog Stats

  • Total Views: 272,308
  • Best Day Ever: 4,536 — Monday, March 26, 2007
  • Posts: 450
  • Comments: 1,312
  • Categories: 35

Here is a nice graph that shows page views, month by month, since I launched this new blog in August 2006:

The big spike in March 2007 was due to a flurry of interest in my Battlestar Galactica posts, which remain to this day the most popular posts on this blog.

2008 Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate Calculator

/ Adam Nash

Found this post on Lifehacker today. It’s actually just a pointer to this calculator on Consumerism Commentator, which lets you enter your 1040 numbers from 2007 (if you’ve done them yet) and figure out how much you are (or aren’t getting).

Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate Calculator

Personally, I’m exceptionally disappointed with the “bi-partisan” stimulus plan that was negotiated by the White House & Congress.  There is a time and a place for fiscal stimulus, and a time and a place for social programs.  But mixing the two rarely leads to good policy.

The Wall Street Journal had an article today that estimated that roughly 50-70% of the rebate money would end up in consumption.  Previous blog posts have argued that the 2001 stimulus rebate, which was similar, was mostly ineffective.

Anyway, what’s done is done.