Is, of course, a cartoon by The Oatmeal.
Lots of sites are dark today, but none are quite so entertaining.
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Is, of course, a cartoon by The Oatmeal. Lots of sites are dark today, but none are quite so entertaining. I’m a fan of Planet Money, so I hate to first bring up Adam Davidson by disagreeing with him. But his article in Sunday’s New York Times, “What has Wall Street done for you lately,” begs to be refuted. The article (mostly) defends Wall Street by pointing out that we need finance, which is like […] So Mark Crovelli at Mises.org, whoever he is, has a post that I am still having trouble believing. Essentially, he argues that economists don’t need the scientific method–that pesky process of checking your conclusions against the real world—as long as they’re smart enough to understand how things really work. Now: Mises.org is an organ of […] The Wall Street Journal had a good post a week or two ago analyzing Ron Paul’s investment strategy, which is, um, a little out there. Basically, the guy has a huge amount of stock in gold and silver mining companies, which is a big bet that the price of gold and silver will go up. […] So apparently one of my least favorite humans, Donald Trump, is taking credit for launching the career of another of my least favorite humans, Lady Gaga, in his new book. Well, here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write: it’s worth looking at Trump’s thought process. From the article: Trump explained that he owns the […] The truly scary thing is, some of this was new to me. It’s freaking impossible to keep track of just how screwed we are. Even if you make it a hobby. Like I do. As of this writing, gold is up above $1800 an ounce; it’s been driven so high at least partly by the idea that gold is a safe haven in these chaotic times. But how, exactly? I understand why gold was so popular during its last big run-up in the 1970s—then, the problem was inflation. Your […] Having trouble uploading sample pages, so let’s try and see if it works here:
I think that did it! That’s one of my two pages on Malthus. Woops–it’s going into the right columns. Well, anyway, let’s see if I can get this to work on the main Sample page. If I can, there […] With all the commentary on the debt limit negotiations, nobody seems to be mentioning that it’s just a continuation of normal Republican tactics: when they’re in the minority, they do everything they can to prevent government from functioning unless they get their way. What we’re seeing now is just a continuation of what we saw […] As I’ve mentioned before, I love the Cracked website. Today one of their columnists tackles the very unfunny subject of just how completely the poor are fucked in modern America, and does it with Cracked’s patented mix of good information and irreverent humor. An example of the good information: I knew that payday-loan places offered […] |
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