1. Kim Peek has passed away; here is a tribute.
2. David Brooks on Kling and Schulz.
4. A new model of the block universe.
5. A critique of the critique of The Phantom Menace.
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1. Kim Peek has passed away; here is a tribute.
2. David Brooks on Kling and Schulz.
4. A new model of the block universe.
5. A critique of the critique of The Phantom Menace.
[...]Yesterday CBO released a cost estimate for S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act .... This legislation would make a number of changes in energy and environmental policies largely aimed at reducing emissions of gases that contribute to global warming. The bill would limit or cap [...]
I came across this video interview of economist Sandy Ikeda by the Mackinac Center. Sandy currently blogs at thinkmarkets and has contributed guest posts to Market Urbanism. I thought Sandy did a great job discussing many of the topics we cover in this site. Sandy is particularly [...]
Over the course of seeing concerts the past 3+ decades, I have had the good fortune to attend shows that were recorded and later distributed on CD/DVD a handful of times.
Up until recently, the most memorable was Aimee Mann’s Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
But this [...]
|Peter Boettke|
Richard Cornuelle is one of the most insightful men I have ever had the good fortune to interact with in my career. The author of Reclaiming the American Dream (1965), De-managing America (1975), and Healing America (1983), Cornuelle has contributed greatly to our understanding of the 'independent sector' and the internal organization [...]
As a result of legislative convenience, bureaucratic imperative and historical happenstance, a variety of responsibilities have accreted to the Fed over the years. In addition to conducting monetary policy, the Fed also distributes currency, runs the system through which banks transfer funds, supervises financial holding companies [...]
Funny stuff — or is it tragicomedy? – from blogger John Galt…
“The Elves of the Great Depression of 2009″ (via YouTube):
Source:
The Elves of the Great Depression of 2009
John Galt
Shenandoah, Dec. 4, 2009
http://johngaltfla.com/blog3/2009/12/04/a-musical-tribute-the-elves-of-the-great-depression-of-2009/
For really impressive stock-market returns, go to Haradheere, Somalia:
Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel.
“I am waiting for my share after I contributed a rocket-propelled [...]
In recent days, we have been treated to a bizarre spectacle in the Austrian blogosphere: a metaeconomist who has never contributed anything of substance to economic theory casually denigrating the achievements of a truly great economic theorist, William H. Hutt. Hutt was one of the greatest economists of his generation, [...]
Cause: New energy efficiency requirements for power companies
Effect 1:
Consumers went crazy in October when they learned what their power company, Akron-based FirstEnergy, planned to distribute energy-efficient light bulbs. The company proposed automatically mailing the bulbs to every customer, then tacking a surcharge that [...]
"Over the holidays, I have learned from my parents that there are homeowners associations that ban drying [...]
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations.
Back in 2005, Rainbough Phillips at Distributed Republic had the splendid idea of a Capitalism Appreciation Day. She walked the reader through her day expressing her appreciation for every for-profit entity that made her life more pleasant. It [...]
I was asked to contribute a few words to a feature in The Age about how Australia has fared two years into the Rudd government. My bit dealt with the economy.
One thing is for sure, if there ever were a time when one can’t distinguish the soundness of economic management [...]
What are the consequences of allowing multi-billion-dollar systemically important multinational corporations to report their assets using proprietary mark-to-model tools involving discredited Monte Carlo simulations? I think we all know the answer to that one. But unbelievably, after such shenanigans contributed enormously to the greatest financial meltdown in living memory, the [...]
