Morning Ed: Economics {2018.03.29.Th}
Socialists, socialism, innovation, and destruction.
Socialists, socialism, innovation, and destruction.
Money, money, money.
Family, Food, Gender, Pets, Shopping
First comes Relationships, then comes a Family. Then, uhhh, Athletes spend a lot of Money going to Space? {#203}
This Week: Gender, Relationships, Nicotine, Money, Planet, and Space!
Not paying taxes for 18 years is not necessarily tax evasion
CNMHW Crime, Nature, Money, Health, Work
This Week: Cities, Gender, Health, Money, and Creatures!
More Thiel, shuttering factories, and barber shops
Dear Church,
Find a way to spend more money on your outreach and less on your facilities.
Sincerely,
An Uncomfortable Christian
This week: Religion, Money, Education, Nature, and Comics!
This Week: Asia, Education, Health, Money, Work, and Progress!
Move around money, watch it fly…
Maybe it wasn’t the biggest surprise to come out of the Treasury Department since FDR approved 3.2% beer during Prohibition, but Burt Likko welcomes today’s news about the government’s decision to shift the granting of high honors from one historical figure to another anyway.
This week: Money, Crime, Government, Nature, Health, Brains!
Ice cream. It’s all that.
But Burt Likko can’t enjoy it because his wallet’s fat.
Profession predisposes peoples’ political preferences. Perhaps.
Goldbugs on the loose in Austin!
It’s not news that adjunct professors don’t get paid a lot. But it is at least remarkable when life imitates Breaking Bad.
I want money (that’s what I want).
It’s the last session of class. What runs through the adjunct professor’s mind?
A squib of a post about this morning’s Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. Very brief: aggregate campaign donation limits unconstitutional.
Noam Scheiber makes a radical suggestion. Eric Posner has lots of reasons why it’ll never work. Burt Likko says, “There’s a few things neither of you bright fellows have thought of.”
Burt Likko is no rail engineer. But he is a lawyer, and that means he can offer at least one suggestion to moderate the ongoing boondoggle that is the California High Speed Rail Project.
In my business, I go to considerable efforts to make it as easy as possible for my clients to give me their money. This seems to be an ethic that DirecTV does not share.
Will getting that J.D. really pay for itself?
In Burt’s recent FP post, he takes a hypothetical bankruptcy scenario posed by Randy Harris and teases out the personal and professional ethics of the fictional players. If you haven’t read it yet, you should do so now. Burt’s unerring ability to keep separate the strands of morality, professional ethics, and his knowledge of the…
I know I often disagree with him. But then there’s stuff like this: “What’s stopping Warren Buffett from paying more taxes?” is a red herring. The fundamental question is: “Why is government’s share of the voluntary donations market so damn small?” All genuinely charitable donations suffer from the Prisoners’ Dilemma… That’s probably a big part…
…That on April 20, of all days, I should come across a post discussing the wording of an effort to enact a repeal of Citizens United by way of amending the United States Constitution. It seems perfectly obvious to me that despite the noble intentions of campaign finance reform and the obvious corrupting influence of…
My former colleague Will Wilkinson offers some insightful comments on our intuitions regarding taxes, subsidies, and fiscal policy. To wit: I think the assumption on the right is that first we work to make money on the market, and then later the government swoops in and takes a bite from the fruit of our labour.…
Tony Comstock, writing about his “Sputnik Moment“: Okay, I pretty much wonder “What the fish have I done with my life?” every time I have a set major back (which is pretty much a weekly event,) but one moment stands out above all the rest. It was the Spring after 9/11. The New York…
Fellow Ordinaries Elias Isquith and Mike Dwyer have fired the opening shots in our discussion about the latest budget proposal from that fiscal firebrand from Janesville, Paul Ryan, and Tod Kelly (who has just been knocking them out of the park on these pages recently) has given a much-needed reminder to everyone that minding our manners…
A really interesting piece from the Times‘ Binyamin Appelbaum focuses on how parts of the country where the housing bubble was the most pronounced — and where there was historically nowhere near the same level of economic output prior to the bubble that there was during those golden years — aren’t bouncing-back as textbook economics…
Over at Not a Potted Plant, Will has been commenting one of the newer internet political memes: Carbonite. Carbonite is a publicly traded stock company that asked it’s advertising agency to pull ads from the Rush Limbaugh show after the Slut-gate. (Hey! I just coined a “-gate!” I am finally a real blogger.) The story…
“The hard part of freedom is that you always have a chance of getting it wrong, which is why, we tend to point people to cheaper rather than expensive options… Buy a Columbia 34 for $10K and a year later if you’re unhappy with it you can sell it for around $10K, on the other…
Alan Jacobs, writing at TheAtlantic.com: [O]ne of the illusions most common to writers — an illusion that may make the long slow slog of writing possible, for many people — is that an enormous audience is out there waiting for the wisdom and delight that I alone can provide, and that the Publishing System is a giant…