Morning Ed: Economics {2018.03.29.Th}
Socialists, socialism, innovation, and destruction.
Morning Ed: Economics {2017.09.27.W}
Money, money, money.
Linky Friday: Home Ec
Family, Food, Gender, Pets, Shopping
Linky Friday: Out Of This World
First comes Relationships, then comes a Family. Then, uhhh, Athletes spend a lot of Money going to Space? {#203}
Linky Friday #199: Women & Men & Space
This Week: Gender, Relationships, Nicotine, Money, Planet, and Space!
What Trump has in Common with a Subsistence Farmer
Not paying taxes for 18 years is not necessarily tax evasion
Linky Friday #187: Your Money Or Your Life
CNMHW Crime, Nature, Money, Health, Work
Linky Friday #177: Creatures, Cities, Calories
This Week: Cities, Gender, Health, Money, and Creatures!
Morning Ed: Money {2016.06.15.W}
More Thiel, shuttering factories, and barber shops
The Church Has Shifted from Religious Outreach to Religious Profit
Dear Church,
Find a way to spend more money on your outreach and less on your facilities.
Sincerely,
An Uncomfortable Christian
Linky Friday #167: God & Superman
This week: Religion, Money, Education, Nature, and Comics!
Linky Friday #166: Everything Is Awful
This Week: Asia, Education, Health, Money, Work, and Progress!
Morning Ed: Money {2016.04.28.Th}
Move around money, watch it fly…
Two Hamiltons For A Tubman
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.
Linky Friday #155: Fear
This week: Money, Crime, Government, Nature, Health, Brains!
An Experiment In Minimizing
Ice cream. It’s all that.
But Burt Likko can’t enjoy it because his wallet’s fat.
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Red Jobs, Blue Jobs [Updated/Updating]
Profession predisposes peoples’ political preferences. Perhaps.
Little Help Here?
Goldbugs on the loose in Austin!
Would You Like Fries With That Midterm?
It’s not news that adjunct professors don’t get paid a lot. But it is at least remarkable when life imitates Breaking Bad.
Money!
I want money (that’s what I want).
An Adjunct’s Lament
It’s the last session of class. What runs through the adjunct professor’s mind?
To No One’s Surprise
A squib of a post about this morning’s Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. Very brief: aggregate campaign donation limits unconstitutional.
The Ethics and Incentives of Socialized Law
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.”
One Court To Rule Them All
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.
A Thoroughly Unreasonable Request
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.
Deception With Statistics
Will getting that J.D. really pay for itself?
A Capitalist’s Love Ballad to Bankruptcy
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…
Why I Read Bryan Caplan
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…
It Seems Appropriate…
…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…
Tax Credits and Subsidies
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.…
Idiots and Maniacs
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…
Eating Peas
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…
The Future Is Now: The Birth Of The American Wasteland
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…
You Have Carbonite Sickness, But Your Sight Will Return Shortly – or, why Limbaugh didn’t really kill Carbonite, and the Left hasn’t really killed Limbaugh
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 Rich Buddha (Slight Return)
“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…
Self-Publishing is Over
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…
