Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Rising R-Squared of Politics and Markets

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I always preface this endeavor by saying that predicting the stock market is a fool's errand, but who can resist sometimes? So, at the r...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Are We Socialist Yet?

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To answer this, we have to define what socialism is. There’s often confusion surrounding this, of course. An article in my local paper this ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Some Musings on Taxation

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Question: What is Hauser's Law? Answer: The Most Simple, Important Economic Concept You've Never Heard Of In 1993...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

People Are Irrational - More Evidence

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Can you find the rational agents? There are many problems with the theory, of course, but the one that has always stuck out for me is the wh...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Inflation - The Other Side of the Story

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We often hear the phrase, "moral equivalent to war." I would like to introduce a new thought, which is the "economi...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Travelogue - Disneyworld

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We love traditions in our family, and one is that each one of our kids gets a solo trip to Disney World with Kelley and me on graduatio...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Bad Parent?

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This month I will focus on inflation, irrationality, and Mickey Mouse. But first, can someone tell me what's up with the weather? Someon...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Crash Test Dummies

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I spent the better part of my undergraduate career in a restaurant named Rudy’s. Okay, it wasn’t a restaurant, exactly, although I t...