Saturday, October 1, 2022
Covid
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A series of three blog posts about the governments response to Covid: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/p...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Scammers
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Here is an interesting article about the military-romantic scam that is run out of Africa and that cost gullible American women millions of...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
The Check Tax
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From the NBER Reporter Fall 1995 page 31, summarizing William D, Lastrapes and George Selgin, University of Georgia, “The Check Tax and The...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Cereal crops vs root crops in the development of civilization
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Did the potato and other root crops hinder the development of complex societies among those who cultivated it? A group of economists present...
Thursday, April 7, 2016
The science was settled
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The Sugar Conspiracy is a long article that argues that the epidemic of obesity was caused by nutritionists, a group that has for years alm...
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Let's repeal the law of supply and demand
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Found on Powerline: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/03/the-best-sanders-endorsement-yet.php
Monday, August 24, 2015
Betty Glan
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In The Forgotten Man (HarperCollins, 2007) author Amity Shlaes recounts a visit to the USSR in 1927 by a group of American intellectuals i...
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Friday, August 14, 2015
A quote about Argentina
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"For example in the 1920s, Argentina had a larger market capitalization than did the United Kingdom. However, its equity maraket all bu...
Friday, August 22, 2014
Reflections on The Big Short by Michael Lewis
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In The Big Short Michael Lewis tells the story of the financial meltdown of 2007-2008 from the point of view of several people who saw it ...
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Review of Flash Boys by Micheal Lewis
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No one matches Michael Lewis' ability to take an arcane topic of finance and use it to build a narrative that is not only educational, b...
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