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Innovate or Die
I recently found the words "Innovate or Die" in two fairly orthogonal places. One was in an article in the New Yorker about the animal kingdoms con…
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Taxing Capital Gains Yearly
There's a great video where Larry Summers, Gregory Mankiw and Emmanuel Saez discuss. Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez…
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Economic Skullduggery
Larry H. Summers calls into question Saez and Zucmans research and the data they used in it at around 20 minutes. Gregory Mankiw calls them out at…
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Father Forgets
I highly recommend reading How to Win Friends and Influence People. It's an exceptional book and as relevant today as when it was first written. In it I…
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Truck Automation
Lint Pritchett in Foreign Affairs wrote an article about the perils of automation. While I felt he got off to a good start his article took a dive for…
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Carbon Tax and Gas prices
The following is a gross oversimplification but I needed to get some numbers down. Where I'm at a gallon of gas is around $4.50 which I think is crazy…
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Climate Change
This is a Lamborghini Contach, bask in it's magnificence! When I whizz past you in my Lambo taking the kids/kid (the other two can walk) to school I get…
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Elephant in the Room
I love Milton Friedman. His book Free To Choose and Hayeks The Road To Serfdom swung me more towards classical liberalism than anything before or since…
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