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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

What quid did the president quo and when did he quo it?

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Aside from the headline news about a July 26 phone call, I learned four big things from the impeachment inquiry hearing this morning. First,...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

OK, Who Approved Of The Ads Here Now?

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And not only that, presumably they are paying money to put them on, so who is getting that money?  I am not, although it may not amount to m...
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Friday, November 8, 2019

"ok boomer " or "gas all boomers"

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Within the last week or so there seems to have been an explosion of yattering over "ok boomer." Over the last few years in various...
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Thursday, November 7, 2019

Mankiw’s Ideal Democrat (Bloomberg Alert)

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Greg Mankiw has always been a Never Trumper: I just came back from city hall, where I switched my voter registration from Republican to un...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

The ARAMCO IPO Stumbles Out The Door

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Finally after numerous delays, the potentially largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) of stock has finally become for fully state-owned ARAMC...
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Monday, November 4, 2019

Has Tyler Cowen or John Cochrane Ever Heard of Monopsony Power?

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I’m going to replicate one portion of a long winded rant about alleged cognitive dissonance : The argument for a minimum wage is that labo...
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Saturday, November 2, 2019

Republican Senators Suggest Trump’s Treason is Legal

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Yes – we know President Clinton cheated on his wife while in office. And yes some Republicans such as Trump sycophant Lindsey Graham passed ...
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Thursday, October 31, 2019

The Death Of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi And Related Matters

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The self-proclaimed "Caliph" of Da'esh/ISIL/ISIS, Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarri, who took the name Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has...
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Thursday, October 24, 2019

The Famous Baseball-Watching Equality-Equity Graphic, Scrutinized

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Here’s the graphic, widely used to explain why equity outcomes require unequal treatment of different people. Benjamin Studebaker (ha...
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Whither Lebanon?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.  I should probably write about the "big successs" we have in Northeastern Syria thanks to Vladdie Putin talking ...
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Sunday, October 20, 2019

Mike Pompeo Reminds Me of Al Capone

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How to say in Latin that our Secretary of State is pompous and dishonest as it gets? Oh yea – if one says “quid pro quo” in English, it neve...
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Friday, October 18, 2019

The Ultimate Solution

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Yes, Trump really said that.  The Syrian Kurds, who have been where they are about to be ethnically cleansed out of, are welcoming "the...
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An Increasingly Divergent US Economy

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Lots of people have been huffing and puffing about whether or not the US economy will go into a recession in the near future, with Menzie Ch...
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Monday, October 14, 2019

A Nobel for the Randomistas

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I don’t think anyone was surprised by this year’s “Nobel” prize in economics, which went to three American-based specialists in the design o...
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Saturday, October 12, 2019

Eeeeeeeeemoluments And How Bad Bruce Springsteen Is

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I have almost never watched through a Trump speech to one of his rallies, but I was curious what he would say at the first one after the imp...
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