Author Archives for wintercow20
The Magna Carta is Being Sold
Is it really because they need the money? Are we all to become slaves when it is sold to a rogue foreign government?
Read about it here.
OJ Simpson Got Me Thinking
OJ was recently released on bail while he awaits a trial date for his latest disaster. Much in our court system seems to be radicically violent to the sensibilities of anyone who values freedom: police are permitted to harass suspects without impunity, even if they are ultimately proven innocent; compulsory jury duty is a blatant enslavement […]
Is Anyone Learning Real Macroeconomics?
Robert Lucas has an interesting column in today’s Wall Street Journal on the two biggest advances in macroeconomics over the last half-decade (tax reducations and inflation targeting). I am not asking anyone to debate whether this view is on target, but rather I am curious as to whether any of you have encountered any real […]
Christa Passed Both Her Comps!
She’s too modest to broadcast it, so I figured I would do her the favor. She is now among the Econ Tribe. I hope she is looking forward to the next four decades of producing research papers that nobody will read … OK, I don’t mean that. Congratulations and we look forward to great things […]
Training Idiot Savants
This should only require a single post-it note. How about all of my fellow economists in training keep a running tally of how much practical economics they are exposed to during their coursework in graduate school? I recall never hearing the names of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, etc. uttered yet once. […]
