28 June 2015

What the Acceleration of Product Adoption Means for Politicians Who Resist Social Change

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"Dude," did you see how the gays just like, organized and got same-sex marriage legal, like, everywhere?" Dude exhales. Gigg...
25 June 2015

The Stock Market as a Place Where Learning is Punished

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One popular theory about the stock market is that its movement is random. This theory states that today’s prices reflect everything we now ...
20 June 2015

Herbal Economics: Economic Policy in Modern Democracies

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About half of Americans believe at least one medical conspiracy theory . The most popular belief is that the FDA is "deliberately preve...
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15 June 2015

Jeb or Jed? A Voters Guide

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Jeb Bush officially announced today that he's running for president. It's a crowded field in the Republican primary so to save you f...
10 June 2015

The Entire History of the Nation in Just a Word or Two From 24 Different Presidents

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R. Luke Dubois has created a fascinating way to see which words the presidents used most frequently in their state of the union addresses h...

Confusing Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Innovation and entrepreneurship are closely related but you can make a big mistake by thinking that they are the same thing. They are not. ...
07 June 2015

Will Hillary's Campaign Strategy Make the Country More Polarized?

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Today's NY Times has an article about Hillary Clinton's probable strategy, written by Jonathon Martin and Maggie Haberman. Bill Clin...
05 June 2015

Why Fear Sells in the Republican Primary

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With the exception of Rand Paul, the 10 to 17 Republican candidates running for the White House all say they would not have invaded Iraq but...
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04 June 2015

Rick Perry's Country Rap (C-Rap) Campaign Song

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Today Rick Perry announced he is running for president. As the field of dubious candidates grows, it is a reminder that not every child shou...
03 June 2015

Education Myth vs. Education Reality - When Knowledge Work Boosts Your Economy

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I remember a conversation with a man who grew up in the Soviet Union. This was a time when the Soviets had the best chess players and a mili...
30 May 2015

Why Capitalism Might Yet Topple Democracy (It's Not How You Think)

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In just the last decade, you can walk into frozen yogurt shop and make a dessert that has exactly the mix of nuts and berries and candies ...
24 May 2015

Betting Against the Euro Zone

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About a dozen friends sign a pact. They are going to become better people. They debate a few variables and finally agree to the same workout...
22 May 2015

A Few Economic Metrics (as the Nation Seriously Considers Hiring a Third Bush for President)

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17 May 2015

Personalized DNA Analysis Will Eventually Be Something You Can't Live Without

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Personalized DNA analysis reminds me of computers in the early 1980s. In 1983, fresh out of university, I managed a ComputerLand store. P...
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14 May 2015

Forecasting 2nd Stage of Recovery - After 1/2 Decade of Job Creation We Will Have a 1/2 Decade of Wage Growth

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Through April, the American economy has been creating jobs (11 million) for 55 straight months.This is a record for uninterrupted job growth...
22 April 2015

$2 Billion for Campaigning May Sound Like a Lot But It's a Trivial Sum

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I recently heard that Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton will probably spend a billion each for their presidential campaigns. This seemed to the c...
14 April 2015

How Those Wacky Social Conservatives Sound to Me

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Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine "That was never the intention of the founding fathers," some social conservative ...
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12 April 2015

The British as Social Inventors (or, the policies that could make the UK wildly prosperous again)

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The UK will elect its next prime minister in just a few weeks, on 7 May. As an American, I envy the fact that British politics is so mu...