Magnitude Matters

My wife and daughter just returned from a delightful long weekend in Santa Fe, NM. The entire family will return soon to Saint Francis's...

The more local something is the more essentially socialistic it becomes. I think the best way to describe this is that size/complexity has a...

The quick versus the dead . And a more complete review . Imagine various conversations at a board of directors meeting of a major corporatio...

It has been too long since I shared things worth reading... Scott Sumner explains just how rigged it all is in America, and how despite t...

I just filed my tax return, so it seems like a logical time to post on taxes. The current regime (a Democrat-Republican alliance co-opted ...

I have been thinking about taxes recently and actually had a couple of potential posts noodling around in my mind and my notes for the past ...

Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark . . . A new day is dawning in sports. A tyrannical dragon ha...

Imagine two rooms: one is a group of consumers and one is a group of producers. For now the rooms are completely isolated from one another. ...

Re: The Great Stagnation I've been thinking about low-hanging fruit from changes in political economy. I mean this as a constructive g...

I've returned from a jam-packed trip to NYC that was part business and part pleasure. I always find it hard to leave New York without fe...

On today's NPR Morning Edition Bloomberg Businessweek assistant managing Editor Paul Barrett was trying to express concern but instead ...