Magnitude Matters

Partial list of ways my neighbors like so, so many homeowners wish to have it both ways--despite the blatant contradictions. While many of t...

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...

Ben Thompson writes : Swift is doing the exact same thing, which is why the story of her breakup with Big Machine and the question of who wa...

The Fixed Window Fallacy is an error in reasoning whereby people believe they know or can know what is nice/preferred/optimal. This line of ...

We continue catching up on links with three on economics. Every one of these contains a large degree of counter-conventional wisdom. Somethi...

I've been on some of these . Perhaps I should set a goal to eventually be on each one. See if you can spot the one Forrest Gump was on. ...

I want to go to then . Don Boudreaux on Piketty.  Steve Landsburg  on Piketty.  Garrett Jones on Piketty. Sugar bad , but  fat good . ...

One of the growing pains associated with getting wealthier is that things change in value and thereby the dynamics of tradeoffs change in t...

Gun rights are dead. Long live gun rights! Caplan offers some great insight  into the Briggs-Tabarrok Effect, a study which shows that gun a...

Other titles considered for this post: What's one man's treasure, is another man's rental. Something borrowed . . . I...

Partial List of My Most “Controversial” Views (in no particular order and subject to change)   Government should ideally exit fully ...

As an investment professional, I follow the insider trading laws. And as a CFA charterholder, I follow the more rigorous ethics required by ...

As we continue to hurtle ourselves toward the fiscal cliff as the Mayans predicted, the prospects for meaningful tax reform dwindles. I thou...

I recently took the family to the 36th annual Oklahoma City Train Show . Since my 3-year-old son thinks trains are the reason for man's ...

I want to discuss my views on the currently trendy topic of copyright and patent law. It seems the more the law tightens its grip, the more ...

A friend sends me  this link to a video of research done on Capuchin monkeys concerning payment for learned tasks. The essence of the video...

A few thoughts on ticket prices for events, sporting and otherwise. My familiarity is with sporting event pricing, but I assume most of this...

For the most powerful empires, revolution resulting in substantial and lasting change usually must come from within. I believe the NCAA has ...

Warren Zola of The Sports Law Blog brings good news in the struggle for justice against the mighty NCAA cartel. The plaintiffs in the O...

Like a bad penny, the infamous Gold Dome of northwest, central OKC is back in the news. It is one of those “classic” and “iconic” architect...