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The Authoritarian Impulse: Getting What We Really Don’t Want
As a society crumbles, as bitter divisions grow and disorder spreads and nothing seems to work, anger comes and people begin to want a man who will say “Enough!” and [ … ]
Some International Data on Industrial Robots
Via Adam Tooze on Twitter. The picture quality is poor, but here it is below. The US in fact has fewer robots than Germany and Japan, and yet manufacturing employment [ … ]
Spikes
Jon Hartley, writing in Forbes, offers a great graph of the overnight Federal Funds rate, This graph mirrors nicely the graph I posted last week, from “Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity” [ … ]
…let the Government into your heart
At times South Park is elegant, it questions and answers. And it’s funny. Please watch the video. Laugh… 1 video = 10,000 words (takes a few seconds to load) https://www.adamtownsend.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Choose-Government-or-Religion.mp4
answers ‘what are columnists?’
] is a great writer. I have read many of his articles, spent time on his website and gone back into his literary vaults. He wrote posts in the 1980’s [ … ]
The Gold Standard, the Great Depression, and the Brilliance of NES Students…
Tomorrow’s lecture is, in part, covering a homework on the Great Depression in which the students were asked to redo some of a classic Bernanke and James article on the [ … ]
Pity the Poor Politicians
photo credit: Bigstock The contempt in which we hold most of our politicians, while largely justified, is also dangerous. Politics seems increasingly to be the means by which people who [ … ]
More covered interest parity
Several correspondents were kind enough to send me additional work on covered interest parity. There are two big questions (and a third at the end): 1) what force pushes prices [ … ]
More good finance articles
The February Issue of the Journal of Finance made it to the top of my stack, and it has a lot of good articles. The first two especially caught my [ … ]










