I teach today, so this will be quick. Why am I opposed to raising interest rates? First, I should mention this is a debate which we’ve had before. When the [ … ]
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1000 cuts. Gig Economy, Entrepreneur & Gov licensing
Can we agree that professional licensing requirements are meant to be exclusionary? Whatever opportunity there was, that door is being closed. Can we also agree that the government doesn’t create anything? [ … ]
The Peso has recovered. Good news for the future of NAFTA…
With the US dollar already a bit overvalued, and the US stock market also looking richly valued by historical measures, I need something to invest in each month. Thus, I [ … ]
Capital Illogic
More Bank Capital Could Kill the Economy write Tim Congdon and the usually sensible Steve Hanke in today’s Wall Street Journal. I was expecting a quantitative disagreement on plausible channels — [ … ]
Some Matrix Shit…
Journalism 101: every hacking story must include a pic of a dude in hoodie/mask or hands on keyboard & either binary or some matrix shit
Sales. Why people pay more. Our case study: Bank v Check Casher
Technology brings efficiency and productivity gains, but its asymmetrical. The provider captures the most of the gains, improved shareholder equity, earnings, they can redirect staff away from servicing clients and [ … ]
Uber. Beginning the postmortem
Must we wait til the corpse of Uber is cold to begin its postmortem? This will be divided up into three posts, this first one is comparative biology, the bookend on [ … ]
Is healthcare a human right? Let’s talk amongst ourselves
I have written extensively about ObamaCare, its legislative construction, finances. All it’s good and bad. But we have to resolve its root question, without it we’ll always be stumbling around, [ … ]
Explaining why ObamaCare HAS to be unwound in pieces…
Way back in 2009 when ObamaCare was being constructed, there were two procedural legislative constructs to create ObamaCare, one from the House (Pelosi), and one from the Senate (Reid). The [ … ]
Human Equity. Social Capital and Bowie Bonds for Everyone
I had written in an earlier post about social capital. It was kept with the narrow framework of the ‘gig economy’ and even more narrowly that new mechanisms will be needed to [ … ]