What should the Federal Reserve do, to control inflation, given that nominal interest rate = real interest rate + expected inflation, and that real interest rates vary over time in [ … ]
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Adam Townsend Deluxe Bio. Directors Cut
This is the deluxe Adam Townsend biography with the bonus features. If you would like to know where I have worked and who I have met please visit my LinkedIn. My [ … ]
An explainer: Why it’s so hard to detangle ObamaCare
Repealing and replacing ObamaCare, or anything in-between is not an on/off light switch. Instead, any change in the light requires an entire deconstruction and reconstruction of the entire house. To [ … ]
Robotics. Peak Horse then Peak Human now
Every form of non-human power that substitutes and reduces the value of human physical output has been more than offset and very form of non-human manipulation that substitutes for and tends [ … ]
Oipiod addicts. Resurrecting dormant human capital
I have written a lot recently about the Gig Economy. This maybe my last new post and all that remains is a sum of the total. I’ll begin with describing [ … ]
Tension between Politics and Economics
Why is US growth so stagnant? From the great recession in 2009, usually a time of super-fast catch-up growth, it has only grown at two percent per year. Two percent, [ … ]
Zero to One. A review of just one paragraph
Every great company is unique, but there are a few things that every business must get right at the beginning . I stress this so often that friends have teasingly [ … ]
PT 1. Federal Control of Labor #Resistance #NotMyRegulations
I don’t watch much TV. I don’t like commercials, either the shorter form explicitly paid for and selling an explicit product, or those implicitly paid for and selling an implicit [ … ]
Cashless. Gold, Barter and Bitcoin. New ways to cheat at Monopoly
The banker in Monopoly has an advantage. As a kid, playing with my sister and her girl friends, being that I was the youngest of the group, a boy and [ … ]
A Better Education Outside of School
When enough people are employed to solve a problem, means become ends. People are adept at aligning their principles with their pocketbooks, they persuade themselves, and me, that their programs [ … ]