February 2012
12 posts
“What Chad is doing on Grindr—sending out face pics, chatting about his homosex...”
– Savage Love
“Defenders of the massive New Deal-Great Society entitlements are inclined to see...”
– Will Wilkinson, Taking Welfare and Hating It
“By providing means for small savers to protect themselves from inflation when...”
– Starter Savings Accounts
“Or is it all those people (I believe they call themselves consultants) who get...”
– Touching the void - FT.com
“The law—the world’s largest-scale attempt to bring philosophy into the public...”
– Boston Review — Carlos Fraenkel: Citizen Philosophers
“That’s why I, at least, will be rooting for more marriages to fail in 2012.”
– Recession and divorce: How the recovery will cause a boom in failed marriages, and why it’s good news. - Slate Magazine
Is Intrade really that useful? →
When I read this, what I really see is “markets are not very useful.” That’s what Intrade is. So I’m baffled.
The suggestion that pundits might be as accurate as prediction markets is not only empirically false, but is a mere analogue to saying that bureaucrats can coordinate economic activity as well as markets can.
It’s not that any one indicator (punditry,...
January 2012
17 posts
Evolving standards in the moral case for war. →
“War is not all upside. It involves huge economic and moral costs. It is a systematic campaign of the destruction of capital, infrastructure, and human life in direct violation of national sovereignty. If you’re an uber-Libertarian, it may also bother you that war often involves the state sending its own citizens (and their financial resources) to fight and die on foreign soils based on a...
All Together Now →
“Finance is a critical function in today’s complex global economy. It is clear it stumbled badly in performing its basic function, and it seems beyond argument that it has far outgrown its proper place in the socioeconomic sphere and its share, deserved and undeserved, of the economic pie. But I find it hard to imagine any meaningful function performed by the financial system which can be...
m.guardian.co.uk →
“I am really, really happy to have done this for a few years. Very proud to have survived among the best and brightest. It’s like bootcamp in the army. I am coming out of this much stronger. It pushed me to go back to the basics; to what is really important for me, as a human being. I have discovered what my values are, and now I am acting on them. I am leaving banking.”
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December 2011
10 posts
November 2011
14 posts
