Adumbration

In short, we don’t need “government policies that boost them along”. more »

In the same week I found two distinct but complementary takes on the question of whether there might be better ways to improve education among the poorest in our communities. more »

Among the recent news is a report in Nature Materials out of Charles Lieber's lab at Harvard, describing what they call "nanoelectronic scaffolds for synthetic tissues."  This sort of topic is liable for all sorts of hyperbolic rambling, so I'll try to restrain myself. more »

I am amazed and disappointed that Seattle's City Council can be considering yet one more public subsidy to sports teams.  How do we know it is a subsidy? for one thing, if the stadium enthusiasts were just in business, then all they would need is a building permit. more »

I have made several posts concerning various perspectives on the current economic crisis, and thought it would be useful to summarize and comment on those item in a single piece. more »

Roberts and Papola made two rap videos about the differences between Hayek and Keynes - these episodes discuss the underlying ideas and the work to create the videos. more »

Econtalk host Russ Roberts recently interviewed Neil Barofsky, former Special Inspector General of the TARP (and life long democrat), about his work with the Troubled Asset Relief Program and other related programs.  Barofsky was responsible for making sure that the taxpayer money spent in those programs had some semblance of accountability, and instead was faced with obstacles thrown up not by the banks, but by the US administration and Treasury departments. more »

... the scams are so obvious because the perpetrators need to filter out the people who won't end up sending money. more »

Science Friday exposes another example of capital consumption on a recent episode concerning the health of bridges around the United States. more »