Categories: "Culture"
rant on Brooks on Elon Musk
September 25th, 2012In short, we don’t need “government policies that boost them along”. more »
two educational podcasts
September 24th, 2012In 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 »
cyborganisms
September 19th, 2012Among 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 »
yet another Seattle sports stadium subsidy
September 16th, 2012I 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 »
rapping the financial crisis, on econtalk
September 11th, 2012Roberts 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 »
bailouts on econtalk
September 10th, 2012Econtalk 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 »
Nigerian prince scams - exposed!
September 9th, 2012... the scams are so obvious because the perpetrators need to filter out the people who won't end up sending money. more »
RIP, Space Cadet
August 28th, 2012We might tell ourselves that the moon landing was about exploration and science, but perspectives of time and profession show the years of the space race in the context of the cold war. Those Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions were footnotes to the main story, that the United States could launch the biggest god-damn bomb in the history of the universe and land it in the middle of the Kremlin. more »
Modern Monetary Theory - Introduction
July 14th, 2012This essay is about Warren Mosler's booklet entitled "SEVEN DEADLY INNOCENT FRAUDS OF ECONOMIC POLICY" more »
bitcoin on econtalk
June 27th, 2012And now for something completely different, an interview with one of the people working up a fully digital currency that is completely independent of commodity basis and of national boundaries. more »
