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Ralphie Becomes Wiser

One of my favorite scenes:

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I Found a New Place to Dwell

I’ve revamped the “Read At Your Own Risk” links since the old list was pretty stale. The one major change I want to draw to your attention is the addition of J.P. Koning’s blog. Just click on it right now and scroll through the topics. If you are interested in the history of monetary institutions, [...]

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Polish Data Bask

Can anyone point me to “official” statistics for Polish consumer price inflation and GDP growth from, say, 2000 onward?

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Materialism Is Not Obviously Correct

I used to be a hardcore materialist. I confess, I don’t know that I ever would have abandoned the position if it weren’t for becoming a theist (again). So believe me when I say that I understand why an atheist has difficulty even conceiving of what it would mean, to not be a reductive materialist. [...]

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Regression Bask

[UPDATE below.] I’m seeing someone do something in a paper that strikes me as odd. So let me ask some of you stats guys what you think: Suppose I run a regression to see what effect independent variables X1, X2, …, Xn have on Y. I come up with my regression coefficients on each of [...]

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Question on Financial Repercussions of Secession

[Second UPDATE below.] [UPDATE below.] Something is puzzling me here. People who are willing to have a war to prevent secession argue that they are trying to prevent secessionists from imposing costs on everybody else. But what are the actual calculations to yield this result? Let’s take Texas for example. Depending on which estimate you [...]

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Technical Bask: Easiest Way to Record an Audio Interview?

Hey kids, I am going to interview a Big Gun (not Rumseld, but someone you know) for an upcoming issue of the Lara-Murphy Report. The person is busy though, and wants to just do it over the phone (rather than typing in answers to a Word document I send, full of questions). What is the [...]

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Yet Another (More Informed) Plug for Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom

And here’s the link to fund the Murphy Christmas Initiative.

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