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Quick Thoughts on Luke
During my (attempted) daily Bible chapter reading, I finished Exodus the other day and just couldn’t bear to jump right into Leviticus. So, I decided to take a break by reading random chapters from the Gospels for a few days. I happened upon Luke 12 one night, and wow it is really just chock full […]
Read moreBarro vs. Krugman on World War II
UPDATE below All right, I’ve been letting the tabs accumulate on my browser, so I’d better blog this and knock them down to a reasonable number. As many of you probably know, Robert Barro published an article in the WSJ saying that back-of-the-envelope calculations show that the multiplier on World War II military spending is […]
Read more"Would You Chinamen Stop Saving So Much?!?!"
You might expect such analysis from The Dishwasher or The Water Boy, but no, it’s from The Economist (HT2 Tim Swanson). I don’t even need to read this article. Even if it were somehow true that Chinese savings are causing “global imbalances” and hence our financial crisis, that would just prove to me our current […]
Read moreObama Makes His Bones as President
…by ordering Predator strikes that allegedly killed at least 3 children. (HT2 LRC) Some of the comments at the Times UK site were great; the featured 3 (when I clicked on it) were: There are few places in the West where a man could be convicted on the basis of the evidence we have seen […]
Read moreWIll Krugman Defend Thain’s Stimulus?
In case you haven’t heard, former Merrill CEO John Thain resigned today, presumably because of this scandal (HT2 Gene Callahan for the video): UPDATE: This video was messing up my precious Google ads, so I took it down. You can click the link above to watch it. On his show today Rush made the great […]
Read moreLew Rockwell Podcast with Bob Murphy
Available here. (Note: Don’t let the .mp3 ending fool you; the hyperlink takes you to a page where you can play the podcast from your browser.)
Read moreMotley Being a Fool on "Enterprise Value"?
A colleague asked me about “enterprise value” and passed along this discussion: Enterprise value (EV) represents a company’s economic value — the minimum amount someone would have to pay to buy it outright. It’s an important number to consider when you’re valuing a stock. You may remember that market capitalization (the current stock price multiplied […]
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