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Income and Consumption: It’s OK to Be Different

You kids know me, when Steve Landsburg has a new post up with which I find myself in 99% agreement, I have to focus on what I don’t like. (It’s not a grudge or anything. I’m actually testing the Coase Theorem’s prediction that Steve will efficiently offer me $10,000 to leave him alone.) Anyway, both […]

Sci Fi Geek Fact Check

Bryan Caplan desperately wants there to be more to life than arguing with Robin Hanson over population growth, so he believes in the existence of aliens (Martian, not Hispanic) despite serious evidence against it. Part of Bryan’s case was this claim: Our powers of detection are bad enough to overlook hundreds of billions of planets. […]

The Thrill Is Gone, Daily Show Edition

Aww too bad. At first I was elated that the Daily Show was going after somebody who had been a hypocrite in her attack on the Tea Party, but this skit totally breaks down. It is clear she knows what’s going on and is just happy to be on the show. It makes me wonder […]

“Don’t Count Out Jon Huntsman”

I heard him rallying the troops on an NPR clip. I kid you not, Huntsman actually said with passion, “The people of New Hampshire don’t like to be told for whom they should vote!” I don’t know whether to laugh or salute. People want a politician who says what he thinks is right, not what […]

We Will Not Solve the Debt Issue During This Generation

[Second UPDATE: Gene Callahan wants to be clear that he did acknowledge that he had initially misunderstood Nick Rowe’s model. Now that he gets what Rowe was describing, Gene concedes that it is possible, but points out (correctly) that we can achieve the same impact on everyone in the model through government tax-and-transfer actions, rather […]

Don’t Give Up!

This was making the rounds on Facebook.

“Hey Bob, Your Blog Is Down!”

Yes, I had noticed. (The funny thing is, I could determine how big a fan you were, based on how many days went by before you noticed and emailed me.) I am in the process of moving to a different host. I’ll tell the whole sordid tale once that is down. The URL will still […]

Warren Buffett Bask

In his famous op ed in August, Warren Buffett wanted the government to stop coddling him and raise his taxes. He wrote that his federal tax bill was just under $7 million, and that what he “paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income.” OK so presumably that’s because most of his income consists […]