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Correction on Weitzman’s Position on Geoengineering

I realized after it posted that in my IER post on Nordhaus’ book review of Weitzman (and his co-author), I misunderstood one of Nordhaus’ passages. I thought Nordhaus was saying that Weitzman (and co-author) wondered whether humans should even be learning more about geoengineering because of its risks, but I learned elsewhere that Weitzman is […]

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How Loving Jesus Has Transformed My Life

In this post, I will explain why my embrace of Christianity–accepting Jesus as my savior–has transformed my life. I offer this primarily for those who are open-minded and just really don’t understand what this is all about. However, I also offer it in the spirit of specificity for those who will say, “A ha! Bob’s […]

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Steve Landsburg Has Still Got It

In the last two weeks I have met two young’ins who volunteered to me that they are reading Landsburg’s The Armchair Economist. Ah, I fondly remember when I had just graduated from college and read Steve’s book. Not many people know why movie theaters charge so much for popcorn, but those two young’ins soon will.

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Jon Stewart Rips the Media Attacks on Marco Rubio

Even if he does this just to maintain the appearance of balance, that’s still admirable. And it’s funny enough that I think he’s serious. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook,Daily Show Video Archive

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Update on Commenting Issues

OK I am going to try to go into the Spam folder periodically and approve comments that the plug-in erroneously marked as Spam. Apparently, this will help it learn over time which ones to allow and which to divert. So that means some of you will see duplicate comments, because you resubmitted under a different […]

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Problems With the Comments?

At least two of you have written me lately, complaining that your comments are being consumed. (And you’re not even referring to Lord Keynes’ criticism.) Can you tell me specifically what you are experiencing, and also for how long? There was a recent maintenance action that WordPress performed, so if something was screwed up today […]

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Latest Video From Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics

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Myyy Kind of Town

Sorry for the late notice, but I don’t think I yet posted this? On Friday I will be in Chicago with Nelson Nash for a seminar put on by National Private Client Group. Details here. Karaoke after (of course).

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