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Another Nuanced Hip Hop Artist

Jacob Huebert posted this video on LRC. Check out the lyrics; it’s surprisingly sophisticated. (By that I mean, “I agree with this guy on a lot of issues.”) You’d think with a name like Lupe Fiasco, this poor kid wouldn’t have amounted to anything. But he played the hand he’d been dealt.

Silas Barta Gives a Bit of an Explanation

Word for word, this is by far the best explanation I’ve read about the nuts and bolts behind BitCoin. Yes, I’m writing on it very soon, it’s just that I have to coordinate with my technical co-author. (And some of you thought I should have banned Silas from the blog years ago. You see, I […]

Talking to the Man

A reader writes: Thanks for all you do. I recently relocated to my hometown area in the midwest (iowa/illionois border) and I work as a dotNet applications developer/programmer for a local community bank (about 1.8 billion in assets, 57million in gross profit, and 6.6 million in net income/year). I take pride in what I do […]

Fact Check on Credit CARD Act

Believe it or not, there is some quality control on my op eds. I am working on something concerning Elizabeth Warren, and I want to know exactly what it means when the Credit CARD Act “bans arbitrary increases in credit card interest rates for consumers who haven’t missed payments.” (E.g. look here.) What I want […]

“I’m a Scientist, Nothing Shocks Me.”

That may not be an exact quote, but that’s a line from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I was reminded of it when reading David Friedman’s recent blog post on evolutionary theory and new evidence that a low-salt diet might be bad for you. Friedman wrote: There is a longstanding argument for reducing […]

Pot Calling the Kettle a Pot

A news blurb when I signed into Yahoo! “AP – Angry mobs attacked Western embassies and U.N. offices in Tripoli Sunday after NATO bombed Moammar Gadhafi’s family compound in an attack officials said killed the leader’s second-youngest son and three grandchildren. Russia accused the Western alliance of exceeding its U.N. mandate of protecting Libyan civilians […]

Does Modern Biology Really Depend on the (Full) Version of Evolution?

[UPDATE below.] In a recent blog post on religious belief David Friedman wrote: [U]nlike the (current) Catholics, a significant part of what [Protestant fundamentalists in the United States] reject is modern science, in particular the theory of evolution, which underlies quite a lot of modern biology. You see that claim made a lot in the […]

The Capitalist in the Hat

In my quest to become the Mike Myers of Austrian economics, I tackle entrepreneurship and Dr. Seuss today at Mises.org: An amusing story on NPR recently explained the origin of a new collection of Dr. Seuss stories. The tale involves an entrepreneurial dentist with a passion for Seuss and a knack for exploiting price spreads. […]