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Once more on the comments

Some of you had trouble posting comments on the previous post. Again, I have no idea why, but for some reason WordPress decided to turn off the ability to comment after I posted some replies. Rest assured, I wasn’t shutting down discussion. So I think I turned them back on. UPDATE: Now, as an added […]

Oh Gosh

Am I missing some kind of pun or something? Or does Selgin actually have an academic working paper that starts with “Oh Dear”? I am prepared to withdraw my objection if he’s being a wiseguy (as he’s been known to do) regarding something in the Bagus/Howden paper. I skimmed the title and abstract of their […]

The Strangest Secret

Earl Nightingale here gives a re-make of his famous audio recording. There are two earlier parts but I think this captures its essence.

Comments

Not sure what happened, but for some reason all the commenting capability got turned off. I manually opened it up for the last two posts, but any WordPress scholars know what happened?

Daily Show Explains the Libyan No-Fly Zone

This is great. (HT2 LRC) The Daily Show – Odyssey Dawn – Unconstitutional WarTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook

Two Questions on Japan

This Bloomberg story says the G7 countries’ central banks intervened to weaken Japan’s currency. But what exactly did they do? If the BOJ wants to make the yen fall against the dollar, euro, etc., why doesn’t the BOJ just print more yen and buy more dollars, euros, etc.? I don’t understand what the other G7 […]

I’m No David R. Henderson

I was reading a blog post by David R. Henderson (btw I use his middle initial to distinguish him from a British, free-market economist named David Henderson) where he said this: About 40 to 60 percent of the economists around my campus–the Naval Postgraduate School–get together for a brown-bag lunch around a table once a […]

Excel Bask

OK computer nerds, I have a stumper for you. I have a huge data set that I need to consolidate. It is like this: 1/2010==Bill Smith==Alpha==Red 1/2010==Bill Smith==Beta==Blue 1/2010==Joe Blow==Alpha==Red 1/2010==Mary Stuart==Gamma==Red 2/2010==Bill Smith==Beta==Blue 2/2010==Mary Stuart==Alpha==Red 2/2010==Mary Stuart==Beta==Blue 2/2010==Mary Stuart==Gamma==Red 2/2010==Mary Stuart==Gamma==Blue 2/2010==Mary Stuart==Gamma==Green … So the deal is, on any particular date, any of […]