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Commenting on a post of mine, co-blogger Scott Sumner offered a striking observation: “I feel sort of like Rip Van…
Elon recently re-opened the perennial debate about whether Social Security is a ponzi scheme. Here’s my, lightly edited post from…
Of relevance to some recent debates: We have four main findings: First, measuring “economic income” as currently-taxed income plus new…
IMO this is one of the more compelling “disaster” scenarios — not that AI goes haywire because it hates humanity,…
Jordan Schneider has a very informative interview with Edward Fishman, who is an expert on the use of sanctions. Until…
In the previous posts of this series, I have simply been describing the ideas R. R. Reno lays out in…
1. Perplexity, Deutsche Telekom, and an AI smartphone. 2. GPT 4.5 and Bishop Berkeley! 3. Stocks vs. flows, blah blah…
As the US government’s enervation and economically illiterate interventionism fuel trade wars and dreams of autarky, it is worth looking…
Robert Higgs coined the term regime uncertainty to illustrate the challenge faced by business under Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, when…
From a new piece by Daniel Schwarcz, et.al., here is part of the abstract: This article examines two emerging AI…