Mend it, don’t end it.
In the beginning, debate in both houses of Congress was unlimited. Eventually, the growing House created limits on debate, but the smaller Senate still allows unlimited debate on most issues, subject to a vote of cloture, which today requires three fifths of sitting senators.
Over the years, senators have used…
Let me first establish my bona fides. Here’s an excerpt from an article I posted on financial site Seeking Alpha more than ten years ago:
The time has come to ban all naked short-side derivatives. The only way to take a net short position on an asset should be traditional…
Quantity has a quality all its own.
Fifty years ago, internet fraud wasn’t a thing. But if someone told you in 1980 that you should not expose your personal data on line, would you cite the lack of data breaches at that time as a reason not to worry? What we all do changes what we can…
A little counterfeit never hurt anybody
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is getting a lot of attention these days. Proponents of MMT tend to be politically liberal, and many use MMT to explain why their schemes for massive government spending won’t bankrupt the country. Of course, those schemes may be bad ideas on their own merits regardless…
Inflation is …
Inflation is one of the most misunderstood concepts in finance, perhaps because the term is often used imprecisely. …
A Reductionist Fantasy.
Scarcity
Economics
Bargaining power
Game theory
Morality
Politics (aka law)
War
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In the Beginning, God created abundance. Then he created woman, and found out that horny…
Why (Almost) Everyone Fears Trans People
For some time now, inquiries into racial differences of the sort for which Herrnstein and Murray’s The Bell Curve is best known — but which it mostly isn’t about — have been verboten. Usually, people find methodological flaws in the work. After all, truth is truth, so it’s easier to…
The test of an electoral system is whether it can credibly be lied about.
God is in the details — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and others.
The secret ballot is democracy’s firewall. Mail-in voting is the fuel on which the Big Lie fire burns. To put out the fire, we must take away the fuel.
Listen to the tellers of the Big Lie…
Because it’s not a vaccine mandate
Once again, those of weak mind and bad faith are misreading a rule.
The White House has directed OSHA to issue an “Emergency Temporary Standard” to protect employees from acquiring COVID-19 at the workplace. Under the standard, employers with at least 100 employees will be required to make it less…
Read your Bible folks; forty years in the desert…
There are only two reasons for the US to be in Afghanistan — national security and national prosperity. …
