Author : TheMoneyIllusion

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tyler Cowen directed me to a Greg Mankiw essay on inflation: And as a textbook author, I sometimes get the suggestion that...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn There are times when it’s cruel to be kind. At some point in the not too distant future, the quality of my...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 1. Does Elon wish to kill me? All legal American residents should be allowed to vote. 2. This is our relatively sane...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Happy 4th of July to everyone—especially to my stepfather, who earned a Purple Heart in Okinawa. Consider the following two definitions of...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn I did a trip to Tyler Cowen’s #1 travel destination (southern Utah plus the North Rim.) In my view, the best travel...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 1. The Chinese respond to the debate (from a ChinaTalk post with the subtitle “If we don’t laugh, we’ll cry”): From Guangdong:...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 1. One state has avoided MAGA madness: A pair of moderate Utah Republicans won primary elections Tuesday for U.S. Senate and governor...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 1. In a previous post I showed that the recent NYT article on the lab leak hypothesis was based on an ignorance...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn You’ve probably seen that amusing British comedy bit when one German officers asks another, “Are we the baddies?” I’m pretty sure that...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 1. I frequently argue that the money/happiness correlations are misleading, that it is happiness causing prosperity. An expert on happiness now suggests...