Ranting and berating at the National Review
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Here’s Jim Geraghty of the National Review: We’ve reached the point where Biden administration officials, Democrats, and pro-Biden columnists are tearing their...
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Comments, observations, snide remarks
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 1. Be careful what you wish for (from Matt Yglesias’s Substack): While several states have banned abortion, a bunch of other states...
There’s no such thing as public opinion; example #2178
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Each day I get more and more depressed about the intellectual climate in America (and the rest of the world.) How often...
Films of 2024:Q1
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn I read another Gene Wolfe trilogy, this one about ancient Greece. Not as good as the three “Sun” series, but still enjoyable....
The Fed is clumsy
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn The Fed should not be targeting interest rates. But if it insists on doing so, then the most efficient regime would adjust...
A question for critics of democracy
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn There’s a certain type of person that doesn’t trust democracy. On the left, there’s a perception that difficult issues must be left...
What do you mean by “you”?
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn People ask me: “What do you think about X?” It might be the path of interest rates or stock prices or the...
Price indices: constant utility or constant quantity?
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Josh Hendrickson argues that an ideal price index should include asset prices. I am not going to address that issue, as I’m...
Treasure for pleasure
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn [Readers trying to avoid sugar for health reasons may want to skip this post.] My basement recently flooded, and I was forced...
Break with Trump?
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn I saw the following headline in the National Review: What It Took for Republicans to Break with Trump The article discussed the...