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Bring Me the Decrypticizer!
Reading over my notes dump, one thing pops out: I am getting way too cryptic. It’s one thing to use shorthand when I can link to the arguments I’ve made before. But there’s an awful lot here that is...
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The Union of Coal Mine Canaries
Once upon a time, coal miners worked in a dirty, incredibly dangerous environment where the people who ran the coal mining companies weren’t too worried about their working conditions (come to think of...
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Taking Another Break
Although I really want to make blogging a priority, other facets of my life are demanding most of my attention. Once I’ve got them squared away — hopefully in a few months — I’ll be back at it.
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I’m Not As Smart As I Think I Am
It happens like clockwork. About two weeks after I wrote that I was taking a break from blogging, I hit a wall and decided it was time to really stop for a while. Two days later: a new framework popped...
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Racism in the US: Some Useful Links
From a piece by Ta-Neisi Coates about the development of his thinking, some useful links on race in the US: I was grappling with the Civil War. I had some sense of Reconstruction. I had begun to grasp...
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Slavery’s Massive Impact on the US Economy
Just how important was slavery to the US economy? Some stats from a post cited by Coates: by 1860, there were more millionaires (slaveholders all) living in the lower Mississippi Valley than anywhere...
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Too Big to Fail: the $70 Billion/Yr Handout
How much does Too Big to Fail subsidize the big banks? The IMF has put a price tag on it: up to $70 billion a year. And of course, that's nowhere near the true price — the IMF didn't factor into...
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Rethinking: Theory as Pie
Here’s what I’ve been playing with: More on this in upcoming posts.
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Sadomonetarists And the Limits of Swedish Social Democracy
Oy. Sweden, touted by the Washington Post as “the rock star of the recovery”, has been overrun by what Paul Krugman calls the Sadomonetarists who demanded high interest rates even when inflation was...
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Why Swedish Sadomonetarists Don’t Stroke Cats
One more note on Swedish Sadomonetarists. Why, asks Krugman, did the Sadomonetarists insist on high interest rates that would tank the economy? Where does this gut dislike for low [interest] rates come...
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