Tag: economics

• There ain't no such thing as a free option (07 Jun 2019)
  
• How I learned to stop worrying and love quantitative tightening (04 Feb 2019)
  
• Losing the meta-game (19 May 2018)
  
• UBI, health care, welfare economics and asshole economics (23 Jul 2017)
  
• Pokémon economics, secular stagnation, and cognitive dissonance (31 Jul 2016)
  
• Is China’s sale of Treasurys ‘quantitative tightening’ for the US? (10 Oct 2015)
  
• Are food stamps Walmart subsidies, and should the minimum wage be $15? (26 Apr 2015)
  
• Why Are There Recessions And Business Cycles? (12 Apr 2015)
  
• ‘Net neutrality’, Netflix vs. the cable monopoly, and the Internet profits tax (26 Feb 2015)
  
• Andreessen v. Summers: Can you have robots, hoverboards, and secular stagnation? (20 Feb 2015)
  
• A Greece reading list (Or why the euro is doomed) (01 Feb 2015)
  
• UberFail - a few thoughts on Uber (04 Jan 2015)
  
• A Piketty counterargument: Is r > g a reasonable assumption? (21 Oct 2014)
  
• Social capital, or the lost art of not taking a dump in the community pool (04 Nov 2012)
  
• The Paul Ryan plan (12 Aug 2012)
  
• A Target2 Thought Experiment (05 Jun 2012)
  
• Domino on the edge (16 May 2012)
  
• The Money Illusion (03 Mar 2012)
  
• Lucky Duckies and Red Herrings (11 Aug 2011)
  
• Fannie, Freddie, And The Causes Of The Financial Crisis (25 Jul 2011)
  
• What is money? (15 May 2011)
  
• Questions for Gentle Ben (27 Apr 2011)
  
• Can the US default on its debt? (19 Apr 2011)
  
• From the unthinkable to the inevitable: why the Euro is doomed (18 Apr 2011)
  
• ‘Bretton Woods 2’ (16 Apr 2011)
  
• Why I am not a true gold bug, and the gold standard isn’t coming back (10 Apr 2011)
  
• Why did the Soviet Union collapse? (03 Apr 2011)