Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Trump Gets the history of the Panama Canal Wrong. Really Wrong.

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Trump gave a press conference at Mar-a-Lago today. It was... interesting. When asked he refused to rule out the use of military force agains...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Do These People Even Understand How This Stuff Works?

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 From Trump lawyer Sidney Powell at their crazy press conference this week: They can say that  … show of votes from one thing to another, t...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Movie Review: Mr Jones

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I wrote my senior thesis at the Jackson School many years ago on Collectivization, which I have long considered a criminally under-appreciat...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Churchill and Trump

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I had to post an Amazon review regarding this ridiculous book, Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization .  Who knows if it wil...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Throwing Rocks at Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

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I haven't done much posting lately, so here is a review of an idiotic book I had fun making fun of on Amazon . As I have two decades ...
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Incoherency of Trumponomics

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I was flipping through the channels Thursday night during the debate and caught a bit of Donald Trump's counter-rally and noticed this l...
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Saturday, January 02, 2016

The Interrogator

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Available Tuesday from Amazon !
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Sunday, March 22, 2015

The Conservatarian Manifesto

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I just finished reading The Conservatarian Manifesto , by the National Review's Charle Cooke, a short tract on the intersection of the m...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Five Stars

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Trying to self-publish a novel, although fun, can be a quite stressful experience. It is hard putting yourself out their, opening yourself u...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

Seven Bad Ideas

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I was interested in reading Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World  by Jeff Madrick after reading Don...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Arthur Laffer Call Your Office

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It should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the Laffer Curve that France's 75% top tax rate raised barely enough money for an ...
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Sunday, November 09, 2014

Redefining Adam Smith

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I'm a big fan of philosopher and the father of modern economics Adam Smith, I have three copies of his seminal Wealth of Nations, includ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Das Kapital in the Twenty-First Century

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I finally finished Thomas Piketty’s envy economics bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which according to those fine people at ...
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Saturday, July 12, 2014

Hot Off the Presses!

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My first novel, now available on the Amazon Kindle and in paperback .
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Enough With the Soccer Politics

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OK, I wasn't too surprised by Ann Coulter, like her or hate her she pretty much lives to be incendiary, it's her raison d'etre, ...
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Friday, July 04, 2014

Book News

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I've decided to publish my first novel "The Team" on Amazon Kindle, and had this excellent cover commissioned by Brandi Doane ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

A Few Thoughts on Inequality by Age Group

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The subject of economic inequality has raised a lot of interest lately, with Obama making it the centerpiece of his hold-the-senate campaig...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Paul Krugman is an Economics Genius

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Yeah, wonder when he is going to walk back this previous statement . Well, I know about a health care system that has been highly success...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

An Ode to the OED

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I was just a young undergrad in Russian and East European studies at the University of Washington when I first discovered the Oxford English...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Book Review: S, Classical Writers and the Meaning of Literature

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I am a book guy, for lack of a better term. When I bought my new house, the first major project I started on was remodeling the basement, w...