Doug Jones Scores Upset in Alabama Senate Race
Some initial comments on the Doug Jones win in Alabama.
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Sandy Hook Anniversary: Time for Insurance So Gun Owners Bear the True Cost of Gun Ownership
Time to make gun owners pay for the full cost of their hobby.
Read more...Links 12/12/17
Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eleven: Annual Uber Losses Now Approaching $5 Billion
Uber’s ever-widening losses confirms Hubert Horan’s thesis that Uber has no credible path to profit absent a radical downsizing.
Read more...Don Quijones: A New Stealth Attack in EU’s “War on Cash”
The definition of cash widens.
Read more...The DSGE Model Quarrel (Again)
Economists duke it out over a new defense of discredited but still widely used DSGE models.
Read more...David Davis Points Out Brexit “Breakthrough” Isn’t Binding as Draft European Council Statement Tightens the Screws
More discussion of the overhyped Brexit “breakthrough” of last Friday.
Read more...How Hayek’s Evolutionary Theory Disproves His Politics
How critics of Hayek, like those of Marx, fixate on his politics and ignore his important economic insights.
Read more...Links 12/9/17
Stop Talking Affordable Water and Start Talking Poverty
By David Zetland, who worked on water policy for 10+ years and is an assistant professor of economics at Leiden University College in the Netherlands. Originally published at Aquanomics Circle of Blue published this long, aggravating article of the efforts of activists, water managers and (far too many consultants) to “find a compromise” on the […]
Read more...DNC’s Unity Commission Further Dividing the Party
It should come as no surprise that “unity” in the Democratic Party means purging dissidents.
Read more...Fast-Fashion’s Environmentally Destructive Habits
Fast fashion is cheap for bad reasons.
Read more...Links 12/8/17
Brexit “Breakthrough”: Headfake or May Trying to Engineer Further Capitulation to EU?
The UK has managed show “sufficient progress” so as to be allowed to go to the\ next phase of Brexit talks. But what does that really mean?
Read more...MIT Professor Angrist Publishes Obviously Misleading Analysis of Uber Driver Economics….With Uber Chief Economist as Co-Author
More Uber boosterism masquerading as analysis.
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