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Economics of PhD training

My wife and I did our PhDs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It took us five years after we finished undergrad. “Typically, the philosophy department at…

Tax season

…ratio correlated with a high democracy score. So the data seem to support Holmes. *Libertarianism is the apotheosis of solipsism, the political philosophy of middle school boys and arrested development…

Trump the Chump

…known that attacking Iran was a mistake. Trump should have used economic pressure to get Iran to behave. Unfortunately Trump was too stupid to realize that Obama’s approach was best. Third:…

The Gold Standard in One Easy Quote

Warren Buffett: [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around…