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Intelligent trade policy

…that they all yearn for the antebellum plantation when profits and efficiency were high and labor was appropriately chained. Has capital co-opted an entire discipline? (Dan here…slight editing for readability)…

Angry Bear blog at Jackson Hole symposium

by Dan Crawford (Rdan) (H/t Ken Houghton) Eric Leeper’s paper Monetary Science, Fiscal Alchemy∗, also found ungated in the Financial Times: Jackson Hole papers finally available, mentioned Angry Bear in…

green links

…Green links will be gone. I am told they are very lucrative…any feedback while they are current? Update 2: Ignore the pop up. It will go away. My apologies. Dan

Cui Bono? The Kindle

…sold at discounted but still higher prices. Readers have been paying more for James Patterson and Dan Brown, not waiting for the cheaper mass market paperbacks. Consumers trade money for…

Template woes

…template. Even feed links were changed about in the transfer. Since the posts are intact, my first priority is fixing comments with js kit (and blogger comments for new). Dan

Marginal benefits

…publishing company that puts out the latest Dan Brown book, someone at the company is allowing that company to sell a heck of a lot of books. But just about…