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No laboring in economics

…profession would just think about how the majority (like super duper majority) acquire their money, then maybe they would have not passed on this currently wide open, you can own…

Soc Sec XXXIV: Open Thread/Assignment Desk

…been mulling some ideas nothing super compelling comes to mind. So here is your shot to get the discussion going or perhaps suggest ways I could get the discussion going….

Milton Friedman Meets Robert Klitgaard

…that you don’t have to choose between him or her and the son of a super rich alumnus who will give tons of money if you admit his son but…

Another whittling the beak

…to sell anything from counterinsurgency warfare, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to new super weapons to refight the Battle of Kursk. Army brand think tanks devised “air mobile” doctrine first tried…

Another challenge issued by ilsm

super weapons. Why does the US have for profit arsenals which are not effective? Short answer is the stuff is as related to security as wooden beaks strapped to the…

Reader Denis offers this post on poverty

…for a 2008 family health policy and we get a plausible poverty line (as opposed to the implausible federal line computed at 3X the price of a super cheap diet)…

Crunch time ahead?

…decades in the name of free markets and financial innovation. Your predecessors on the Senate Banking Committee, in the celebrated Pecora Hearings of 1933 and 1934, laid the groundwork for…

Schumer v Roberts

…“Casablanca,” and you respond by saying, “Lots of people like ‘Casablanca.’” (LAUGHTER) I don’t have any strong opinions about Roberts, and I don’t know if he’s conservative or Ultra Super-Duper…