voluntaryXchange
Blog URL http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/
Located Cedar City, Utah USA
Tags economics, finance, software, utah, dinosaur, polygamist, new orleans, buffalo, progressive
An academic economist and consultant writes about what interests him: economics, finance, current affairs, technology, software, dinosaurs, polygamists, innumeracy, anthropogenic global warming, New Orleans, Buffalo, Utah, progressive music, and so on.
Latest Blog Posts
- Jared Diamond On Where the Japanese Came From on Nov 25, 2009 in History
Interesting throughout, and always too the point. In short, the Japanese are Koreans who emmigrated before the Korean language solidified. Via Megan McArdle. Technorati Tags: japanese,korean,ainu...
- What Climategate Is About An Analogy on Nov 25, 2009 in Current Affairs Science
Many are missing the point: it isn’t about a conspiracy or about nastiness. It’s about having your positions tested. Let me offer an analogy to help explain what the CRU hack has revealed about the A list of pro-AGW scientists....
- My Macro Forecast on Nov 24, 2009 in Economics
I was asked for a medium-term outlook. So, what do I think? Recessions end. This one did, just like all the others. Expansions didn't used to start out sluggishly; I'm interested that we've had two in a row that did,...
- Seinfelds 10th Anniversary Show on Nov 23, 2009 in Television
The season finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm that premiered last night centers around the making of a faux Seinfeld anniversary show. Except that the extra-long episode basically contains a full episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm interspersed with essentia...
- It Depends on the Meaning of Is Is Anthropogenic Global Warming Edition on Nov 21, 2009 in Current Affairs Science
Let me summarize: The good guys produced evidence of anthropogenic global warming. The bad guys pointed out that it looked like the good guys cheated. The good guys denied doing what the bad guys said they were doing, truthfully, because...
- The News that Isnt Fit to Cover on Nov 21, 2009 in Legacy Media Science Weblogs
Still not much in the non-Fox-or-Drudge media about the data breach at CRU. Go ahead, try your favorite keywords – like hack and CRU – on the CNN site and see what you get. Nada at 5 PM MDT on...
- Hadleys Rules on Nov 21, 2009 in Current Affairs Science
Why did a government funded scientific agency have a marketing plan for how to sell anthropogenic global warming to the public on its servers? Here’s an excerpt: The language we use to describe the challenge of climate change is huge,...
