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
- Hadley Hacked on Nov 20, 2009 in Science
Hackers released 61 Mb of information from a government funded U.K. unit that tends to support anthropogenic global warming. So far, it looks somewhat incriminating: anecdotes of data manipulation, destruction of e-mails, and subversion of the peer r...
- Exceptionally Undiplomatic Obama on Nov 19, 2009 in Current Affairs
WTF. Obama said this in response to critics who grouse about whether it is offensive that KSM will be entitled to the rights of Americans when tried in America: I don't think it will be offensive at all when he's...
- Professors Ethics on Nov 19, 2009 in Academics
I have a student that blew off buying a required text with a set of attached homeworks, and is having second thoughts now that they are piling up zeroes. If they ask how many more assignments will be drawn from...
- Analogy: The Frontier Is Gone for Big Government on Nov 19, 2009 in Current Affairs
Peggy Noonan : … People actually have a sense of the history they're living in and the history their country has recently lived through. They understand the moment we're in. In the days of the New Deal, in the 1930s,...
- Spiral Jetty Conservation on Nov 19, 2009 in The Arts Utah
Spiral Jetty is an environmental artwork on the remote northwest side of Great Salt Lake. From the air it looks like this. Not many people see it from the air though, and I’ve never seen it in anything but photos....
- A Guy Who Didnt Shower Much on Nov 18, 2009 in History
To lighten things up with a cheap laugh when lecturing macroeconomics students about growth, I note that the people who make technological innovations aren’t much like business students – since they don’t shower much. Now I’ve got evidence fr...
- Big Pharma Quote (Big Insura Too!) on Nov 17, 2009 in Quotes
Peggy Noonan: I talked this week with a guy from Big Pharma, which we used to call "the drug companies" until we decided that didn't sound menacing enough. Of course, this is a key to politics: painting others as menacing....
