My Blog List
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Global Warming and Climate Change
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It is widely reported that Kurt Vonnegut gave a commencement address at MIT
in 1997 in which he advised the graduating class to “wear sunscreen.” But
in fa...
16 hours ago
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How to Believe in Free Speech
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(June 12, 2018 02:56 PM, by Bryan Caplan) Almost all libertarians earnestly
say, "I believe in free speech." Normally, though, this goes way beyond
the ri...
7 years ago
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To the Streets: Occupy Wall Street moves to Main Streets
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The "Occupy Wall Street" movement is moving to Main Streets across the
globe. It's about time. But I fear that the movement will be captured by
the far lef...
13 years ago
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Wimbledon Wisdom
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I recently ran across a graduation speech by the tennis great Roger
Federer. I especially appreciated this passage:
In the 1,526 singles matches I played...
1 week ago
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गरीबी हटाओ की नहीं, अमीरी लाओ की जरूरत
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दैनिक भास्कर | 25 जुलाई 2019
कुछ दिनों पहले रविवार की रात एक टीवी शो
में एंकर ने प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी के 5
लाख करोड़ डॉलर के जीडीपी के लक्ष्य का तिरस्...
5 years ago
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The Innovation Economy T-Shirt
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If you're reading this, you are likely a member of the Innovation Economy
here in New England: someone who *makes things happen.*
So this t-shirt is for y...
15 years ago
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To Bitcoin or not to Bitcoin? A Corporate Cash Question!
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In this post, I will bring together two disparate and very different
topics that I have written about in the past. The first is the role that *cash
h...
1 week ago
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ca va?
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Many years ago before the World War II, a blitzkrieg of German soldiers
would come right up to the border in their Panzer tanks and turn their guns
at a po...
13 years ago
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China Skepticism
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(I wrote this after my visit to Shanghai and Beijing in May ’10, as part of
my MBA program at Duke. I originally circulated it around with friends and
othe...
13 years ago
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New Site @ www.tvhe.co.nz
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Dear avid TVHE readers, We’ve finally set up our own hosting and have a new
site at www.tvhe.co.nz, if you could be so kind as to set your
links/bookmarks...
16 years ago
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Cautionary Tales – Fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club (Update)
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Why did audience members fail to flee a deadly fire… despite being told to
escape? Flames are spreading through a Cincinnati hotel. The staff know it,
the ...
1 day ago
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Inside Money In SERE
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Like I wrote in the last post, I don't normally post on this blog at all.
But I have a story from the spouse of an undergraduate student that I'd
like to b...
9 years ago
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My Fav books
- The world is Flat by Thomas Friedman
- Principles of Economics by Ben Bernanke
- Micro Economics by Michael Parkin
- Principles of Economics by Mankiw
- Arthur Hailey-Money Changers, Hotel, Wheels, Final Diagnosis
- Barack Obama , The New face of American Politics
- Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
- Freakonomics
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