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Giraffe Thoughts ...: 10/31/10 - 11/7/10
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Observations from a modestly elevated perspective on economics, global politics, finance and a few other issues, delivered as quick commentaries (prefaced with"AOK") on selected items posted elsewhere by those wiser, or at least more diligent, than myself. Friday, November 5, 2010. Employment cycle chart for post-war recessions. 05 Nov 2010 10:41 am. Ryan Avent is cheered. By the October employment report:. Krugman is still dour. At this rate we’ll return to full employment around 2030 or so.". This week...
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Retirement Blues: GoT Season Premier
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This should be the best time of life, but . . . (instead, we are become flaming squid huggers. Look: I am eager to learn stuff I don't know- which requires actively courting and posting smart disagreement. But as you will understand, I don't like to post things that mischaracterize and are aimed to mislead. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Yesterday afternoon I watched the Season 5 Premier of Game of Thrones. Season 1, as I recall it, was remarkably true to the book. But the journey's the thing, isn't it?
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Retirement Blues: Who Am I in My Own PoV? Thoughts on Theon Greyjoy
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This should be the best time of life, but . . . (instead, we are become flaming squid huggers. Look: I am eager to learn stuff I don't know- which requires actively courting and posting smart disagreement. But as you will understand, I don't like to post things that mischaracterize and are aimed to mislead. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Who Am I in My Own PoV? Thoughts on Theon Greyjoy. Warning - spoilers for ADwD. One thing that struck me on a reread of ADwD was how Theon is presented in his own PoV chapte...
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This blog has moved: True Conservative Has Moved!
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This blog has moved. Apr 06, 2009. True Conservative Has Moved! For a whole host of reasons- mostly but not exclusively having to do with TypePads lameness (could we just please have carriage returns in comments, at least? Ive decided to move this blog elsewhere. That move is also an opportunity to change to a new name (drum roll, please.). I hope you enjoy it, and hope youre moved to subscribe over there as well. (All the old posts are copied over there, and theres a much better search engine if you...
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This blog has moved
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This blog has moved. Apr 06, 2009. True Conservative Has Moved! For a whole host of reasons- mostly but not exclusively having to do with TypePads lameness (could we just please have carriage returns in comments, at least? Ive decided to move this blog elsewhere. That move is also an opportunity to change to a new name (drum roll, please.). I hope you enjoy it, and hope youre moved to subscribe over there as well. (All the old posts are copied over there, and theres a much better search engine if you...
shewingthefly.com
Comments policy | Shewing the fly
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one tends to blog. As I’m getting more readers now, I feel the need write one of these in the unlikely but possible event I post something highly controversial and get more comments. And this will happen if people write good comments that give me something to think about and write about. With that in mind, here are some maxims I’d like you to follow. If I am wrong, I want the strongest possible reasons presented as to why. Give me something to read. If you know what.
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Yet more on the UK | Shewing the fly
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one tends to blog. Yet more on the UK. Yet more on the UK. April 28, 2012. Steve Waldman (of the indispensable Interfluidity. My plea for an explanation of the UK’s economic woes, offering a ‘Post-Keynesian’ description of the crisis. I highly recommend you go and read the whole thing before reading the rest of this post. Now, it is true that debt levels are much higher here, but (at least according to the recent ‘Debt and Deleveraging’. April 28, 2012 at 9:39 pm. Govern...
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Is it the financial sector? | Shewing the fly
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one tends to blog. Is it the financial sector? Is it the financial sector? April 29, 2012. A commenter, ‘david’, says. If you want to contend that there was a real shock, identifying one is not difficult: the economy of the City is heavily involved in finance. At a regional and industry level (I used the ‘workplace-based’ figures):. Now, Andrew Haldane thinks measuring GVA in the financial sector is problematic. There are lots of things one could say here. Constructi...
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Philosophy for the masses | Shewing the fly
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one tends to blog. Archive for the ‘Philosophy for the masses’ Category. A puzzle about intuition. December 29, 2011. Suppose you have an intuition, ‘P’*. Should you believe P? Should you believe not-P? For some propositions (e.g. the moral kind) there may not be much to go on other than our intuitions. So for the moral intuitionists. In particular, here’s a little puzzle for you. There even may be classes of intuitions that are necessarily reliable on the level of the m...
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Culture | Shewing the fly
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one tends to blog. Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category. Blogging ‘The Killing’ II – Episodes 3&4. November 27, 2011. OK, I’m willing to call it – it’s not as good as season 1… but it’s still probably the best thing on TV. Spoilers (and some tough love) below the fold. Blogging ‘The Killing’ II – an introduction (spoiler-free), and episodes 1-2. November 19, 2011. All spoilers have been put below the fold]. 8216; Naturally, I completely disagree that. Anyway, before I get ...
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