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Global Review: Monetary Expansion and the 1%

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Friday, April 20, 2012. Monetary Expansion and the 1%. One-percenter Mark Spitznagel, a California hedge-fund founder, shines an Austrian spotlight on a major source of inequality. A major issue in this year's presidential campaign is the growing disparity between rich and poor, the 1% versus the 99%. The source is not runaway entrepreneurial capitalism, which rewards those who best serve the consumer in product and price. (Would we really want it any other way? If we, as society, want to shift consumpti...

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Global Review: July 2011

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011. As I reacquaint myself - and acquaint my wife - with Boston, we often question where exactly something is. Where's Dorchester. I was born there, and I think of it as a mixed-race neighborhood near the bay and the Neponset, served by the Red Line. Dorchester's centers are Fields Corner and Codman Square. As a young child, I lived at two of its extremes: Edward Everett Square and Lower Mills. And what's the boundary between the South End and the Back Bay? And a great map. Lim Miller...

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Global Review: Election 2012: Not Very Important

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Monday, May 7, 2012. Election 2012: Not Very Important. You have heard it before: this year's election is "THE MOST IMPORTANT. OF {OUR LIFETIME, THE CENTURY, AMERICAN HISTORY, OUR ERA}! Not only is this overblown and immodest, as the Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf points out. But the opposite is most likely true. Does the 2012 election offer voters the opportunity to elect a major historical figure, someone who will introduce a new element. Or ideology to the presidency? Is a great deal of policy change.

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Global Review: Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee?

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee? The kerfuffle over Professor Elizabeth Warren's heritage. Is best understood through the prism of governmental demands for diversity. While the biggest issue for her campaign (and for voters) is whether or not she lied. About past claims, outsiders to academia are, I think, mistaking the margin at which Warren claiming minority status would have distorted the system in her favor. Why do I know something about this? Discrimination against them in academia)...

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Global Review: Major Choices

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012. One of the biggest advances in economics in the last decade came courtesy of newly available data on college majors. A spate of papers has examined this data using sophisticated econometrics. In brief: college major matters more than we thought it did. The WSJ has a handy table summarizing the data. And you won't be surprised to see which major is on top. And this would be one of the biggest advances in economics apologetics as well, right? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Global Review: April 2012

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Friday, April 20, 2012. Monetary Expansion and the 1%. One-percenter Mark Spitznagel, a California hedge-fund founder, shines an Austrian spotlight on a major source of inequality. A major issue in this year's presidential campaign is the growing disparity between rich and poor, the 1% versus the 99%. The source is not runaway entrepreneurial capitalism, which rewards those who best serve the consumer in product and price. (Would we really want it any other way? If we, as society, want to shift consumpti...

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Global Review: June 2011

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Letter to the Editor. I submitted the following to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, concerning a series of incidents in my old neighborhood. The Rochester Police Department is recklessly endangering its members' safety. After the unfortunate arrest of Emily Good. In addition, Good was the victim of a Thursday break-in. Officer Masic may be a fool or he may be scared sh*tless of working the Ward, but he's no racist. Monday, June 27, 2011. Mr Gore's leadership, the apotheosis...

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Global Review: Public Goods

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Saturday, May 19, 2012. I was sipping my coffee down at Brooks Landing today in the halcyon sunshine, watching the other users of the public space: a guy covered in tattoos fed the ducks, several out-of-shape joggers huffled past, a college student and her mom nibbled at their breakfasts. From casual observation in many settings, it appears to me that public goods are enjoyed more by the affluent than by the poor. Or a public festival? It might be the case that the poor have a distaste for seeing (or bei...

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Global Review: November 2011

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011. So the Red Sox hired Bobby Valentine as their new manager. I guess they're working on the theory that there's no such thing as bad publicity? I know Valentine comes with a great knowledge of the game, and - according to his friend Tim Kurkjian. A whole lot more:. Director of Public Health? Valentine is all of these things. How? Where does he find the time? He told me 25 years ago, "Sleep is overrated,' and it must be, because I don't know when he sleeps. To be sure, urban pl...