Author Archives: Jack

A dozen things from Richard Thaler: lots of interesting thoughts about how the academic collides with the market, EMH is a theme. Children can tell abstract expressionist art from work by… Read more »

I have for you two posts about the Fed “running out of ammo”. If you don’t think that idea is moronic, I can’t save you. Ben Carlson Scott Sumner I… Read more »

The beginning of what is hopefully a demand for rigor when politicians invoke economics. Interesting post with lots of excellent visuals from Bob Seawright on the value of financial advisors…. Read more »

No links from last week because I was moving. Back with a vengeance. HBR piece on why business transformations fail. (02/21/16 edit: updated link to article) Even the people who… Read more »

Corporate inversions feel like one of those things that will go away sooner rather than later. Two good speeches on behavioral economics. The European champion of Go was beaten by… Read more »

Back with a new edition of the best links on the interwebs. With apologies to Scott Sumner, I’ll be putting a moratorium on links to posts of his through at… Read more »

Scott Sumner on Rents – I agree with Sumner on rent-seeking being abhorrent. I often think of this article from 2014 whenever Elon Musk is brought up (usually extremely favorably; someone… Read more »

How to properly interpret personal exemption phaseouts and Pease limitations — a 1% surtax. Really interesting statistics post about why some small countries are better than large countries at ‘X’… Read more »