Why Young People Aren’t Having Babies—Malthus, Revisited
January 29, 2026 – JD Vance and his white-supremacist buddies are all aflutter over declining birthrates in the white population. But here’s some news for you JD, it’s not just […]
Tag Archives: Economics
Horseshit, Elon Musk!
January 15, 2026 – As of today, it’s half a month since I was last on Facebook—half of my digital-dry January. It’s mostly been a good thing. I may continue […]
If a Monkey Hoarded More Bananas . . .
2022-01-03 – There’s a meme going around: “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to […]
Let’s Put Homeless People Into Containers!
2015-04-16 – I’ve been seeing a lot lately about tiny housing. It’s mostly promoted as efficient and good for the ecology (see Small House Society or Tumbleweed Tiny House Company […]
Don’t Forget About Sunk Costs
2014-25-2014 – Okay. It was a bad year. Lost job. Illness and death in the family. Last kid is off to college and we’re alone. Friend dies. New job is […]
Couldn’t We Just Pretend We Never Heard of Iraq?
2014-06-24 – It’s hard not to consider sunk costs. Huh? In doing the cost-benefit analysis of starting (or continuing) any venture, we’re told not to consider “sunk costs.” That is, […]
Let’s Eliminate Entitlements (Not!)
2014-05-29 – We hear a lot about Republican attacks on entitlements. What is it about entitlements that have them so in a huff. An entitlement is wealth that you own. […]
Sacred Economics
2013-05-20 – I just read a book called Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein. It was recommended to me by my friend […]
CEOs and Fire-fighters
2012-08-11 – What do CEOs and firefighters have in common? If you said they both take big risks, you’d be wrong. Firefighters do take big risks, but CEOs don’t, for […]
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