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If I were Trump's economic advisor, my advice to him would be that his legacy hinges on fulfilling the most basic spirit of his campaign promises, which is to improve the quality of the average, ...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2016/12/if-i-had-trumps-ear.html

In his words  (except for a few typos I corrected) -- > Let us cut to the chase.  > Think back to the day when you first discovered that you were a meat > robot withou...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2016/08/hearken-unto-john-c-wright.html

Apropos of the last post -- a very uncomfortable example: > A federal grand jury has indicted seven Latino gang members in > connection with a 2014 firebombing attack at the�...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2016/08/borders-uncomfortable-example.html

I'm probably not the best person to 'do' philosophy, as I don't think I function in a particularly logically-driven fashion.  When I read most modern stuff (and, frankly, when I read most anythi...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2016/08/metaphysical-bumblings-3-markets.html

From the comments section of an SSC post, Scott Alexander answers why he thinks there might be some important truth to be uncovered in psychedelics research -- > When people are on psyched...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2016/08/metaphysical-bumblings-2.html

From somewhere on the interwebz -- > Is beauty subjective? People have strong feelings in both > directions. A stylized representation of possible opinions about the > nature...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2016/08/metaphysical-bumblings-1.html

For those who have been living under a rock the last week or so, the Swiss franc went off like a rocket when the SNB (the Swiss National Bank, Switzerland's central bank) decided to end a currenc...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2015/01/monetary-inanity-part-infinity.html

I'm sorry.  I'm supposed to be angry and dismal, because angry and dismal is smart, or at least that's the current received wisdom, and not wanting to look smart is practically a cardinal sin th...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2014/06/why-piketty-is-wrong-and-western.html

My sister forwarded me this video by Bill Whittle -- It is funny, and has a kernel of truth to it (I did these sorts of things growing up, too, and could do them still if the urge ever really g...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2014/02/texas-explained.html

Holy moly, this lady is the mother of all smoking guns. If half of what she says is true - and from what I heard from her on the radio, she gives every indication of being legit - the mother of a...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2013/05/karen-hudes.html

...is not actually a substitute for food. Or sleep.  All rumors to the contrary. It looks like it should work, but it doesn't.  And I never thought I'd become one of 'these people.'

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2013/05/coffee.html

It is incredible how difficult it is to raise kids. I have slogged through 4+ years of blogging, through living at 4-5 different addresses, through two different jobs -- one of them (my current...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2013/05/kids.html

According to a report issued by a House committee bssed on data provided by a consortium of insurers, healthcare costs will increase dramatically under Obamacare -- by 100 to 400%: > Internal�...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2013/05/healthcare-if-any.html

Dear Wealthy Californians -- On behalf of those people of Texas who still retain a modicum of common sense, by which I mean all of us except for Governor Perry, I would like to rescind the off...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2013/02/open-letter-from-texas.html

I made a different version of my standard egg salad today and since I'm such a creative, inspired person I decided to call it Tex-Mex Egg Salad. I threw in some random stuff that I happened ...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2013/02/tex-mex-egg-salad.html

Gene Callahan has suggested (as has Fran ) that any debate over proper gun policy would best be done rationally and without reference to emotional arguments. I concur, and though I am very much...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2013/01/towards-rational-gun-policy.html

Every now and then, a technology comes along and changes things so radically that it disrupts whole economic structures and ways of life.  No doubt, just about anyone can name quite a few of the...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/12/technologies-that-will-change-everything.html

A little bit back, Gene Callahan favorably quoted economist Hyman Minsky in support of the argument that the banking/finance industry benefits from market instability ... -- > WHY INVESTMENT�...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/11/banking-as-rent-seeking-enterprise.html

From George MacDonald's Robert Falconer: > My reader must understand that Andrew had never been a man of > resolution. He had been willful and headstrong; and these qualit...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/11/great-and-occasionally-mediocre-minds.html

As I have been enduring these early not-so-glamorous-or-rewarding experiences of landlording -- which I think come to anyone who tries to do this and have more or less totally consumed all my fre...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-taxing-epiphany-unfortunate-defense.html

Well, I've been hard at it lately, and don't have much to talk about. So, I suppose I'll talk about what I've been hard at. I never wanted to be a real estate guy, but sometimes these things ju...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/09/i-slumlord.html

Forget about the 'privatization' of NASA. Check out this idea for ways to make space travel cheaper: The shift to using private enterprise to economize space travel is of course a good idea, bu...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-idea-to-make-space-affordable.html

In the same vein as Fran's post on the limits of charity – with which, by the way, I completely agree – I have recently finished a biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer which leaves me pondering ...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/08/meddlers-muddlers-and-martyrs.html

Man, Economy and State is a very, very long book, an interesting book, and a worthwhile book.  But I think it also suffers from a few very big flaws. The main problem, in my opinion, is that ...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/08/metaphysics-and-murray-rothbard.html

Bill and Susan Barton strode into the fertility center at the appointed time Thursday morning. But their confident outward demeanor belied an anxiety just below the surface. In a moment, one of...

http://3cnb.blogspot.com/2012/08/little-tommy.html