Saturday, April 28, 2012

Credentialed Debtors Prison – Again

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Apparently I didn’t get a memo about why we’re suddenly supposed to care about student loans and the interest rates thereon.  In st...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Economics of Chocolate Custard

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OR: Why "Pay It Forward" is holding us back Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured. Galile...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Three Audacities + One Assumption = Status Quo

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It’s a shame that each one of you didn’t sit through Professor Treloar’s statistics classes with me at Ball State University. Well, come to...
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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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The JOBS (SWINDLE) Act Revisited Obviously people who have forgotten that fallaces sunt rerum species et hominum spes fallunt (Appearances a...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

One Trillion is Not Enough

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This is April Fool’s Day or, as my Iranian friends remind me, the Zoroastrian-inspired Sizdah Bedar (the day that celebrates that evil canno...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Life Arbitrage

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Having returned from Dubai at the end of this week, I had intended to write a post about the decade of my experience there and the observati...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Don’t Call the Plumber for a Liver Transplant

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Over the past several months I have been intrigued by the number of people who are certain that the economy’s getting better because compani...
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