Friday, March 6, 2015

The Golden Age of PR

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I usually check out Jonathan Chait's blog once or twice a week and I usually ignore the "Most Viewed Stories" column to the ri...
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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Cartoon Metalogic

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Bud Grace, creator of the comic strip the Piranha Club, is a former nuclear physicist -- No, really, look it up  -- and every now and then a...

For investors, all money isn't created equal

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In our most recent discussion of driverless cars, I made the following assertion about Google: Google has a lot of reasons to want to be ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Elegant theories and headless clowns -- more bad tech reporting from the New York Times

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The previously mentioned Paul Krugman piece on opera singer Jenny Lind  included a link to this NYT article "adapted from The Price of...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Epidemiology Research

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I am a big fan of Aaron Carroll, who often blogs at the incidental economist .  However, in his latest New York Times column he says : Mos...
Monday, March 2, 2015

Defining away concerns about charter school attrition

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[New information has come in and we may be making some changes to this post.] After what seems like a long time, we are back on the bad ed...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Nimoy tribute on MeTV

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One of these days, I would love to spend some time discussing the many clever ideas of Weigel Broadcasting. (Keep in mind, Carl Reiner has c...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

I was about to slam Krugman for ignoring meaningful counter-examples...

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I generally like Paul Krugman a great deal, partially because I have a high tolerance for quality snark and partially because... well, let...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

Bondholders as Stakeholders

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I agree with Dean Dad that this is a really major development -- the idea that bondholders will directly be able to act as stakeholders in ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Quick Post: Financial Advice

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Just a quick hit today, from Matt Yglesias , discussing whether investment advisors should be regulated to give helpful advice: This of co...

CBS joins the terrestrial superstation ranks

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[There's a Car 54 marathon coming up on Decades. Every episode of William Faulkner's favorite show starting March 3rd. Just wanted ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Skimming the cream -- a history lesson from Charles Pierce

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This could be the starting point for all sorts of interesting discussions, from the role of government sponsored research to the profound a...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Driverless cars may actually be getting closer

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This announcement has me intrigued. Today, Volvo announced a real, on-the-streets test of 100 of its self-driving cars — a first...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Checking in with MovieBob

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I've been working on some video projects lately and putting quite a bit of thought into what makes a video podcast good. This has given ...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

I don't think you want to go with the "handful" defense

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Before we go on, a quick caveat. There is tremendous variation in charter school models and philosophies. That's a big part of the story...
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