2021–2022
561 posts
2022 411
December 2022
- The Theory of Monetary Policy, Then and Now
- Links to Consider, 12/30
- Two Forms of Political Order
- Proposed Republican Platforms
- Book Discussion January 11
- Links to Consider, 12/27
- Social Learning Strategies
- Links to Consider, 12/25
- Drug Company Profits
- Government does not stay Limited
- Kling on Econtalk
- Discussion on January 9: Class Conflict or Gender Conflict?
- The FBI and Twitter
- Dunbar's Number
- Links to Consider, 12/19
- Choose Your Dogma Carefully
- Links to Consider, 12/17
- Trust and Accountability
- Links to Consider, 12/15
- Links to Consider, 10/14
- Is the AI alignment problem a cybersecurity problem?
- UPDATE: More of My Business Lessons
- From Web 1.0 to Today
- Razib Khan and Garett Jones
- Links to consider, 12/10
- The Main Routine
- Links to Consider, 12/8
- The Loss of Jeffrey Friedman
- AI has trouble recognizing me
- Links to Consider, 12/5
- What About Israel?
- Can Price Discrimination Save Twitter?
- Book discussion on Wednesday
- Links to Consider, 12/2
- Topic for Monday
- FTX vs. Amazon
November 2022
- Austin meet-up
- Image Manipulation and Reputation Management
- Links to Consider 11/29
- Judaism or Marxism?
- Links to Consider, 11/27
- On Feminism
- Links to Consider, 11/25
- I Can Get Annoyed
- Links to Consider, 11/23
- Crypto and other New Faiths
- Links to Consider, 11/21
- The Future of Crypto
- Links to Consider, 11/19
- Economic Models for Twitter
- Links to Consider, 11/18
- Visiting Boston and Austin
- Elite Academia's Cuckoo's Nest
- SBF and the two-way street of deception
- The Government as a Crypto Scammer
- Against Top-Down Macro
- Links from Across the Pond, 11/13
- Is Anti-Intellectualism a Problem?
- Live Meetings on Sundays this week and next
- The Issue of Censorship
- Links to Consider, 11/10
- The Fiscal Inflation Predicament
- Two-Week Top Ten
- Links to Consider, 11/7
- Our Weird Economy
- Links to Consider, 11/5
- Time change Monday night
- The Fed Isn't Dead
- Links to Consider, 11/3
- From Keynes to PSST
- Links to Consider, 11/1
October 2022
- Richard Hanania's Theory of the Culture War
- Links to Consider, 10/30
- Macroeconomics and Bull Hockey
- The Truss Fiasco: Various Takes
- Sunday afternoon for paid subscribers
- Links to consider, 10/27
- Mathematical Models in Economics
- COVID back in the day
- last minute room change
- Links to Consider, 10/24
- Book Discussion October 24
- Cars, Bikes, and Cities
- Tyler Cowen on the New Right
- Break up the United States!
- Links to Consider, 10/20
- Albion's Seed, Special Providence, and now, 10/19
- The Weak Case for Democracy
- Reminder Wednesday afternoon discussion
- Links to Consider, 10/17
- Markets Fail. . .And Libertarianism Still Works, 10/16
- Tomorrow Belongs to the Woke
- Links to Consider, 10/14
- Ben Bernanke's 2007 Summary of His Views
- Links to Consider, 10/12
- Affiliation Drives Theory
- My Grouchy Reaction to the 2022 Nobel
- Ed West on Political Differences, 10/10
- ...And Everybody Hates the Libertarians, 10/9
- Links to Consider, 10/8
- How We Choose Our Beliefs
- Links to Consider, 10/6
- Join a Book Discussion on 10/19
- Hear what you're missing
- Links to Consider, 10/4
- What's Up With British Interest Rates?
- Finance and Risk
- Links to Consider, 10/1
September 2022
- Doctors, Science, and Vaccine, 9/30
- Is the Inflation Surge Over?
- Bank Profits
- Links to Consider, 9/28
- Will Leo Grande be a cultural turning point? 9/27
- A Screeching Halt?
- Links to Consider
- Bare-Knuckle Politics, 9/24
- Upward-mobility Grants, 9/23
- Links to consider, 9/22
- Score Settling on COVID
- Register for no-cost panel discussion of Russ Roberts' Latest Book
- How House Prices and Rents Relate
- State of the Economy Discussion
- Links to Consider, 9/19
- Designing Studies for COVID Treatments, 9/18
- Links to Consider, 9/17
- Will America Profit from Europe's Misery? 9/16
- Links to Consider
- Energy and Economic Growth
- Links to Consider
- Bret Weinstein and Steve Patterson on the Scientific Method
- The U.S. Labor Market and Inflation
- Links to consider, 9/10
- Why does Evolution use a Mixed Strategy? 9/9
- Link for Monday's Zoom event
- The Latest Book From Russ Roberts, 9/8
- Links to Consider, 9/7
- Internet History and Substacks' Future
- Moral Entitlement
- Links to Consider, 9/4
- The Analog to Spotify,9/3
- How Programmers Win in Business
- Links to Consider, 9/1
August 2022
- How a Business Wins
- Research Questions for Economists
- Kevin Erdmann on House Prices and Rents, 8/29
- Links to Consider, 8/28
- Having Rich Friends, 8/27
- Robin Hanson to join our Zoom Monday
- Paid Subscriber Event
- Links to Consider, 8/25
- Commodity Prices and the Case for Markets
- Reminder: Tomorrow join Max, Martin, and me on Balaji
- Has Everyone Forgotten the Economics of Exhaustible Resources?
- Links to Consider, 8/22
- Watch the Swiss
- My Recent Reading, 8/20
- Links to Consider, 8/19
- IDW has-beens? 8/18
- Join me next Wednesday
- Stretching the Definition of Capital, 8/17
- Some Links to Consider
- Test your economic knowledge
- An Education in Price Discrimination
- When Economic Giants Roamed the Earth, 8/13
- Why I am not a Fan of Donald Trump, 8/12
- Some Links to Consider, 8/11
- Gay Rights and Wrongs, 8/10
- We Tax Behavior, Not People 8/9
- Francis Fukuyama has a Wish, 8/8
- Some Links to Consider, 8/7
- Economic Activity has been Increasing, 8/6
- Perry Mehrling on Money and Crypto, 8/5
- Keeping up with the FITs, 8/4
- Four Folkways and Liberty, 8/3
- The Network State
- Crisis of Abundance, 8/1
July 2022
- Can Academic Economics be Saved? 7/31
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/31
- Monday evening discussion
- What Should GDP Measure? 7/29
- The Carbon Calculation Problem, 7/28
- Allison Schrager's Substack Finds, 7/27
- Peter Thiel on Child Care and GDP, 7/26
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/25
- Allison Schrager Zoom Event
- DEI Leads to Racism, 7/24
- TLP, then and now, 7/23
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/22
- Notes from Virginia Postrel Discussion, 7/21
- Impact Markets: The Annoying Concept, 7/20
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/19
- Reminder Virginia Postrel conversation tonight
- Macroeconomics is Irregular, 7/18
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/17
- Unsustainable Sri Lanka, 7/16
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/15
- "Coalition of the Sane" 7/14
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/13
- Deceivers, Skeptics, and Enablers, 7/12
- Two upcoming Zoom events
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/10
- Hansonian Education? 7/9
- Questions about Human Ecology, 7/8
- Road to Sociology Watch, 7/7
- My Review of Zeihan
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/5
- Donald Trump vs. the Deep State, 7/4
- Keeping up with the FITs, 7/3
- Wish for Order Watch, 7/2
- Keeping up with the FITs and comments, 7/1
June 2022
- Things, People, and Symbols, 6/30
- Three Central Banks Watch, 6/29
- Keeping up with the FITs, 6/28
- Our Peter Zeihan Discussion
- Milton Friedman's Macroeconomic Legacy, 6/27
- Accountability and Authority, 6/26
- Keeping up with the FITs, 6/25
- On Amway and Crypto, 6/24
- Book discussion of Peter Zeihan this coming Monday; and Boston meetup?
- Alcohol, Drugs, Homelessness and Crime, 6/23
- Keeping up with the FITs, 6/22
- Want to discuss Peter Zeihan's latest book?
- Ecib 101 vs, Gasoline rebates, 6/21
- Culture Shifting into Reverse? 6/20
- Keeping up with the FITs, 6/19
- The New Thing: San Francisco Reality, 6/18
- The New Thing: Economic Reality, 6/17
- Keeping up with the FITs, 6/16
- What Triggers Your Moral Ire? 6/15
- The Kavanaugh Aftermath, 6/14
- Drain the Swamp, 6/13
- Keeping up with the FITs, 6/12
- Three Central Banks Watch, 6/11
- Keeping up with the FITs, 6/10
- Live on Saturday: The Wish for Order
- Road to Sociology Watch, 6/9
- Investor Heuristics vs. Economic Reality, 6/9
- Talent vs. Feminization, 6/7
- Networks and Social Capital, 6/6
- Keeping up with the Comments, 6/5
- Keeping up with the FITs, 6/4
- Peter Zeihan on Energy Markets, 6/3
- Finance: The Tug-o'-War Model, 6/2
- Government and Cost Disease, 6/1
May 2022
- Learning from My Employment Experiences, 5/31
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/30
- Listen to the (need for) Science, 5/29
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/28
- Michael Saylor is ba-a-a-ck, 5/28
- The Surveillance Solution, 5/26
- The Three Central Banks, 5/25
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/24
- Virginia Postrel has a Substack, 5/23
- Cowen and Gross ask questions, 5/22
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/21
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/20
- Is the Fed going bankrupt? 5/19
- Beware of Buying the Dips, 5/18
- The Science is Unsettled, 5/18
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/17
- Show Your Work, 5/16
- Recent Deficits as Wartime Finance, 5/15
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/14
- Gender Gap Watch, 5/13
- Current Developments in U.S. Financial Markets
- Genius Stifled, 5/12
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/11
- Kamala Harris and Affirmative Action, 5/10
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/9
- White Paper for Network-Based Higher Ed, 5/8
- Those who can't, become educrats, 5/7
- Abortion Laws, Then and Now, 5/6
- Talkin' 'Bout My Generation, 5/6
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/5
- Job Search Advice, 5/4
- The next Ayn Rand? 5/3
- Keeping up with the FITs, 5/2
- Pessimism from a finance geek, 5/1
April 2022
- Michael Lind vs. NWW, 4/30
- Sanctions strengthen the dollar? 4/30
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/29
- What is the Floor for Stock Prices?, 4/28
- The Internet Impossibility Theorem, 4/27
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/26
- Reminder for tonight
- Defund, Dismantle, Decentralize, 4/25
- The Crisis of Epistemology, Con't 4/24
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/23
- Book Discussion: Violence and Social Orders
- How Should College Work? 4/22
- Inflation and Capital Gains Taxes, 4/21
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/20
- DC and LA, 4/19
- Classic Social Theory: North, Weingast, and Wallis, 4/18
- April 25: Decentralized Finance
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/17
- Whatever became of the IDW, 4/16
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/15
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/14
- Investment Advice, 4/13
- Political Economy and Bitcoin, 4/12
- Philanthropy Makes Me Angry, 4/11
- ESG makes Peter Thiel angry, 4/10
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/9
- Poor in Food, Rich in Bits, 4/8
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/7
- I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional, 4/6
- War in the 21st century, 4/5
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/4
- Dear Econ Major, 4/3
- Tribalism with Instant Global Communication, 4/2
- Keeping up with the FITs, 4/1
March 2022
- City of Angels, 3/31
- Keeping up with the FITs 3/30
- The Revival of the Liberal Order, 3/29
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/28
- What Did I Learn? 3/27
- For our fourth seminar on financial institutions
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/26
- Some World War II History, 3/26
- What Went Wrong? 3/24
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/23
- The Trouble with Financial Innovation, 3/22
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/21
- Mortgages and Inflation, 3/20
- Grad School Days, 3/19
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/18
- Destabilizing the Dollar, 3/17
- Elites, but with Checks and Turnover, 3/16
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/15
- Seminar update, 3/14
- Our Collective Amygdala, 3/13
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/12
- Bob Gibson and Park Effects, 3/11
- The Economic Consequences of the War, 3/10
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/9
- Puritans and Scots-Irish, 3-8
- John Cochrane on the Helicopter Drop, 3/7
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/6
- Safe Haven No More, 3/5
- Upcoming Seminar on Financial Institutions
- Mr. Trump at 2022 CPAC last week, 3/4
- Twitter-Mob Diplomacy, 3/3
- Keeping up with the FITs, 3/2
- Conversation with Tyler
February 2022
- Allies and Ostracism, 2/28
- How I Approach Social Change, 2/27
- Dissent, Crime, and Access to Banking, 2/26
- Monday evening Zoom event
- Ukraine and Russia
- Keeping up with the FITs, 2/24
- A Primer on Pyramid Schemes, 2/23
- Kurt Gray on Moral Psychology, 2/22
- Keeping up with the FITs, 2/21
- The Convergence Assumption 2/20
- Reminder of Zoom event Monday night
- Pining for the 20th Century, 2/19
- Keeping up with the FITs, 2/18
- Neoliberal Welfare Policy for the U.S. 2/17
- NIMBY on Bike Lanes, 2/16
- Keeping up with the FITs, 2-15
- The Null Hypothesis and School Closures, 2/14
- Progressivism vs. Dynamism, 2/13
- Intersectional Privilege, 2/12
- Keeping up with the FITs, 2-11
- Upcoming Zoom events for paid subscribers
- Real Wealth and Paper Wealth, 2/10
- My Thoughts on an Alt-Academy, 2/9
- Government wants unrestrained power, 2/8
- Keeping up with the FITs, 2/7
- Were the Beatles Just Lucky? 2/6
- Wokeism Will not be Defeated Politically, 2/5
- Keeping up with the FITs, 2/4
- Public Health Midwits, 2/3
- Kling and Robert Wright, 2/2
- In Defense of Whoopi Goldberg
- The Midwit Hypothesis, 2/1
January 2022
- Men, Women, and the Rules of Competition, 1/31
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1/30
- The Rube Goldberg Fed, 1/29
- Aphorisms about Financial Markets, 1/28
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1/27
- The Future of the Right? 1/26
- Too Much Dynamism? 1/25
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1/24
- Some Health Economics for Scott Alexander, 1/23
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1/22
- PSST: About Supply and Demand, 1/21
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1/20
- A Savings Multiplier? 1/19
- Servants to the Rich, 1/18
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1/17
- Gurri the Younger on Reforming Government, 1/16
- Government is not a Business, 1/15
- Keeping up with the Fits, 1/14
- Lawfare Against Misinformation 1/13
- Christopher Rufo, pro and con, 1/12
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1/11
- The Elizabeth Holmes Jury, 1/10
- Should Congress Take Charge? 1/9
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1-8
- Women Meet, Men Re-org, 1-7
- Get rid of all competition? 1-6
- Keeping up with the FITs, 1-5
- Seminar on Financial Institutions
- On The Constitution of Knowledge, 1/4
- Our Conversation with Zvi Mowshowitz
- State Capacity and Accountability, 1/3
- Keeping up with the FITs 1/2
- Would Friction Improve Social Media? 1/1/2022
- Live Events for Paid Subscribers on Monday
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December 2021
- The Pragmatic Case for Positivism, 12/31
- What's Wrong with the New Right, 12-30
- Keeping up with the FITs, 12/29
- Data Ownership, 12-28
- Parse this Headline, 12-27
- Conversation and seminar for paid subscribers
- Keeping up with the FITs, 12-26
- Seminar recap 12/25
- Internet > Nation-state? 12/24
- Keeping up with the FITs, 12-23
- Thoughts on COVID fear, 12/22
- Team Transitory Lives! 12/21
- Seminar final meeting
- Keeping up with the FITs 12/20
- Events for paid subscribers (posted 12-19)
- Me vs. Social Media Civics, 12/18
- Explaining Current Anti-liberalism, 12-17
- Keeping up with the FITs 12/16
- Seminar recap 12/15
- Sad History, 12/14
- Keeping up with the FITs, 12/13
- Non-fiction Books 12/12
- The Case for Real Meritocracy, 12/11
- State Capacity and State Humility, 12/10
- Seminar recap, session 6, 12-9
- Keeping up with the FITs, 12/8
- Why the Great Resignation? 12/7
- link for subscriber seminar
- Keeping up with the FITs, 12/6
- Regressives, 12/5
- The Boom in Global Wealth 12/4
- Neoliberal > Populist 12/3
- The Dark Side of the NatCons, 12-2
- Keeping up with the FITs, 12/1
- Production, commerce, and predation, 12/1
November 2021
- Seminar recap, session 5, 11/30
- Enchanted beliefs, 11/30
- Keeping up with the FITs, 11-29
- Seminar meeting 11/29
- Keeping up with the Virus, 11-28
- Keeping up with the FITs 11/27
- Feminization watch 11/27
- Arithmetic in another bubble 11/26
- Keeping up with the FITs, 11/26
- The Procreation Recession 11/25
- Seminar recap, session 4, 11/24
- Bad Folk Economics, 11/24
- Keeping up with the FITs, 11/23
- Seminar on Institutional Irrationality Continues Tonight 11/22
- David Brooks and Paul Ryan 11/22
- I can be wrong 11/21
- Keeping up with the FITs 11/20
- Fear of the legal system 11/19
- We are in a Golden Age 11/18
- An alternative national science foundation 11/17
- Seminar discussion recap, session 3
- Keeping up with the FITs 11/16
- Seminar for paid subscribers
- Inflation and history 11/15
- Keeping up with the FITs 11/14
- Concepts are hard to define 11/13
- From the National Conservatism Conference 11/12
- The orgasmatron vs. the office avatar 11/11
- DEI Statements
- Seminar notes, session 2
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 26
- Seminar meeting tonight
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 25
- Notes from first seminar meeting
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 24
October 2021
- Seminar reminder
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 23
- How to attend the first seminar meeting
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 22
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 21
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 20
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 19
- Seminar starts in two weeks
- An Economic Theory of Woke Takeovers
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 18
- Use Your Economics!
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 17
- Seminar for Paid Subscribers
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 16
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 15
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 14
- Seminar: further thoughts
- School Then and Now
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 13
September 2021
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 12
- A Pinker Disappointment
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 11
- Seminar: Modern Problems
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 10
- Scott Alexander vs. Martin Gurri
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 9
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 8
- Stock prices and interest rates
- Keeping up with the FITs, no. 7
- Keeping up with the FITs, No. 6
- Catching up with the FITs, No. 5
August 2021
- Meetup on Zoom
- Catching up with the FITs, no. 4
- The Game of Acquiring Status
- Catching up with the FITS, no. 3
- Tyler Cowen Disagrees with me about Inflation
- Catching up with the FITS (2)
- Catching up with the FITS
- Fantasy Intellectuals on Afghanistan
- 1967: Smoking, Music, and Hippies
- Are Rental Contracts Ethical?
- 1965: Baseball, Race, and Economics
- A Government Debt Crisis?
July 2021
- Interest Rates, Inflation, and History
- Dear young renter
- Can't Duck Critical Race Theory
- Stock Market Exuberance
- Interest Rates and Inflation
- Doing Away with College
- Notes on racial gaps
June 2021
- Notes from a talk by Jonathan Haidt
- Notes for a Workshop on Polarization
- Jonathan Rauch on What Ails the Reality-based Community
- Understanding Financial Institutions
- What's Wrong with Inflation?
- There is No Labor Shortage
- Inflation: Nothing to See Here?
- George Packer rediscovers four traditions
- The Real Problem of Social Media Discourse
- Final Standings for May
May 2021
- Defenders of Liberal Values
- Economic Discourse Collapses in the Age of Twitter
- We Don't Need a Civil War
- The Helicopter Drop
- How to make Twitter less rude
- The Moral Dyad and Health Care Policy
- Fantasy Intellectual Teams, week 2
- Can Anyone Found a Polity?
- Matt Yglesias on policy vs. polarization
- This Week in Fantasy Intellectual Teams
- Cass Sunstein, Tyler Cowen winners in April
- The Permissive Parent and the Crybaby
April 2021
- Fantasy Intellectual Teams Draft for May
- Heterodoxy and Apostasy
- Get to the Point
- Did the center-left lose the 2020 election?
- Help me to populate Fantasy Intellectual Teams
- The Corruption of our Social Learning System
- Who is in my tribe?
- Fantasy Intellectual Teams, improving social epistemology, and other random topics