ECONOMY

Of Course We Should Privatize Some Federal Land (but probably won’t)

The Federal government controls a ridiculous amount of land in the West including more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada,…

11 months ago

Some northern parts of Spain

Salamanca still feels part of the orbit of Madrid, but León does not.  Many of the faces are more Celtic,…

11 months ago

Deport Dishwashers or Solve All Murders?

I understand being concerned about illegal immigration. I definitely understand being concerned about murder, rape, and robbery. What I don’t…

11 months ago

Not hard to geoguess this location…

Of course it is not in the state of Virginia… The post Not hard to geoguess this location… appeared first…

11 months ago

Why LLMs make certain mistakes

Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet. The post Why LLMs make certain mistakes appeared first on…

12 months ago

You Can See the End of the Great Stagnation Everywhere but in the Productivity Statistics

Eli Dourado continues to keep his eye on the most important number in the world, total factor productivity. It continues…

12 months ago

Glow in the Dark Flowers!

I love these glow-in-the-dark petunias. Aside from the novelty, they speak to science and progress! The petunias were genetically modified…

12 months ago

This is Vindication???

Joe Nocera has a strange piece in the Free Press arguing that the “godfathers of protectionism” have been vindicated. It…

1 year ago

Lady Liberty of the Pacific

Instead of re-opening Alcatraz as super-max prison we should build a statue to America. I suggest “Lady Liberty of the…

1 year ago

The Public Choice Outreach Conference

There are just a few spots left for the Public Choice Outreach Conference! Do encourage your students to apply!  …

1 year ago