After a dizzying expansion, the BRIC bubble appears ready to burst. Share prices in Brazil, Russia, India and China — the so-called BRICs — have been declining sharply because of the global credit crunch and military tensions, likely forcing Japanese retail investors to change their investment strategies. In the past year, the Shanghai A-Share index [...]
Read more →Three Great Social Contractarians: Hobbes, Locke, and … Blackbeard? A Guest Post By PETER LEESON Peter Leeson, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at George Mason University and author of the forthcoming book “The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates,” blogged here earlier this week about U.F.O.’s and dominoes. This is his [...]
Read more →The Two Things summarizes essential professional wisdom in two sentences, such as The two things about economics One: Incentives matter. Two: There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” I have five examples. The two things about hexayurts: One: take twelve 4×8 panels, as close to Thermax HD as you can find, and then cut [...]
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Read more →cd blog/wp-content/plugins mkdir .OLD mv * .OLD now try logging in again. Note that none of your plugins will now work but you can at least log in again. I haven’t gone through and identified the culprit plugin. Hope this helps somebody.
Read more →http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503722.html?referrer=digg it just goes on and on and on.
Read more →http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080804/0421781.html Just smartcards, but…
Read more →http://www.citiesgogreen.com/component/content/article/45-the-tech-fix/183-hexayurt Really an excellent piece, captures more of the big picture than anything else done so far. Thank you!
Read more →Let’s talk about the wedge issues. These are the four big issues where Americans do not agree with each other, and cannot either change their minds or agree to disagree. The first wedge issue is abortion. Either an abortion is a murder or it isn’t. If it is, abortion clinics are neighbourhood death camps. If [...]
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