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If you want to make a lot of money, pitch God to fundamentalists and don’t try to write good books. Instead, try to write books that [fundamentalists] are going to like. And those two things don’t go together. Frank Schaeffer in his interview with Kirkus Review of...

We Are Wired to be Stupid

Seriously. But I’m not writing about that yet. I’m just making myself a note to read as much literature in the field of behavioural economics as I can. Found a good list to start with, though I suspect Mises’s Human Action is still better than any...

Fun With Numbers

Here’s a cool video that helps us visualize the RBNs (Really Big Numbers) that the math geniuses running the country are busy juggling.

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…the only regulation that will ever work is failure… Businesses should fail, that’s the way the system was designed. Rick Santelli in an interview on King World News Two years ago, Congress had a chance to keep the economy from tanking. All they had...

Deep Thoughts from NNT

Here’s a quote from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a new addition to my “favorite authors”: What makes us fragile is that institutions cannot have the same virtues (honor, truthfulness, courage, loyalty, tenacity, generosity ) as individuals. I have long...

Rise Fenrir, Your Time Approaches

It sates itself on the life-blood of fated men, paints red the powers’ homes with crimson gore. Black become the sun’s beams in the summers that follow, weathers all treacherous. Do you still seek to know? And what? Brothers will fight and kill each other,...