Month: June 2010

Look at that – a journalist!

Let me be clear.  I know nothing about the issues in this video, or the parties involved.  But as someone who’s been pretty down on

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Does Human Trading Matter?

From Monsters in the Market, by Timothy Lavin (The Atlantic, July/August 2010): Algorithms like Dagger can exploit the smallest inefficiencies in the market. They can

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The Dartmouth Dust-up

The Dartmouth dust-up continues. I’m not going to referee because I haven’t had time to review all the papers and claims. If you’re looking for

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This is why we're screwed…

Check out this graph from the IMF: Let’s break it down.  On the x-axis, you have a measure of how much a country would have

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On Libertarianism

Count me among the perplexed, and no more so than about applying libertarian ideals to real problems. It’s not for lack of desire or effort

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