Kids Prefer Cheese

Got some ink for the Kids Prefer Cheese blog, written by M. Munger and some other guy.  I think " Chopped Liver " is a fine name ...

On Wednesday, Feb 20 I gave a talk to the Bastiat Society of Charlotte . Here is the video.   Long, not easy to see, but you can see the ...

MVTs = Most Valuable Talkers: Lots of smart people with a lot to say. Was great to see some old friends and meet some people face to face ...

or, high art in low places. People, we have a long way to go to catch up with the Japanese. Feast your eyes: many more great ones he...

Records are back. They are so back that even The Economist has taken note : One innovation that has helped vinyl sales is that albums often...

An old country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession. Like many youn...

Man Robert Frank is ON FIRE in his Economic View column . The whole thing is 16 paragraphs, but in grafs 6-12 Bob lays out how we can get ...

Now just 2T:

1. Wayne Coyne tweets ! 2. Versus is back (really!) with a new album. 3. New No Age drops September 28th . 4. Tennis anyone?

From USA Today : A new kind of Mexican immigrant is making it big in the USA: huge Mexican corporations that are snapping up U.S. brand name...

Seriously? This report strains credulity.... But here is the newspaper story right here .... so it must be true, right? In a shot across t...

Here is change we can believe in : "Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join th...

The first entry in the series is here .

Potentially very cool new NBER working paper by Cúrdia and Reiss ( ungated version here ) argues that once you allow the exogenous shocks in...

Irish university system aboishes the center! Let a thousand flowers bloom. And save a lot of money, at the same time you get rid of centra...

Case in point : CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez says there's too much capitalism on Venezuelan TV. So he's urging produce...

hat tip to Art Carden!

I like very much the original intent of the enterprise we now call DSGE modelling. Build a model from first principles wherein we can identi...

Over at MR, Alex T. bemoans the government's plan to slash executive wages at the 7 "most bailed out" companies. I respectful...