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In NYC, the EYM took us to visit "Supermoon."  It's....well, it's this . After we ordered (the pastries were, I grudgi...

AIER does an occasional post where they ask an economist to answer some questions.  Some of the questions are pretty serious, some more wh...

Anybody have any idea what could have caused this?  We got 7k+ extra page views per day, for four days, and then it stopped. Extremely la...

So, maybe someday I'll learn.  Though the evidence is against that. Mark Twain once said, "Never pick a quarrel with a man who b...

Got this email today: Hello Mike, My name is Matilda Thompson, social media manager at Blogdash.com. We’ve been following your blog ...

Greta Garbo, and Monroe Deitrich and DiMaggio Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean On the cover of a magazine Grace Kelly; Harlow, Jean Pict...

Reihan Salam is one of my favorite bloggers. He comes up big , again, discussing the correlation between majors and incomes . To be fair...

You likely know this already. But Tim Blair rulz .

Interesting, thoughtful article. By Paul Krugman, lest we forget that he is actually a very smart man.

FLG has a valid point here . You can't have just any shirt-tail guy off the street thinking they can do a hit-and-run post on bizarr...

A roundup of some interesting links on what blogs do, may do, and probably don't do. From the Incidental Economist : Another set o...

LeBron takes up a question : Does blogging improve the professional rep of an economist? And does blogging change policy? I can answe...

Darn, that hurts. I thought Paul and me was tight, ya heard? But apparently NOT, since " ALL his favorite libertarians " write for...

Herr Fuchs sends this link, to an article by the estimable John Sides of the also estimable Monkey Cage . In one part of the article, Joh...