1. AOL buys Huffington Post for over $300 million. I did not realize that April 1st came in February.
2. A License to Shampoo. The WSJ covers a topic that would be my focus is somebody made me “jobs czar.” Or Constitution czar.
3. Russ Roberts and I talk about the PSST paradigm. I have not listened yet, but it’s self-recommending.
Feb 7 2011
Unlike most critics of Tiger Mother Amy Chua, I expect her kids to turn out fine. Why? Because their genes come from two Yale professors, and contrary to Tiger Mother and her critics alike, upbringing has little long-run effect. I was amused to learn, then, that Tiger Daughter #1 is not just a very im...
Feb 7 2011
Are you tired of having naked pictures taken of you and/or being groped at the airport in this "land of the free," but still worried about a terrorist hijacking of the airplane you're on? Is there a way out of this dismal tradeoff? Actually, yes. Bob Murphy tells you how to have more security, more freedom, and mor...
Feb 7 2011
1. AOL buys Huffington Post for over $300 million. I did not realize that April 1st came in February. 2. A License to Shampoo. The WSJ covers a topic that would be my focus is somebody made me "jobs czar." Or Constitution czar. 3. Russ Roberts and I talk about the PSST paradigm. I have not listened yet, bu...
READER COMMENTS
Brent Buckner
Feb 7 2011 at 11:04am
“Self-recommending”… cute use.
Philo
Feb 7 2011 at 12:16pm
“Constitution czar”–what a priceless idea! But can anyone imagine Obama’s appointing a Constitution Czar?
Jonathan
Feb 9 2011 at 3:45pm
Russ spent a while pointing out that recalculation is constantly occurring, and usually occurs far more smoothly and less painfully than now. Seems to me that clearly sometimes the next step up is a simple hill climb toward the local maximum, and sometimes it is a dip away. Nothing technical there, just an intuition.
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