Spoiler Alert: If You Haven’t Yet Seen the Premiere Episode of The Walking Dead Season 7 and don’t want to know what happens until you do, stop reading right now. I’m surprised that so many people seem to be appalled by the gore and violence of the Season 7 premiere of The Walking Dead. We […]
Price Gouging: My Thoughts
Here is a list of articles and blogs I’ve written regarding Price Gouging. Price Gouging in a Picture Price Gouging Laws Hurt Storm Victims Art Carden:Price Gouging Fill-in-the-Blank Article About Price-Gouging Laws Preventing Post-Disaster Price Gouging Yields Devastating Results Is Price Gouging Bad? The Law of Demand Art Carden on Christian Ethics & Economics Sound […]
Get Control Of Your Personal Finances
I often get requests for help with personal finances. I have a $0 course on personal finance available at Udemy that you can access here. It walks you through the basics of managing your money well by avoiding bad debt, saving aggressively, and investing wisely. The most important thing about managing your money is actually […]
Hayek, “Individualism and Economic Order”
“Perhaps the best illustration of the current misconceptions of the individualism of Adam Smith and his group is the common belief that they have invented the bogey of the “economic man” and that their conclusions are vitiated by their assumption of a strictly rational behavior or generally by a false rationalistic psychology. They were, of […]
The Best 99 Cents I’ve Spent Recently
The best 99 cents I’ve spent recently? iPhone Monopoly. It’s a great way to relax, the kids seem to like it, and it’s virtually identical to the original. It’s also a lot quicker than playing on the board because all the math is done automatically. If you want to spend a dollar learning some economics, […]
Identify the Marching Band Geeks at the Gym With This One Weird Trick
From 1997-1999 I played trombone in the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band. I’ve noticed from my own behavior that there’s basically one thing you need to know in order to identify a band geek at the gym–or in any public place, for that matter. It’s not “are they moving in time with the music?” […]
Navigating With My Apple Watch
I have a truly awful sense of direction, which means it’s extremely easy for me to get lost when I go places. This is especially troublesome until we got our first GPS device, a Garmin, in 2007 or so. The Garmin wasn’t of much help, though, when I was walking. I became sold on smartphones […]
New On the Shelf, New on the Kindle
Calestous Juma, Innovation and its Enemies. After flipping through it and reading the section headings I can already tell this is going to be very interesting. If you don’t follow the author on Twitter, you should: @calestous. Robert Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth. I read the first few dozen pages on my Kindle […]
Review: The Art Of Less Doing
If you’ve already read books like Getting Things Done by David Allen, Essentialism by Greg McKeown, or The Four-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, or Jason Womack’s books, Your Best Just Got Better and Get Momentum, you won’t find much in The Art Of Less Doing by Ari Meisel that’s really new. That said, it’s very interesting […]
Not As Much I Like Fried Chicken: Present Vs. Future Satisfaction
Episode number 39 of season three of Teen Titans Go! (titled “Think About Your Future”) poses an interesting question: is high time preference a way of redistributing from our rich future selves to our poor present selves? Moreover, are we saving too much or too little? At first glance, the Titans actions look absurd. However, […]