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‘One From the Many’: Meissner’s Economic History Shines—Until It Doesn’t
The most important thing a book on the economic history of the world must emphasize, again and again, is the…
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Golden Hiccups in our Modern Financial System
Last time this much gold crossed the Atlantic, the French were repatriating their gold reserves from New York — in…
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Can Behavioral Economics Explain America’s Gun Violence Epidemic?
In the 2022 BBC show Inside Man, Stanley Tucci’s character (Jefferson Grieff), an inmate on death row, says something dramatic…
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The Nvidia Way: How Nvidia Became the Most Valuable Company in History
Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company out of the blue — almost. Adding trillions to its market capitalization within…
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Benjamin Graham and How to Invest Like a Legend
I learned stock analysis and financial accounting from an online nym called “Lundaluppen.” It was the early 2010s, blogging was…
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Public Goods in a Free Society
"Even under this supposed solution to a market failure, we’re getting less public goods than we get shafted for. Like…
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Foot Voting Reconsidered: How Should I Think About Leaving?
"Compared to ballot voting, moving has larger individual impacts, which mean greater incentives to acquire knowledge; it provides a better…
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Bitcoin Is ‘Resistance Money’
"Freedom money, wielded by its users and resistant to capture, identification, and censorship, doesn’t dispel unfair laws or make evil…
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Unlimited Growth, Forever
"Every popular scare of the past has been side-stepped, improved, or solved, by one or another human effort, usually serendipitously…
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Bitcoin Mining and Icelandic Bananas
"Stranded energy and unused electricity are magnets for bitcoin miners, as they take electricity that can’t readily be used for…
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