Given the continued coverage of crimes it is sometimes easy to forget we are very lucky. As reported this morning, murder and other crime continues to drop in California and around the world. In fact, if you look at crime from a historical perspective, we are really the luckiest people that have ever lived, and things …
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Professional Chinese WoW Gold Farmer interview
This video is six months old, which is ages World of Warcraft’s RMT (Real Money Transactions) economy, but it still contains a lot of great information on the game market economics. For those of you not familiar with WoW, it is the largest massively multiplayer online role-playing game in the world with over 12 million …
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Economics reading
I’ve been catching up on a lot of reading with instapaper and our kindle. Here are some of the more interesting economics reads I’ve had in the last few months: Business Is Booming – America’s leading corporations have found a way to thrive even if the American economy doesn’t recover. This is very, very bad …
Killing babies
I just finished listening to a short from Radiolab called Killing Babies, Saving the World. The subject follows a lot of discussions I’ve had with friends over the years about the differences in logic choices depending on how abstract a benefit is, or how overloaded one’s thought processes are. It does a great job of …
The beast is starved, now what?
We had a conversation with a neighbor today about the republican party punishing members that reminded me of this article by Krugman: The Bankruptcy Boys Voters may say that they oppose big government, but the programs that actually dominate federal spending — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — are very popular. So how can the …