You don’t have to care about Marvel movies to understand this post, but my wife and I were watching Falcon and The Winter Soldier last week, and something hit me the wrong way. The group of terrorists The Falcon is trying to stop believed the world was better off after Thanos snapped half of all […]
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I Don’t Want To Play Your Zero Sum Game
08 Apr 2021
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Deutsche Bank recently conducted a study and proposed a new tax. Whenever you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it. Deutsche’s central desire is to tax people working from home (WFH) to redistribute that money to people who cannot work from home along with reducing the […]
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So at least says this CNBC article. Now Democrats are always in the business of offering to give something to some interest group, and have somebody else pay for it, so there is little new here. Give me free stuff–what’s not to like? But two quick points on a Monday morning. First is the proposal […]
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When I was a much younger economist, prior to going off for my Ph.D., I had the privilege of attending a speaking engagement by Franco Modigliani, a Nobel prize winner who did much of the pioneering work in modern finance. I was teaching at the Air Force Academy in the mid 1990s, and Colorado College […]
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Hubris. Will it cost Mr. Trump a 2nd term?
26 Aug 2019
Hubris is defined by wikipedia as “a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with arrogance.” Most of the people I know have a bit of a problem with pride and arrogance, especially including the guy I see in the mirror. But most people try to keep that under […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 29
10 Jun 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Q: Daniel asks: “Thoughts regarding the recent revelations surrounding Martin Luther King Jr.? How do we reconcile revelations like this regarding people, who […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 26
13 May 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Well, summer is just about underway for me. Grad classes are ending, the sun is shining longer, and the festivities are beginning once […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 25
06 May 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Well, it’s just three questions this week, but that’s more by choice than necessity as two of these turned into small essays on […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 24
29 Apr 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. It’s been a while since I’ve done a classical music recommendation, so I’d would be remiss to fumble this opportunity to recommend my […]
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Weekly Sage #19: Irving Fisher
15 Mar 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Irving Fisher “We have seen that all wealth and property imply prospective services or ‘desirable events.’ It is the desirability of these future expected services which gives […]
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