Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wolff
Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff made all the news shows (plus late night) as required political reading. I downloaded a sample and...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds: Book Review
Another Michael Lewis bestseller, The Undoing Project, is about the collaboration of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos...
Dark Charisma 2: More Bad Guys
Hitler is the obvious example and the topic of the fist Dark Charisma post. But other examples are seemingly everywhere, including...
Fairness/Justice
The concept of justice has multiple meanings, which can be in conflict. Alternative perspectives run from the ancient world to today,...
Bitcoin and Tulipmania
Bitcoin made new highs, investors made a fortune. The only explanation is their unquestioned brilliance. Have we seen this before?...
Subjective Probabilities: Texas Edition
Earlier this year I added a number of Trump possibilities, but only thought two were likely (probability over 50%): Trump would serve out...
Free Markets
A free market exists when goods and services are bought and sold in open markets at prices determined by supply and demand. Free markets...
Dark Charisma
I recently watched a BBC documentary called "The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler," then read Shirer's The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler...
Misbehaving: a Book Review
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard Thaler (2015). This is something of a memoir of Thaler more or less creating...
Thaler Wins the Nobel Prize
Richard Thaler, professor of economics at Chicago, won the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics. He is a founder of behavioral economics, which...
Fragile by Design: Book Review
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises & Scarce Credit (2014), Calomiris & Haber. The key point of this book is the...
Book Review on Business Fraud
Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal, Eugene Soltes (2016). Soltes wrote, called, and emailed various...
Franken Book Review
Al Franken: Giant of the Senate (2017). The strange story of how a comedy writer/performer became a serious politician. Apparently, he...
American Exceptionalism
Is this a thing? Or do people just role their eyes? It seems to be a thing, worth considering, but possibly taking a skeptical look. The...
David Brooks on Moderates
David Brooks' August 22, 2017 column in the New York Times (which showed up on Facebook) was "What Moderates Believe." Here are some...