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What Does It Mean to Have Predicted an Economic Event?
Consider the never-ending argument about whether certain economists did or did not predict the financial crisis in 2007-8. It raises all kinds of methodological questions in economics...
- Feb 22, 2019
Drone Startups Work Around the Clock to Make the World a Better Place
Drone technology has a lot of untapped potential. Unfortunately, most Americans might only know about the unmanned aerial vehicles thanks to the U.S. government and its unconstitutional...
- Feb 22, 2019
Durable-Goods Orders Rose in December on Strength in Consumer Durables
New orders for durable goods increased 1.2 percent in December following a 1.0 percent gain in November. For all of 2018, total durable-goods orders increased 7.3 percent. If aircraft are...
- Feb 21, 2019
You Don't Really Know When to Buy or Sell
I have little confidence in the ability of stock pickers to consistently outperform the simple and low-cost investment approaches pioneered by the recently passed Jack Bogle of Vanguard...
- Feb 21, 2019
Universities Might Be Ruining Students’ Lives
One of the more interesting books I read in 2018 was Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation...
- Feb 21, 2019
Going Postal
Financial exclusion is usually considered a third world problem. But even today, millions of Americans don’t have a bank account or access to formal financial services. In an effort to...
- Feb 21, 2019Programs
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