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John, congratulations on the award from CSC. It's always good to have some professional recognition for hard work.

And the above is an example of something very important, which Ifirst heard of as Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is shit. 90% of all research is shit, 90% of all the economic "fixes" are shit, 90% of what you are told about politics and religion is shit (in those cases, perhaps even a higher per...

It's certainly unusual, though I think a good deal of this market spasm upwards for the last year has been due to noplace else to put the money. Retirees (such as my brother) who totally believe in the "buy and hold" thing, people who truly believe in "capitalism", though most couldn't define it on ...

A little scrap from Kipling, that keeps the time scales of change in perspective.

In August was the Jackal born,
The Rains came in September,
"Oh such a fearful flood as this"
Said he, "I can't remember".

.I'm happy to see the science of generational dynamics being popularized. I guess we could say its "arrived". :D I was talking to a major in the US army a few weeks ago, and mentioned that Iraq had a crisis war in the 80's. He asked how I meant that, so I told him it was how it would be described by...

Not so much off the mark, as there simply isn't that much money and they can't create that much money without crashing the US bond rating to nil. We're talking about a couple of years worth of GDP in debts. And that's the practical reason why the focus is on bad debts, not my debts, most of which I'...

This is fairly amusing, and, unhappily, fairly typical. And, of course, the record years are related to the peaks of the sunspot cycle. I don't think I'd base any policies on the notion that we'll never have another sunspot. http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/02/on-declining-global-temperatures-this...

I do assure you, there are as many lazy Mexican, Indians, Peruvians and what have you as there are lazy Americans. Lazy people aren't interested in moving halfway around the world to find work. I don't think an actual indepth analysis on both ends would show much of an advantage in immigration, unle...

The current public is very much like a spoiled 5 year old crying for a stuffed animal, who, when they are handed the animal, throws it away and starts crying for another. A simple reading of polls over the last six months shows expectations that amount to lower taxes coupled with balancing the budge...

Thanks for the kind words. I did do a small edit, it's seriously difficult to find a complete copy of Mussolini's doctrine, because he recalled the dratted thing not long after it was published. He probably decided that a complete exposition of his beliefs was giving ammunition to his enemies. Anyho...