http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22078790According to this study, the more you swear, the less effective it becomes at reducing pain.
That’s not really material though is it. I just use “F__K” as many times as I need to. It may require a lot of them. but they’re infinitely cheap, and in infinite supply. 🙂 – The economics of cursing.
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-17 19:24:00 UTC
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/iowa/2012_iowa_republican_caucusRon Paul has illustrated that libertarians have grown sufficiently to constitute 10 to 15% of the electorate. However, the country is heavily conservative, and where it is not conservative, it favors the republican economic program. It’s impressive that the libertarians have made so much progress. It’s unfortunate that it’s unlikely to make greater progress — without enfranchising conservatives on geopolitical strategy.
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-17 16:56:00 UTC
Curt, You posted once that archaeological digs of dead civilizations show poorer food near the surface than deep down (where the golden-age relics are found). So. . . I saw this in the Seattle Times today:
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-15 20:16:00 UTC
http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/11/can-we-predict-bubbles-and-dont-we-really-want-them/There are things we don’t want to know.
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-15 11:03:00 UTC
http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/11/why-does-the-right-lean-toward-ngdp-targeting/Why the right leans toward targeting NGDP.
(If I was only this patient when I wrote all the time.)
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-15 11:03:00 UTC
Lessons From Gene Simmons? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060593/Could-man-save-Britain-s-economy-After-building-personal-fortune–100m-rocks-scariest-star-Gene-Simmons-just-invited-lecture-economists.html
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-12 09:30:00 UTC
New York-themed bakeries in Moscow. Priceless.
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-12 00:28:00 UTC
“In four years of reflection and rather intense involvement with this financial crisis, not a single aspect of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium has seemed worth even a passing thought. … I think the profession is not entirely innocent.” — Larry Summers
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-11 11:29:00 UTC
I love Russia. I love Russians. I love all the crazy wonderful stuff about them.
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-09 14:22:00 UTC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b016lklv/iPM_05_11_2011/The case for Monarchy. Constitutional monarchy, with property rights under the common law is the best form of government yet developed. Hoppe’s forceful argument is that under monarchy we had lower taxes, fewer wars, trade unions, political parties, an active and supportive church, and that’s because as the ‘owner’ of the government, and the territory, the monarch acts as any business person who wants to hand his company over to the next generation – with long and low time preference. Furthermore, any action by the monarch that threatens the viability of the noble family tends to result in the family killing him off (see Mad Ludwig who build the bavarian castles we so admire.) Elected officials tend to treat the country like predators in a tragedy of the commons. THey consume everything like locusts and destroy the traditions and the wealth of the country. Furthermore, there is nothing more warlike than a democracy, and nothing so unwilling to follow through on it’s warlike ambitions.
Source date (UTC): 2011-11-05 17:04:00 UTC