Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • (cultural observations) I really love my people. Although we are far too easily

    (cultural observations) I really love my people. Although we are far too easily the victims of carbs and sugar – and apparently alcohol combined with a desire to work and produce as a means of not only status and utility, but entertainment. I’m in a place right now where there are a lot of germanic looking short folks with blond, dirty blonde, and light brown hair (clearly kin), who are all short, barrel chested, and decidedly middle class. I love these people. Really. But damnit if weight is not the curse of my people.

  • (cultural observations) I really love my people. Although we are far too easily

    (cultural observations) I really love my people. Although we are far too easily the victims of carbs and sugar – and apparently alcohol combined with a desire to work and produce as a means of not only status and utility, but entertainment. I’m in a place right now where there are a lot of germanic looking short folks with blond, dirty blonde, and light brown hair (clearly kin), who are all short, barrel chested, and decidedly middle class. I love these people. Really. But damnit if weight is not the curse of my people.

  • (cultural observations) I really love my people. Although we are far too easily

    (cultural observations)

    I really love my people. Although we are far too easily the victims of carbs and sugar – and apparently alcohol combined with a desire to work and produce as a means of not only status and utility, but entertainment. I’m in a place right now where there are a lot of germanic looking short folks with blond, dirty blonde, and light brown hair (clearly kin), who are all short, barrel chested, and decidedly middle class. I love these people. Really. But damnit if weight is not the curse of my people.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-27 14:54:00 UTC

  • Our Cultures Determine Our Production

    Americans are Optimistic – Stock Market and Technology Canadians Less So – Real Estate (selling homes to immigrants) Brits Less So – Bond Market, Banking, Finance, Trade Germans Less So – Large Scale, heavy capital, manufacturing and tech. Italians Less So – Luxury Goods and Produce Poles Less So – Machinery and manufacturing. Russians Less So – Military Investment, and resources. From Risky to Less Risky – our cultures determine our products because they determine the size of the companies we can build, the risk of production we can tolerate, and the rate of change we can competitively adapt to

  • Our Cultures Determine Our Production

    Americans are Optimistic – Stock Market and Technology Canadians Less So – Real Estate (selling homes to immigrants) Brits Less So – Bond Market, Banking, Finance, Trade Germans Less So – Large Scale, heavy capital, manufacturing and tech. Italians Less So – Luxury Goods and Produce Poles Less So – Machinery and manufacturing. Russians Less So – Military Investment, and resources. From Risky to Less Risky – our cultures determine our products because they determine the size of the companies we can build, the risk of production we can tolerate, and the rate of change we can competitively adapt to

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. OUR CULTURES DETERMINE OUR PRODUCTION America

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    OUR CULTURES DETERMINE OUR PRODUCTION

    Americans are Optimistic – Stock Market and Technology
    Canadians Less So – Real Estate (selling homes to immigrants)
    Brits Less So – Bond Market, Banking, Finance, Trade
    Germans Less So – Large Scale, heavy capital, manufacturing and tech.
    Italians Less So – Luxury Goods and Produce
    Poles Less So – Machinery and manufacturing.
    Russians Less So – Military Investment, and resources.

    From Risky to Less Risky – our cultures determine our products because they determine the size of the companies we can build, the risk of production we can tolerate, and the rate of change we can competitively adapt to.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-26 12:46:35 UTC

  • OUR CULTURES DETERMINE OUR PRODUCTION Americans are Optimistic – Stock Market an

    OUR CULTURES DETERMINE OUR PRODUCTION

    Americans are Optimistic – Stock Market and Technology

    Canadians Less So – Real Estate (selling homes to immigrants)

    Brits Less So – Bond Market, Banking, Finance, Trade

    Germans Less So – Large Scale, heavy capital, manufacturing and tech.

    Italians Less So – Luxury Goods and Produce

    Poles Less So – Machinery and manufacturing.

    Russians Less So – Military Investment, and resources.

    From Risky to Less Risky – our cultures determine our products because they determine the size of the companies we can build, the risk of production we can tolerate, and the rate of change we can competitively adapt to.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-26 08:46:00 UTC

  • The Fixed, Equilibrial, and Unlimited Pies 😉

    The left see a fixed pie when convenient and an endless pie when convenient, but they never seem to notice that it is demand for reciprocity and the division of perception, cognition, knowledge, and advocacy along short, medium, and long term time horizons that continuously produces an ever expanding pie.

  • Curt Doolittle updated his status. UM. ELIMINATING TAX HAVENS IS BAD POLICY. Is

    Curt Doolittle updated his status.

    UM. ELIMINATING TAX HAVENS IS BAD POLICY.

    Is eliminating corporate tax havens such a good idea?

    Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato says maybe not:

    —“We show that eliminating firms’ access to tax havens has unintended consequences for economic growth. We analyze a policy change that limited profit shifting for US multinationals, and show that the reform raised the effective cost of investing in the US. Exposed firms respond by reducing global investment and shifting investment abroad — which lowered their domestic investment by 38% — and by reducing domestic employment by 1.0 million jobs. We then show that the costs of eliminating tax havens are persistent and geographically concentrated, as more exposed local labor markets experience declines in employment and income growth for over 15 years. We discuss implications of these results for other efforts to limit profit shifting, including new taxes on intangible income in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.”—

    via Tyler Cowen

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 12:45:59 UTC

  • UM. ELIMINATING TAX HAVENS IS BAD POLICY. Is eliminating corporate tax havens su

    UM. ELIMINATING TAX HAVENS IS BAD POLICY.

    Is eliminating corporate tax havens such a good idea?

    Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato says maybe not:

    —“We show that eliminating firms’ access to tax havens has unintended consequences for economic growth. We analyze a policy change that limited profit shifting for US multinationals, and show that the reform raised the effective cost of investing in the US. Exposed firms respond by reducing global investment and shifting investment abroad — which lowered their domestic investment by 38% — and by reducing domestic employment by 1.0 million jobs. We then show that the costs of eliminating tax havens are persistent and geographically concentrated, as more exposed local labor markets experience declines in employment and income growth for over 15 years. We discuss implications of these results for other efforts to limit profit shifting, including new taxes on intangible income in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.”—

    via Tyler Cowen

    Source date (UTC): 2018-07-25 08:45:00 UTC