Thoughts

An Archive of sketches developing ideas.

Density Is Not The Panacea Utopians Think It Is

What is it about an office that promotes so much illness? I know that offices where people interact frequently and move between locations lot, and have greater density are natural

thinking about density. In the office. In cities. In civilizations. “Human densi

http://www.capitalismv3.com/I’m thinking about density. In the office. In cities. In civilizations. http://www.capitalismv3.com/ “Human density is not the panacea our planners and utopians think it is. Density is toxicity, it decreases

Bruce Bartlett’s Optimism

Bartlett annoys me. I’m not sure why he annoys me so much. Perhaps it’s the political hack in him that I find offensive. Perhaps the pomposity? Perhaps the fact that

Pooling Information Is Laundering Information – Governments Are Money Launderers

What’s the difference between money laundering, general accounting principles as they are currently practiced, the process of taxation, the use of fiat money to create general liquidity, the practice of

You Do Not Engineer A Company. You Grow It.

This is a response to an article posted on An Entrepreneurial Mind. In that post the author, Dr Cornwall recommneds writeing a business plan. And the steps for doing so.

The State’s Moral Hazard, The States Immoral Mandate, and The Solution To Both

Rafe Champion on The Austrian/Keynesian Marriage from The Coordination Problem. …the problem of regime uncertainty which the Keynesians address by saying you will get all the certainty you need from

Laments For Attention On Environmental Economics

On Environmental Economics, the authors take note that Krugman appears to be reading their blog. They then state that the market will fail to protect the environment. Not that the

Time For Violence: Judicial Activism And The New Supreme Court Nominee

The difference between conservatives and socialists, is that conservatives believe that the government was constructed so that the legislature makes laws, and the court overturns those that are unconstitutional. That

Citi’s Prince Doesn’t Place Enough Blame On The Government

From Reuters, regarding today’s CITI testimony before congress: Prince’s infamous comment that his bank was “still dancing” even as the subprime crisis worsened came back to haunt him at the

Violence Is The Source Of Freedom

Prior to an important meeting of prominent advocates of freedom, Mises stated roughly, that: 1) Laissez-faire means ‘let the consumer decide’, it does not mean chaos prevails. I translate this

Hayek’s Renunciation Of Conservatism – A Failure Of His Own

Hayek is somewhat famous for his essay “Why I am not a conservative.” In that essay, he states that conservatism has no solution to offer us. But Hayek, along with

Two Misleading Infographics – One Religion of Secular Humanism

Timeplots posted an infographic on women’s participation in congress, which, all things being equal, has essentially remained flat. However, I take issue with the assumption that participation alone is a

Germany Should Exit The Euro And Return To the Mark

THe NYT Opinion page includes recommends Germany leave the Euro? (Referring to a posting elsewhere.) Yes, it makes sense. Earlier last month I wrote a series of letters and posts

Bad Policy In Democracy Is The Outcome Of War And Revolution Is The Outcome Of Bad Policy

The war period has been highly controversial, and unfortunately led to a radical minority taking control of our government, and that minority is creating policy that is against the will

The first problem with laws is that they do not die with the fools who wrote the

The first problem with laws is that they do not die with the fools who wrote them. Source date (UTC): 2010-03-20 00:28:24 UTC Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/10748682890

I was very proud of the people in our company today. It’s the best feeling in th

I was very proud of the people in our company today. It’s the best feeling in the world. Great work on great accounts for great clients by great people. Source

Making dinner. Starter of Local Chardonnay, olives, crackers, baked garlic and o

Making dinner. Starter of Local Chardonnay, olives, crackers, baked garlic and olive. Main of sunflower seed and orange encrusted Tilapia, with endive and tomato salad, and asparagus with oil and

An Understanding Of Greenspan

A more analytical understanding of Greenspan: First, If you read enough of Greenspan, he tried to master the processes by which businesses actually made decisions, to a degree that few

A Little Family History For those that don’t know family history, here is a litt

A Little Family History For those that don’t know family history, here is a little of it from memory: 1) our direct ancestors can be traced to the 1400’s. We

those that don’t know family history, here is some from memory: 1) our direct an

http://members.cox.net/edoolittle2/For those that don’t know family history, here is some from memory: 1) our direct ancestors can be traced to the 1400’s. It appears that our ancestors were part of