Saturday, October 24, 2026

Harvard economics Professor Jason Furman has created a new website that tracks current economic data called Econvitals

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Furman has also been a chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. Click here to go to Econvitals . This is a great site if y...
Friday, October 23, 2026

Human drivers fight robotaxis in Washington, D.C.; a case of modern day Luddites?

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When I taught I used a book called The Economics Of Macro Issues by Daniel Benjamin and Roger LeRoy Miller. It mentioned Luddites, people ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

The Pyschology & Economics Of Decision Making Under Uncertainty (With Snoopy's Version From 1966)

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See You’re So Self-Controlling by MARIA KONNIKOVA. From the 11-16 NY Times. She has a Ph. D. in psychology from Columbia University and i...
Sunday, October 18, 2026

Businesses Are Using AI to Transform Work, Not Cut Jobs

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By Jaison R. Abel, Richard Deitz, Natalia Emanuel, and Nick Montalbano .They are all with The Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Excerpts: ...
Friday, October 16, 2026

An Imaginary Dialogue: Plato and Shakespeare on the Exile of the Poets

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I had an AI program write this a few weeks ago and I forgot which one. Here was the prompt: "Plato famously called for the expulsion of...
Wednesday, October 14, 2026

The Seasonally Adjusted CPI Was Up 0.649% in September

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Here are the changes in the seasonally adjusted CPI for the six months ending in Aug:  March 0.8651% April 0.6400% May 0.4729% June -0.4220%...