Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Was 1800 (approximately) A Pivotal Year In Human History? Robert Fogel, Francis Fukuyama, And Deirdre McCloskey All Seem To Think So

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Robert Fogel is a Nobel Prize Winning Economist. Here is something he said recently: "Technology rescued humankind from centuries of p...
Monday, September 28, 2026

People shift political expression to fit the room in small online group chats: Evidence from AI-simulated chat experiments

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By Cleone Mitsui and Yuta Kawamura . " Abstract When political talk surfaces in everyday chats, it puts people in a bind. Do they speak...
Saturday, September 26, 2026

Ridley: The forecaster’s paradox

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Why does nobody see new technology coming? By Matt Ridley .  He is a British writer who has a Ph. D. in zoology. My last post was an AI gene...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

A Conversation on the Future: Mary Shelley & Jules Verne

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Here is the prompt I gave to Claude AI : Write a discussion between Mary Shelley and Jules Verne on how advancements in science and technolo...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Poverty rates by age groups over time

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I posted about the recent Census Bureau poverty and income report last week. See The U.S. Poverty Rate Fell To 10.2%, The Lowest On Record; ...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

There Is A Black Market On Capitol Hill

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First posted in 2014. Yes, a black market in snacks. Pretty shocking. See Inside Capitol Hill's black market: Snacks by HELENA BOTTEMIL...
Saturday, September 19, 2026

A Dialogue Concerning Utopia (David Hume and Thomas More, imagined)

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This is a follow up to a recent post where I had Claude AI write a dialogue between Adam Smith and Thomas More discussing the book Utopia. S...
Thursday, September 17, 2026

The U.S. Poverty Rate Fell To 10.2%, The Lowest On Record; Median Income Also Reaches All-Time High While Inequality Unchanged

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Every year around this time the U.S. Census Bureau releases its report on incomes and poverty for the previous year. The first year we have ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Is it dangerous to say that entrepreneurs are heroes?

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Back in the early 1990s, I wrote a paper called "The Creative-Destroyers: Are Entrepreneurs Mythological Heroes?"  Unfortunately...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Sheep and Pins: Thomas More and Adam Smith on Utopia

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I asked Claude AI to write a dialogue between these two men discussing More's book Utopia . The image was created by Google's AI Gem...
Friday, September 11, 2026

The Seasonally Adjusted CPI Was Up 0.396% in August

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Here are the changes in the seasonally adjusted CPI for the six months ending in June:  Feb. 0.2670 March 0.8651% April 0.6400% May 0.4729% ...