stickman's corral

[My new post at the Recon Hub, which I'll repost in full here...] Ashok Rao has a provocative suggestion for stopping the rampant po...

My old school friend and unashamed proponent of all things gold, Chris Becks, has left a few comments underneath this post in which I criti...

Amidst all this talk about US Republicans eyeing a return to the gold standard, something on my twitter feed earlier this week caught the ey...

This might not hold much interest beyond some old school friends reading this blog, but flicking through channels this morning I stumbled on...

When the facts, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?   - Apocryphally attributed to John Maynard Keynes A criticism often leveled at env...

... and negative (short-run) supply curves. Paul Krugman's recent column , which links the high price of gold to a disinflationary env...

Speaking of life in the oceans ... "Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went because they eat fi...

I went to a talk last night by Paul Collier . For those of you who don't know, Collier is a big cheese in the development studies world...

So I'm a few days late, but Monday was Columbus Day for our friends over States' side. I know this because Aguanomics mentioned it ...