Shocking Unemployment Numbers
I don’t usually write about macro things. But a journalist asked me about the duration of unemployment, and I checked out how this recession compares to previous ones. Read More »
Bank Robbers' Hours
According to the FBI’s recently released second quarter Bank Crime statistics, bank robbers are most likely to rob a bank between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Friday; more robbers stated their demands verbally than by passing a note, and only 4 percent of incidents involved violence. The FBI also noted that, despite the recession, there were fewer bank robberies than last year. Read More »
Anti-Public Intellectuals, or Public Anti-Intellectuals?
Over at The Atlantic, Richard Posner writes:
I am concerned with the fact that academic economists, when they become either public officials or public intellectuals (like Krugman), leave behind their academic scruples.
In a later paragraph, he expands on his theme, turning to: Read More »
Why Is Phone Fidelity So Poor?
I am the first to say this and surely I will not be the last, but: isn’t it strange that with all the technological improvements in our lives in the past few decades, the audio fidelity of so many of our phone calls is so abysmal? Read More »
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