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We Shall Not Be Horsed About! On AI, Scarcity, and Obsolete Jobs \ stacker news
17+ hour, 55+ min ago (833+ words) Mr Albrecht, the "other" part of the duo that runs Economic Forces (I mostly read/quote from Josh Hendrickson, a money guy and pretty well-versed/respected Bitcoiner-ish), ran a great piece titled "You Are Not a Horse" yesterday. Not at…...
Is deflation really worse? \ stacker news
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (356+ words) The idea of deflation being worse than inflation always pops up as a gotcha when i hear economists in interviews, i remember once someone used it against me as an argument once when i was trying to bash an anti-bicoiner…...
Econ Disaster and Crises: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life \ stacker news
2+ week, 3+ day ago (179+ words) I keep thinking about that interview I did with Knut Svanholm last year (#1236935) Exactly. And bitcoin isn't in the stories and numbers out there about how the world is getting better, so looking out there I'm left with all the…...
fixed or variable home mortgage? \ stacker news
2+ week, 6+ day ago (148+ words) It's not an easy one to answer, but looking back, say, the last twenty or thirty years, which one would you say was better? Looking back, getting a fixed-rate 30-year mortgage below 3% is pretty hard to beat There's something to…...
I'm paying $500 out of pocket to rent a theater \ stacker news
3+ week, 2+ day ago (207+ words) Support our local event with a small contribution to our Geyser campaign. I'm paying $500 out of pocket to rent a theater to support my friend and fellow Bitcoin film maker, Mike (Bitcoin Shooter). Any sat amount helps, even just 1000 sats!...
Rise and Decline of the Marginal Revolution, By Tyler Cowen " Chapter 4 \ stacker news
3+ week, 3+ day ago (387+ words) This is a 4-part series " corresponding to the four parts of Cowen's "book" " where I share some extracts and comments from the book as I'm making my way through it. You can read Chapter 3 here. This last chapter is, probably,…...
Rise and Decline of the Marginal Revolution, By Tyler Cowen " Chapter 3 \ stacker news
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1279+ words) Tyler Cowen is an economist, educator, intellectual, and fellow member of the commentariat (though plenty more eloquent and prolific than me). He's out with a new book. .. which he describes as "*Not quite a book*" It has four chapters, is…...
Rise and Decline of the Marginal Revolution, By Tyler Cowen " Chapter 2 \ stacker news
3+ week, 5+ day ago (249+ words) This is a 4-part series " corresponding to the four parts of Cowen's "book" " where I share some extracts and comments from the book as I'm making my way through it. You can read Chapter 1 here. or here (p. 51): Cowen describes Jevons…...
Mini Pleb Economist: Orange Pilling My Class, Round 2 \ stacker news
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (177+ words) Last year, I wrote about my first time doing an entire orange pilling lecture in my economics class (#899199). Today, I just did it again. I didn't do it last semester because I was on a teaching sabbatical, but now I'm…...
Once the reserve currencies - did they see the end coming? \ stacker news
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (254+ words) I'm quite interested in this, as at the moment, at least in BTC and gold bug circles, the subject of the USDs reign coming to an end comes up a lot, peak 4th turning vibes. Then of course, there are many…...