Trigger warning: I’m stepping outside my econozone for some political commentary (don’t worry; I’ll make it quick). Sorry to do so, but I find this surprisingly naïve. At this late date, a lot of well-placed people still seem to miss President Trump’s sole motivation. I’m talking about these complaints from today’s papers that the President… Read more
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I don’t understand this graph
I’ll have a lot more to say about this later, but I don’t understand this figure from the front page of my WSJ this AM. The idea, which has some merit but is easily abused, is that the Trump admin wants to refine the way we measure trade flows–imports and exports–by accounting for re-exports, goods… Read more
Much needed comic relief, even more needed inspiration, and…corporate tax inversions.
This totally cracked me up…pretty brilliant video work, I thought. Next, this is just a beautiful story, beautifully told, of a business student at Georgetown U breaking through the barrier between himself and a janitor at the university. And it happened right here, in the shadow of our terribly divisive, mean-spirited politics. I read this… Read more
Are you Inky or Blotchy?
By now you’ve hopefully heard the amazing story of Inky, the escape-artist octopus from New Zealand. From this AMs WaPo: By the time the staff at New Zealand’s National Aquarium noticed that he was missing, telltale suction cup prints were the main clue to an easily solved mystery. Inky had said see ya to his tank-mate, slipped through a gap left… Read more
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News you might have missed today: Donald J. Trump, at a press conference: “Never mind. America’s already pretty damn great.” Bernie Sanders, later at that same presser: “Never mind. I’ve just got a job at Goldman Sachs.” National Restaurant Assoc: “Why just $15? We can do better than that!” Janet Yellen tweeted out: “Guess what?… Read more