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May 6th, 2017 at 10:18AM

Smokin’ Jay Cutler has decided to hang it up and head to the world of NFL color commentating over at Fox Sports. It’s been an amazing 5 years watching this meme consistently bubble back up into the sports pop culture conversation. Thanks so much to everyone for all the support and love!

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March 23rd, 2017 at 10:31AM

‪You can think accurately and effectively long before you can, so to speak, photograph it. — Keynes

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February 10th, 2017 at 1:20PM

One of my dirty little secret pleasures

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February 10th, 2017 at 12:17PM

“This book is chiefly addressed to my fellow economists.” –J. M. Keynes, Preface, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

“This is a political book.” –F. A. Hayek, Preface, The Road to Serfdom

People should read authors’ prefaces, for if they did, they would avoid frivolous disputes.

#economics #politics

February 8th, 2017 at 11:49AM

I have read many of the classics on various subjects. I create syllabi on index cards for reading and discussion groups on these subjects.

Here is my syllabus for economics.

1) Of the Balance of Trade, David Hume

2) Of the Jealousy of Trade, David Hume

3) The Theory of Moral Sentiments (selections), Adam Smith

4) The Wealth of Nations (selections), Adam Smith

5) Philosophical Manuscripts, Karl Marx

6) The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keynes

7) The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek

I have other subsidiary syllabi for economic discussion reading, but I shall not detain you longer.

February 2nd, 2017 at 5:58AM

centuriespast:

Cupid and Psyche
Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)
The Courtauld Gallery

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February 2nd, 2017 at 5:53AM

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What we’re reading

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February 2nd, 2017 at 5:18AM

The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician. — John Maynard Keynes

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January 1st, 2017 at 4:54AM

Dear 2017,

I resolve to be more skeptical, curmudgeonly, and cantankerous than ever. I ain’t dead yet, you bastard.

Sincerely,

Lynn

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December 31st, 2016 at 10:25AM

‪The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

#money

November 16th, 2016 at 10:03AM

‘Post-truth’ is the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year.

Post-truth:

“Circumstances in which facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotions and personal beliefs.”

Interesting. Aristotle in his Rhetoric calls appeals to facts, emotions, and personal beliefs the three methods of rhetorical argument.

November 14th, 2016 at 11:24AM

I’m in desperate need of a goof. I’m watching ‘The Lost World’, 1960. This might be as good as Friday night’s Godzilla festival.

November 14th, 2016 at 10:49AM

don56:

Rita Hayworth

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November 14th, 2016 at 10:35AM

The contempt of risk and the presumptuous hope of success, are in no period of life more active than at the age at which young people chuse their professions. — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

#WritingWell

November 11th, 2016 at 10:23AM

Bartolo Colon and R. A. Dickey both going to the Braves. Hook ‘Em Geezers