Jeremy Siegel on the market.

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Josh Adams

Jeremy Siegel on Bear Stearns, the Fed rate cuts, and inflation risks. Via Greg Mankiw.

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View the MTV / MySpace Closing Arguments at MTV’s site

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Josh Adams

MySpace’s viewer wasn’t working for me anymore.  You can also view the videos at the MTV site.

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1841: Macaulay on Copyright. Kuro5hin story from six years back.

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Josh Adams

This is a speech made in 1841 in England regarding copyright extension. Relevant in 1841. Relevant in 2002. Relevant today.
At issue was whether to extend copyright to 60 years. Ultimately, they opted not to extend copyright. Now we have Disney-driven copyright laws and modern computer technology completely mired in handling copyright [...]

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Interrupting the Election Coverage: Alan Greenspan on Antitrust, circa 1961.

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Josh Adams

Copied from: http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/06-12-98.html
An essay delivered by Alan Greenspan on September 5, 1961, and published in Caplitalism: The Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand.
The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice’s Wonderland: everything seemingly is, yet apparently isn’t, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as [...]

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Statistically significant proof that the Russian Parliamentary elections were rigged.

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Josh Adams

Know much about correlation coefficients?
Here’s a graph of Vote Share by Turnout for Canada’s general election in 2006:

Here’s the same graph for Russian elections 2007:

There are better, less blatant ways of rigging elections.  It’ll be interesting to see what, if anything, comes of this news.  If these data are accurate, it’s nothing less than absolute [...]

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CNN/Youtube Republican Debates. Liveblogged.

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Josh Adams

The CNN/Youtube debates have begun, and we’ll be liveblogging the event. They’ve just introduced all of the candidates and there’s this awkward photo opportunity going on. Anyway, on to the liveblogging.
We’ll be in Freenode at #politicalinquirer.
First question
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If you become president of the united states, will you continue to aid and abet the [...]

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Frustrating when people misinterpret ’sticking to a platform’ as ‘hating poor people’

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Josh Adams

by Josh Adams
I was put on to this webcomic, overcompensating, by a programmer buddy. I was expecting something funny, but instead the first post (at the time of my reading - heck if I could find a permalink to it) got my blood boiling with the following:
All of this all might be true; I [...]

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Extremely important SCOTUS case that will affect American innovation

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Josh Adams

http://volokh.com/posts/1149009726.shtml
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on punitive damages. The case in question is against Phillip Morris, where their punitive damages were influenced in their Oregon case by the masses of Oregonians EVIL PHILLIP MORRIS has injured that WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE CASE.
This is entirely unacceptable for a judge to do. Punitive [...]

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