As a math major, law school grad, and economic policy wonk, I’m not sure which aspect of this stupidity by the New York Times horrifies me most. Is it: that people think we do tax at those rates, that some people think we should, that no editor caught the logical flaws before publication, or that [...]

The single greatest threat facing the United States is probably not what you think. In the Cold War, the greatest threat was that of an all-out nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Most people today would probably say the risk is a terrorist attack involving WMDs. In our worst nightmares, we tend to picture a [...]

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Sarah and I spent the last three days looking for and buying her a car (we only had the MINI, and she clearly needed something either now or soon after we start work). She was amazing: she had already done a simply incredible amount of market research to figure out which vehicles offered the features [...]