Notices tagged with economics
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Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 02:06:54 EDT Matthew Davidson The power to define the conventional wisdom is awesome and terrible. "I don’t care who writes the nation’s laws — or crafts its advanced treaties — if I can write its economic textbooks." #q Paul Samuelson https://microblog.mjd.id.au/url/29766 #economics #notetoself -
Joshua Judson Rosen
The tooth fairy economy
Although the price of a tooth has risen faster than inflation since 1998, the average under-the-pillow payout is a fairly reliable indicator of the S&P 500…
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 03-Oct-2016 15:14:14 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen I worry that clever WILPF poster misses the more subtle and probably more important points about both #education and #war, and #economics: https://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/journal/politics/funding-schools-and-wars.html -
Erkan Yılmaz (erkanyilmaz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2014 15:33:22 EST Erkan Yılmaz I wonder if @mcnalu@micro.fragdev.com will give it another try "to explain his 1-year old formed views on #economics and #society to a few folk, but he kept hitting excuses such as that's too #simplistic or the world has changed since that clear #historical example or doing that would cause #inflation" ? http://micro.fragdev.com/conversation/392990 cc @question -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2013 14:35:06 EST Joshua Judson Rosen #bitcoin #economics comprehension #FAIL #0: "How can things have value without fiat pricing!?". Like people have never bought... *anything*? -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2013 09:11:39 EST Joshua Judson Rosen The most interesting thing about #bitcoin is how conversations about it reveal how confused people are about things like basic #economics.