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“Am I crazy, or is the commentariat ignoring our biggest economic threat?”
Michael Kinsley writes in The Atlantic that he’s worried about inflation. “Inflation turns life into Through the Looking-Glass: you have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place,” writes Kinsley reminding me of Paul Cantor’s “Hyperinflation and Hyperreality,” just one of the great essays in Literature and the Economics of Liberty. Join... »
Are prices going up or down?
Over at the Atlantic Daniel Indiviglio writes that the government’s current CPI numbers “should serve as a reminder that inflation isn’t what we should be worrying about at this time.” After all, the index rose only 0.2% in January and fell 0.1% if food and energy are stripped out, the first ngative reading... »
Doing business The Grateful Dead way
The Grateful Dead was famous for letting their fans tape their live shows. I remember being on a flight to Vegas from Seattle with a planeload of Deadheads and the guy next to me had a suitcase full of live concert tapes that he had recorded with each tape meticulously labeled with the... »
The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files
As noted here, “Ayn Rand’s newsletters used to end with a “Horror File” of monstrous but true quotations.” Along those lines, it’s time to collect some choice trademark horror stories in one place. I’ll update this from time to time; feel free to add suggestions in the comments. (Update: I have modified this post to... »
The Patent, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secret Horror Files
As noted here, “Ayn Rand’s newsletters used to end with a “Horror File” of monstrous but true quotations.” Along those lines, it’s time to collect some choice trademark horror stories in one place. I’ll update this from time to time; feel free to add suggestions in the comments. (Update: I have modified this post to... »
