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Feb 28, 2025

COMMENTARY: From rent seeking to gift giving

While rent seeking seems especially pronounced in recent years, the process is really inherent to human nature – or at least one side of our nature

Dec 8, 2022

Financial Forecasting the for the Future of 2023 With Economics and Tarot

This time of year, economists are invited to podiums to offer their prognostications for the coming year. Sometimes it’s a perverse holiday ritual. Not wanting to stuff stockings with coal […]

May 29, 2020

How the world could better handle black swan events in the future

Success in the modern world requires a clear and rehearsed national and global plan of action. Unfortunately, despite warnings from people like President G.W. Bush in 2005, Bill Gates in 2015 and many health experts around the world, our response to this black swan has been to bury our collective head in the sand.