my girls are going to flip out over this
Prince Caspian is on its way to theaters!
Between Two Worlds has the first trailer.
Gavel bang to Between Two WorldsÂ
lest we fail to make the connection:
From the end of that LRC peice:
Over half of Iraq’s Chaldeans and Assyrians, ancient Catholic and Orthodox communities, some of whom speak the same language […]
rayor
Don’t go to LRC too often, but this opener hooked me:
On August 9th, 1945, two-thirds of Japan’s Catholics were annihilated.
The USG behavior in WWII was deplorable - warlike, even. Best way to avaoid that sort of behavior is […]
Marginal Rate of Homeschooling
FEE puts out a daily news bleg and Amature Economist must have gotten hold of it, with this 1998 piece by Don Boudreaux.
For homeschooling to be worthwhile the value of public education has to have a backward bending supply curve. In English: It sucks.
My kids are in public school. A really, really good […]
I Give Up
I’m gonna take my ball and go home, because the news doesn’t get much better than this list from Greg Mankiw:
+166,000 net new jobs were added in October. This is almost twice what the markets expected.
The unemployment rate is unchanged at 4.7%.
The US economy has created 1.68 M net new jobs over the […]
The Church Needs Econ
Thinking on the Margin had a discussion of the need for decent economic and legal understanding among pastors some time back. I could have written the same post word-for-word just replace the word “India” with “Durham,” not much of a stretch in some ways.
Teaching economics to religious leaders is something I would love to […]
Your Vote Counts
Web awards for best podcast are being voted on now here. Econtalk (Russ Robert’s weekly 1 hour has my vote. Next year perhaps failure to refrain will have gained a following!