I came across in interesting sentence in the CBO analysis of Paul Ryan’s budget proposal: “The path for revenues as a percentage of GDP was specifiedRead More
Olympic Medals Over Time – Post Olympics Update
I’ve updated the charts below to include the results from the just completely London 2012 games. This was a very good Olympics for the USA.Read More
Why Money in Politics Matters
I often hear a lot of people complain about politicians buying votes – outspending their opponents to win elections. This pisses me off. Not theRead More
Olympic Medals Over Time
I put this chart together because after reading this BBC article I was interested in seeing the visual. Apart from the well known and discussed rise inRead More
The Private Sector
[DRAFT] Carpe Diem posted the following chart, which I’ve seen elsewhere. I find it interesting because of the strong rightward lean of that blog. So,Read More
Uncertainty vs Uncertainty
[DRAFT] “Uncertainty” plays a major role in the debate about what ails the US economy. Conservative bloggers, columnists and economists tend to emphasize the roleRead More
Rationality and Game Theory
People are very bad at “games”. What explains this? Well, they aren’t computers. But if people aren’t computers, what are they? How can they bestRead More
Health Care circa 1993
Before Obamacare was coined, and labeled as the source of all evils a very similar proposal was introduced in the Senate. This was a responseRead More